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Australia’s property market: Key trends for landlords

The latest CoreLogic Housing Value Index report highlights crucial trends that landlords should be aware of as Australia’s property market continues to evolve. While opportunities remain, the current landscape calls for mindful management and an understanding of tenant challenges.

Shifts, challenges and silver linings

Australia’s housing market remains a mixed bag, with CoreLogic’s October data revealing subtle but telling shifts. Homeowners and prospective buyers will want to stay tuned as the market navigates affordability pressures and fluctuating values.

Why Tiny Homes Are a Big Deal

In recent years, you’ve probably come across TV shows, YouTube channels or reels on social media showcasing tiny homes that squeeze sustainability, simple living and affordability into an impossibly small package.

Big Smoke or Big on Lifestyle? 10 Big Benefits of Rural or Regional Living

Metropolitan living comes hand in hand with hustle and bustle – vibrant nightlife, seemingly endless eateries to explore and amenities easily on hand. But with an almost doubled cost of living compared to rural or regional living, keeping up with your city lifestyle often comes coupled with a few compromises.

Pet-friendly and Stylish? Your Home Can Be Both!

Household pets are a life-changing companion – they’re renowned stress busters, immunity boosters, exercise motivators, and cute to boot. While most of us are happy about welcoming a furry addition to our home, most of us would prefer it didn’t turn our aesthetically pleasing abodes into a pet den with fur-covered furniture and pet accessory chaos around every corner.

Try Before You Buy – the Key to Avoiding Buyer’s Remorse

Imagine a whimsical concept where you swap homes with strangers for a weekend, immersing yourself in the lifestyle and sampling all the local community offers. While it might be a light-hearted idea, it ticks one crucial aspect of purchasing a property: testing the waters before making a very significant investment.

Home values rise, but there’s good news for first-time buyers too

Spring has brought a subtle shift in Australia’s property market, with national home values edging up 0.4% in September 2024, according to CoreLogic’s Housing Value Index. While the numbers point to overall market strength, prospective first-home buyers might feel caught between opportunity and affordability.

What you need to know in today’s evolving market

Australia’s property market is shifting, and landlords are at the forefront of this evolution.

Feng Shui your home this spring

We’ve all experienced that slightly off feeling of walking into our own homes (or other people’s) when things are not in their place, the furniture arrangement doesn’t seem right, the curtains are drawn, blocking the glorious sunshine, or the energy just feels different. While you might not have put your finger on it then, that off feeling could be due to poor Feng Shui.

5 tips for picking produce like a pro

Remember the strange ritual performed by your parents to select the perfect fruits and vegetables at the shops?

10 tips to enjoy spring on a shoestring

While we might be shaking off the winter blues, shaking off the pinch of inflation, higher costs of living and all-around tightened purse strings may not be so easy – but that’s no reason to stay in your winter cocoon. There are plenty of opportunities for low-cost fun to be had both in your own backyard and in the local community.

A sweet pursuit – tips to become a backyard beekeeper

The humble honeybee is crucial to our global ecosystems; it’s a pint-sized environmental warrior responsible for pollinating around 30-35% of the world’s food crops.

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