STAMP duty on housing loans could be abolished after the Henry tax review, which is likely to recommend states be given a share of income tax to make up the difference. The most likely path to do this would be for the Commonwealth to give the states the ability to impose their own surcharge on [...]
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A Boost for the Housing Industry
Posted in Living in Perth, Realestate and Home Loans, tagged 1000 more visitors, a week, activity, and, attached, big demand, bringing down, builders, building, commercial, Commercial developments, compared, competitive priced, concerns, construction industry, debt, display homes, first home buyer homes, first time, first time home-buyer, growing concerns, growth, Home builders, home buyer, homebuyers, house, house and land package, houses, housing, increased, investing, land, last year, less financial risk, Living in Perth, low interest rate., lower, median house price., offering, perth, pick up, price, price down, price range, range, Real Estate and Home Loans, recession, residential, same period, single storey home, slowed down, sold, traffic, two storey home., WA on June 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The residential construction industry has been assisted by growth in the first time home-buyer activity along with the low interest rate. Home builders are offering some competitive priced housing, and in the last few months things have started to pick up as we see with the display homes traffic which has increased by around 1000 more visitors [...]
Green Built Homes Perth
Posted in Realestate and Home Loans, tagged 1/5th of the, Australia, building a new home, BUILT, businesses, carbon, change, changes, changing, comfortably, compact fluorescent lighting, cool, cooling, cooling costs, costs, cross ventilation, design, dream, eco-friendly homes, Electricity, entire range, environment, fast., footprint, global, global stage, Government's, Green build homes, heat, hip pocket., hippies, impact, individual carbon footprint, layout, legislations, less resources, light, lighting, low, low carbon, low carbon footprint., making, money, natural, negative, negative impact, new home, normal lighting., positioning, Real Estate and Home Loans, reduce heating, Resources, responsibilities, save, saves, solar passive, stage, staggering, sun, sun’s natural light, ventilation, world on May 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
With more people, not only in Australia but around the world becoming aware of our negative impact on the environment change is coming fast. There are increasing responsibilities for governments and businesses on a global stage Governments are changing legislations Businesses are making changes People may soon be responsible for their individual carbon footprint Green [...]
Millionaire Eileen Bond selling Peppermint Grove home
Posted in Local News, Realestate and Home Loans, tagged $6.35 million, 1500sqm block, adjoining room, Alan Bond, businessman, classic, common, common knowledge, downsizing, Eileen Bond, ex-wife, family, fantastic house, guesthouse, gymnasium, home, Italianate, Jody, knowledge, Leake St, Local News, market, memories, millionaire, moved, Ms Bond, Peppermint Grove, perth, plunge, plush, precious, Prominent, property prices, Real estate agent, Real Estate and Home Loans, residence, sell, selling, swimming pool, Sydney, test, The View St mansion, two-storey foyer, WA, waters., western, western suburbs, William Porteous on May 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
WHILE the plunge in western suburbs property prices is common knowledge, at least one prominent millionaire is willing to test the waters. Eileen Bond, ex-wife of businessman Alan Bond, wants to sell one of her plush Peppermint Grove homes. The View St mansion, which is on the market for $6.35 million, has been [...]
First-homebuyers urged to take mortgage help on board
Posted in Realestate and Home Loans, Uncategorized, tagged $380, 000, account, afford, allowing, assessing, based, bigger mortgage repayments, borrowers, borrowing, built-in, buyers, capacity, combined salary, concept, creating, criteria, Dennis Ward-Fay, developed, dollars, finance, first, first-homebuyers, four-bedroom, handle, help, home, home loan, home ownership, house, house and land, Housing Edge director, Housing Edge loan, income stream, income., innovative, land, land package, lending, lending criteria, loan, major banks, manager, mortgage, new approach, new home, one-bathroom home., one-bedroom, own, package, Part, payback, payback period, period, perth, popular, potential, property manager, qualify, Real Estate and Home Loans, reduce, reduces, rent, rent collection, rentable, rented, repayment period., repayments, rest, salary, saving thousands, sealed, secure, struggling, substantially, surplus, tenancy, tenants, traditional mortgage, two-bathroom, Uncategorized, valued on May 26, 2009 | 1 Comment »
An innovative house and land finance package developed in Perth could help more first-homebuyers to secure a home loan reduce their loan repayments. Based on a four-bedroom, two-bathroom home using part of the home as a rental, therfore allowing first-homebuyers to afford a buy, part of the home is sealed off from the rest, creating a rentable one-bedroom, one-bathroom home. [...]
Buliding your dream home
Posted in Realestate and Home Loans, tagged activity rooms, alfrescos, ‘informal, ‘public, changes occured, decades, design, Design house, dreamed, ensuites, FLOOR PLAN, floorplan, formal’, functional, house, kitchen, land, land and house package, last, life style, live, master bedrooms, needs, next, package, plan, pools, private’, Real Estate and Home Loans, rooms, series, sitting, step, suit, surprised, three, well-designed house on May 16, 2009 | 1 Comment »
When choosing your land and house package think carefully on how you live before choosing the right house for you. Make sure the floor plan fits the way you live. Design your house for you and your life style, you’d be surprised at how many houses don’t fit the way people really live. I remember when [...]
Trading places on the net
Posted in Realestate and Home Loans, tagged 80s trend home trading to, advice, agents, ALL news, approach, appropriate, assets, boats, bonds, breed, buyers, buyers a, conjunction, difficult, economic climate., exchanging, for properties, forces, forum, fresh, gems, gemstones, gold, houses, included, jewellery, joined, land, last week, launched, market, neg, negotiation, new, option, OrangeTee Real Estate, parties, properties, Real Estate and Home Loans, REIWA, researched, resurrect, seeking, sellers, settlement, settlement stages, stocks, support, today’s, tough, traders, Two WA businesses, valuation, vehicles on May 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Two WA businesses have joined forces to resurrect the 80s trend of home trading to give today’s buyers a new approach in the tough economic climate. Tradehomes.com.au launched last week, in conjunction with OrangeTee Real Estate, to offer a forum where sellers can advertise their properties and negotiate an equal trade for other property, [...]
Arthur Marshall selling his home in Mandaruh
Posted in Local News, Realestate and Home Loans, tagged $1.95 million, 10 years., airconditioning, alarm, architect, Arthur Marshall, back, balcony, bedrooms, best block, breathtaking water views., canal, canal home, Channel 9, city, dining, Dixie Marshall, double, dual water views, east, Elders Real Estate, ensuite, entertaining, estuary, every room, father, footy, former, grandkids walk, ground floor, guests, house, huge reserve, kick, kitchen, Local News, lock-up garage, Mandurah, master, move, newsreader, one-time, open-plan lounge, overlooking the canal., parking, politician, private jetty., Real Estate and Home Loans, second storey, selling, ship, sports commentator, T-junction, Tall windows, teenagers' retreat., tennis ace, three, TV, Uncategorized, Upstairs, visitor, walk-in robe, water view, west on May 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
FORMER politician and tennis ace Arthur Marshall is selling his Mandurah canal home to move back to the city. The one-time TV sports commentator and father of Channel 9 newsreader Dixie Marshall said his house of 10 years was “on the best block on the canal” because of its dual water views. “From a canal’s [...]
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