Victoria’s peak body for real estate agents is shaping up for a fight against the Government over reforms to allow renters greater rights to own pets, saying investors are already pulling out of the market ahead of the changes. The Government’s proposed reforms to state rental tenancy rules include making it harder for landlords to…
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The NSW government has announced that expert independent planning panels will be mandatory in Sydney and Wollongong for certain developments, which some see as good news while others see as “eroding local democracy”.
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First home buyers will be helped into the property market with more than $1 billion of stamp duty concessions and measures to level the playing field with investors under reforms unveiled by Premier Gladys Berejiklian to tackle housing affordability.
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SURE, Scott Morrison has delivered his second Budget declaring there are “better days ahead”, but here is what it actually means for you.
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Over 70% of Home Owners in NSW in the Dark about NSW Government’s Land Titles Asset Privatisation. More than 80% oppose move, urging the new NSW Premier to abandon plans immediately.
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The Turnbull government has reportedly decided that housing affordability is one of its big issues for 2017. And you can understand the issue’s appeal. After all, it’s a subject a good deal of Australia is very reasonably obsessed with.
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The value of land in one Sydney suburb increased by almost 40 per cent last financial year, as the pulsating property market and the rezoning of land drove up values across the city and state.
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NSW Premier Mike Baird has cited family pressures, the need to “refresh” the government for the next election and his record of economic, infrastructure and other achievements in explaining his shock exit from politics.
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The Baird government is charging ahead with its land titles registry sell-off, despite having no support from peak professional bodies across the state’s property sector.
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If the regulators introduce a pet-bond, why not balance this by also introducing: a child-bond, cooking bond and should we also ask for a party-bond?
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