UPGRADERS LED OUT OF 2024
June 18, 2025
First-home buyers remained resilient through 2024, despite a challenging economic climate marked by high interest rates, a cost of-living crisis, low consumer sentiment and declining savings rates. As last year drew to a close, the number of buyers selling their homes to upgrade to larger and more expensive properties were outpacing first home buyers (FHBs), …more »
INDOOR PLANT ENVY
June 16, 2025
Indoor plants are superfashionable again! Bringing plants into the home is nothing new. We’ve been doing it for a millennium… for everything from functional purposes through to a symbol of status and wealth… and despite thousands of years of cultural change and technological progress, there’s still something fundamental in the human psyche that calls out …more »
Where is it cheaper to have a mortgage than rent?
June 1, 2025
Recent media coverage based on a joint study by Ubank and Cotality talked about Australian suburbs where making mortgage repayments was cheaper than paying rent. The study had found some 500 unit markets and 600 house markets across the country where servicing a mortgage would be the cheaper option than paying Australia’s median weekly rent …more »
Investing in property ownership
May 13, 2025
What would you do if you were unexpectedly given $100,000? Would you put it towards buying your first property, or towards buying an investment property? Would you put towards your home loan, or spend it on ‘other’? When the latest Mortgage Choice Home Loan Report sifted responses from 1,000 consumers nationally, Baby Boomers were the …more »
Honey, I shrunk the bathroom
April 7, 2025
Would you reduce the size of your bathroom, or the number of bathrooms you would expect to have in your home? What other space would you reduce in size or leave out of the floor plan to accommodate an additional bathroom? According to the Housing Industry Association (HIA) last year, the size of a typical …more »
Designers, Stylists, Decorators: What’s the Difference?
April 7, 2025
Professionals such as property stylists, interior decorators, and interior designers all play crucial roles when it comes to enhancing aesthetics and functionality of spaces in and outside the home. While their work may overlap to some extent, each role has distinct responsibilities and expertise. This may help you understand who to hire for your specific …more »
Mighty Millenials
April 7, 2025
It’s 2025 and we are looking at a future driven by Millennials, a generation of people born somewhere between 1981–1996, that is often misunderstood and stereotyped as entitled or lazy. The Millennials – or Generation Y – have grown up during a time of significant technological and economic changes, which have influenced their values and …more »
Good Bones & Old Bones
April 3, 2025
Got your eye on a fixer-upper? When you set out to buy a property that could use a little, or a lot of, work, make sure you are truly prepared to take on the task. Taking on a fixer-upper can be exciting, especially if you have a vision, are creative and have DIY coursing through …more »