With the First Home Owner Grant Boost officially halving to $3,500 from October 1st and then disappearing altogether by the end of 2009, it appears that the stimulus the federal government was aiming for has achieved its goal. Figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics show that the Rudd Government’s National Building Economic Stimulus Plan [...]

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Welcome to House Search News May-June 2009
A HOUSING MARKET IN UNCERTAIN TIMES
Whilst first home buyers are still taking advantage of the extended grant boosts around Australia, due to be phased out gradually to the end of 2009, investor interest has also picked up, with some viewing the current historically low interest rates and softening prices as [...]

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Welcome to House Search News March-April 2009
PROPERTY CYCLE OVERDRIVE?
First home buyers propping up the lower end of the housing market, cash-strapped executives taking losses on multi million dollar properties, rents rising, interest rates falling to record lows…. it all appears to be a property cycle in overdrive, or is it?
By it’s very nature, the property [...]

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Welcome to House Search News January - February 2009
HOW LOW CAN THEY GO?
Is the question on many home owner and investors lips at the moment, with interest rates now dropping to the lowest in some 4 decades.  With more cuts forecast, and an economy seemingly on the brink of recession, it certainly makes for unpredictable [...]

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Welcome to House Search News for November/December  2008
CHANGING TIMES…
With yet another interest rate drop, which has seen rates now drop by 40% since October, increased govt stimulation spending and sharemarket jitters, Australian investors certainly are in a period of changing times.
Though first home buyers are in a better postion than in previous years, rising rents [...]

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