For whatever reason, if you have to sell your property as soon as possible, don’t panic!
It’s easy to be overwhelmed but the best way forward is to set out a plan for selling and work through it step by step. Don’t be deterred if the word on the street is that ‘it’s a bad time to sell'; just keep the following tips in mind and selling your property quickly, and for a good price, will be achievable. Continue reading 5 Tips To Get The Best Price When Selling Your Property→
If you buy residential real estate, you will find that, beginning on March 1, the cooling-off rules have changed.
On that date, you will no longer lose your right to cool off just because you obtained advice from a lawyer before signing your contract. Continue reading Cooling off rules changed→
For the second time in two years Mudgee real estate agency The Property Shop has cleaned up at the Australasian Real Estate Results Achievement Awards.
Valuation notices from the Valuer Generals office have been issued in NSW over the past few weeks. These valuations are used to calculate council rates and land tax and in many cases the valuation may be excessive.
Property co-ownership offers an innovative home ownership solution that cuts the costs of buying a home in half (or even less) depending on the number of people involved.
OK; so we didn’t get the rate cut like we’d all hoped. However, there’s one certainty. Regardless of market ups and downs, we all still need somewhere to live, and sales will continue regardless.
Last year’s interest rate cuts might have given some buyers a bit more confidence. However, if we look at how consumers have generally been treating their cash – keeping it in their pockets, paying off their loans, or stashing it in savings – that would indicate people remain very cautious regardless. Buyers are still well and truly in the negotiation seat, so Sellers: there’s no room for complacency. Continue reading Seven tips to get the sale away→
Borrowing money against your house can be risky, check all your options.
For cash-strapped retirees whose wealth was decimated by the global financial crisis, a reverse mortgage may seem like an easy solution. But the loan product can balloon over time and wipe out much of the equity in their home. Continue reading Reverse mortgage can be a burden→
A DRAMATIC drop in inflation means there is now nothing to stop the Reserve Bank cutting interest rates when it meets for the first time this year on Tuesday week.
Australia’s official rate of inflation fell to 3.1 per cent for the year to December and to zero for the December quarter. It is the first time Australia has recorded no inflation in a quarter since December 2008. Continue reading Tumbling inflation makes rates cut firmer→
It’s taking a while but summer will arrive in all its hot gusto. Summer where it’s so hot you can’t sleep at night, and the flies are beating at your back door trying to find a cooler place to muck in.
Hot summer days might be great beach weather but if it’s turning your place into an oven, it’s time to cool things down.