5 Tips To Get The Best Price When Selling Your Property

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

The Property Shop sweeps Australasian awards

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.

Presented at the Sydney Convention Centre on Monday, The Property Shop was crowned Australasian Rural Agency of the Year for the second consecutive time. Continue reading The Property Shop sweeps Australasian awards

Ready, Set, Object! It’s land tax time again.

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.

Unfortunately, it’s an all too common occurrence where you hear of overvalued land resulting in excessive Land Tax Assessments. Continue reading Ready, Set, Object! It’s land tax time again.

Seven tips to get the sale away

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

Tumbling inflation makes rates cut firmer

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

Tips to cool down the house

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.

Here’s ten ideas that could help. Continue reading Tips to cool down the house

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