15 May 2023
NSW First Home Buyer Grants & Schemes 2023 – helping you unlock your first home
First Home Buyers can now choose between paying stamp duty or a smaller annual property tax. If you’re an eligible first home buyer looking for a property up to $1.5m, First Home Buyer Choice can lower the upfront costs of your purchase, fast tracking your way to a new home.
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14 Feb 2023
The benefits of buying off-the-plan in NSW
From attractive pricing and tax benefits to customisation of your new property, there are many benefits to buying off-the-plan for both homeowners and investors.
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18 Nov 2022
What you need to know about the NEW stamp duty reforms
The NSW Government has announced that First Home Buyers will now be able to choose between paying an annual land tax or an upfront stamp duty on their property.
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26 Apr 2022
First Home Buyers Schemes NSW | Updates Worth Noting
It is important to stay up to date with what benefits the government offer to you as a first home buyer...
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24 Nov 2021
Stamp Duty Exemptions Explained
Many people don’t quite realise how much of a considerable cost stamp duty can be when purchasing a property. However, it is critical to have an understanding of all the potential costs you could be facing when buying a property.
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22 Nov 2021
The Signalling of Melbourne’s Official Return
Close to 90% vaccination rates, international borders opening, an International Student Arrival Plan and a further easing of restrictions all signal the official return of Melbourne to its pre-pandemic glory.
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22 Nov 2021
Partner with Colliers Residential Victoria - The CBD Apartment Experts
Melbourne’s apartment experts, Colliers Residential Victoria, in support of City of Melbourne and Realestate.com.au, offer you exclusive access to the CBD’s best apartments so you can Live Local in Melbourne with $0 Stamp Duty and apartments from $500,000.
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5 Aug 2021
Yes, we are in lockdown – however, you should buy now.
Taking a look back at the last lockdown Sydney experienced, it is safe to say the property market was in a very different state.
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2 Jul 2021
A beginner’s guide to reading a floor plan
When you’re in the market for a new apartment, floor plans are one of the most useful indicators of whether or not you’ve found your dream home.
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30 Jun 2021
Buying an apartment? Here's what you need to know.
There’s a lot to love about apartment living. In Australia, more and more people are choosing to live in apartments over houses.
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15 Jun 2021
A helping hand for first home buyers
As demand and prices have surged across residential markets, for most first-time buyers the headlines must look daunting. All sorts of homes from top-end mansions to renovation wrecks, have been attracting sky-high prices as auction crowds surge in numbers before our very eyes.
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1 Dec 2020
First Home Buyers Guide
The Colliers First Home Buyers Guide aims to explain the home buying process, so that you can enter the market with confidences, especially in the current climate. In addition we have also outlined recent changes to the property market and first home buyer incentives.
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26 Nov 2020
Residential Insights: Stamp Duty Reform - Can Go Further
With NSW taking the lead in what has been described as ‘the biggest Tax Reform since Federation’ residential Stamp Duty is in for a shake-up in favour of a proposed annual Land Tax.
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29 Oct 2020
Pointers for Today's Coronavirus Property Market
As we adjust to the impacts of Covid-19 we’ve seen a number of wide ranging trends in the "coronavirus property market." While activity has bounced around, people are still buying and selling homes, new homes are being built and new apartment projects are at varied stages of development. However, there are a few notable trends.
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20 Aug 2020
The Settlement Process
People are always on the move, and as the city absorbs new apartments and owners and tenants move into new buildings, I wanted to visit what can be expected when it comes to the final stage of a purchase.
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20 Aug 2020
Storage Solutions When Downsizing from a House to an Apartment
With the kids grown up and out of the family home, many couples are now looking to downsize to cosy apartments with less space, requiring smart thinking when it comes to storage.
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20 Aug 2020
Top Tips For Buying Off-The-Plan Property
Buying off-the-plan property (OTP) can be an easy process. It’s a great way to buy into some of the most in demand areas and even for the first time buyer, buying OTP has lots of advantages.
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30 Jul 2020
Buying vs Renting A Home Examined
Should you buy or rent? It’s a question that often occupies the waking hours and the sometimes-sleepless nights, of many people looking for a home.
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30 Jul 2020
First Home Buyer Stamp Duty Exemptions for Up to $800,000
The NSW State Government has announced that First Home Buyer Stamp Duty exemptions will be available for new homes up to $800,000.
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30 Jul 2020
How to Read and Use an Apartment Floor Plan
If you’re in the market looking for a new apartment, floor plans are easily the most basic and important tool you’ll need. For an off-the-plan purchase reading and understanding the floor plan is essential. For established apartments, they are also valuable as access may be limited.
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17 Jun 2020
Should I Buy An Apartment Now? That's a Big Question...and Here Are Some Answers
"Should I buy an apartment now?" In the course of my career, this is a question I’ve been asked so many times I’ve lost count. However, as you might expect it’s also a question I’m asked even more frequently when markets look unsettled.
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11 Jun 2020
Canberra's Apartment Market - Reviewing Park Avenue To Understand the Evolving 'Civic'
Like most other modern-day urban markets across Australia and the globe, Canberra residents and investors share a strong attraction to the appeal of CBD living. This post looks at one development, Park Avenue, helping to wrap-up my review of three different Canberra apartment markets.
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9 Jun 2020
Melbourne's Apartment Marketing - Super-Towers & Paris Chic
Like its sister-market Sydney’s CBD, the Melbourne City apartment market while perhaps looking somewhat different in terms of building style, offers remarkable opportunity and different pockets of growth and variety
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13 May 2020
Exploring North Sydney, Sydney's Most Progressive Real Estate Market
The North Sydney real estate market is proving to be one of Sydney’s most progressive, with rapid changes occurring in the last 5 years to the precinct’s skyline.
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19 Mar 2020
Sydney's Apartment Market - Where to Now
By any measure it’s an unusual and easily a historic week and circumstance we find ourselves in as we all confront the Coronavirus. This may well be a ‘black-swan’ event for the world and for our economy and that will include many questions concerning the housing and wider property market.
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11 Mar 2020
Sydney's Apartment Market - One size no-longer fits all cont.
Having earlier given a brief overview of the apartment markets in the Sydney CBD, Northern Beaches and Eastern suburbs, this week I’m turning my attention to the interesting diversity of the North Shore, the Inner-West, Parramatta and Penrith.
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27 Feb 2020
Newcastle Housing Market Highlights
Recently in one of our major newspapers there was a headline that read: ‘House prices up $300,000 in areas leading Sydney rebound’. Just 12-months earlier another headline read: ‘Melbourne and Sydney house prices plunge further in January’.
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25 Feb 2020
Sydney's Apartment Market - One Size No Longer Fits All
Apartments have been a part of Sydney’s housing fabric for at least 120 years and as might be expected architectural styles, locations and values have been constantly changing and evolving.
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15 Jan 2020
Rent-vesting could be key to the market for first home buyers
First home buyers in Sydney can look to ‘rent-vesting’ as a way to enter the market, while buying conditions are better than ever.
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11 Dec 2019
Rent-vesting could be key to the market for first home buyers
First home buyers in Sydney can look to ‘rent-vesting’ as a way to enter the market, while buying conditions are better than ever.
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