real estate news (Page 68)

What the median house price in each of Australia’s capital cities gets you around the world

Uber driver

A real estate agent who indecently assaulted a boy while working as an Uber driver has lost his battle against deportation to India.

Auction

Who tripped the housing boom?

remote bach

Most remote bach is ‘calling’

Ron Sang

Ron Sang-designed house and NZ contemporary art collection for sale

WATCH: Sydney Housing Market Update | March 2019

WATCH: Australian Housing Market & Economy – March Update

Lenders cut rates and boost terms to test property bounce

Man charged over alleged multi-million-dollar bogus property investment scheme

Female agents target glass ceiling

Australian charities set to be $3.3 million richer after Greenwich deceased estate sells

landlords

Landlord’s call to scare tenants into not voting for Labour

real estate agent

Cash-strapped agent censured

Cottage sold for millions just to be destroyed

container house

‘Life Box’ container house sold at auction, raising money for cancer charity

Property mogul

INTERNATIONAL: Property mogul Harry Macklowe recently wed his long-term mistress — and didn’t miss the chance to rub it in his ex-wife’s face.

NAR

INTERNATIONAL: NAR campaign distinguishes Realtors from other real estate agents

Property market downturn could have an upside for first-home buyers

Reserve Bank

Agents see little evidence of Phillip Lowe’s property market comeback

Superestate uses super contributions to invest in the property market

sex offender

Property manager told ‘predatory’ sex offender wasn’t a risk to anyone

corelogic

There’s still some heat left in the NZ property market, but not in Auckland

‘We would never say we do Australian property alone’: Domain hits out at REA in campaign

Sydney is still number one

Tenancy Tribunal

Tenants stop landlords building garage

nasty house

‘Humiliated’ in the ‘nasty house’

Household Debt

NZ’s household debt levels are reaching terrifying heights

Phoenix company for Arrow project

Industry body calls for improvement to real estate agent training

In race for global city status, Sydney resting on natural laurels, Brisbane fast catching up

Gretel Packer’s $22m penthouse bid

Wallace Development

Here come the houses

apartments

Wynyard Quarter: Multi-million dollar apartments launched

Five Australian cities in top 50 worldwide for residential price growth: Knight Frank

capital gain

People are pocketing $250k on average when they sell a house

Backlog of unsold homes reaches decade high

Retirees marooned as banks retreat on reverse mortgages

WATCH: Why falling prices aren’t making homes more affordable

Australia’s economy has just slid into a recession on a per-capita basis

Australia’s economy

Australia’s economy has just slid into a recession on a per-capita basis

Brisbane’s most expensive homes: The top properties of 2018

Queenstown development

Buyers might get a bargain at Queenstown development

Reserve Bank says population growth, slow building to blame for property boom and bust

Billionaire developer’s ultimatum to government

Trade Me website

Trade Me: More opportunity to poach print advertising

quake-prone buildings

Concern over quake-prone buildings

Melbourne market slowdown hits vendors, spreads to government

What the median house price gets you in each Australian capital city

CoreLogic

Homeowners pocket median resale profit of $195K each last quarter: a 20 year high.

Alexandra Park Village

Apartment buyers in limbo

Twitter

Property TWEETS of the week (March 5, 2019)

Court told former cop shot in Point Cook is still on life support

‘Train smash for the auction system’

Controversial advert helps sell Sydney land in three days

Ebert

Ebert subbies miss out on money

Piha

Most-viewed house on Trade Me

Jennifer Lopez

CELEBRITY: Jennifer Lopez and Alex Rodriguez buy Jeremy Piven’s Malibu pad

CELEBRITY: Michael Jackson’s Neverland Ranch relisted with almost $100 million discount

Cambridge

Cambridge dairy farmer fined record $131,840 for effluent discharges

Nobilo

Waimarie property still listed while Nobilo seeks to refinance

churches for sale

8 former churches for sale

apartments

Application lodged to transform Lower Hutt’s Avalon Tower into apartments

meth

Tenant to pay $4300 for meth contamination

Property downturn is worse than it looks

The winners from Australia’s property market slump

WATCH: Australian real estate market shows mixed signs

55 Courageous Court, Newport

AUSTRALIA: Incomplete house the hottest in the country right now

Stand-offs between Melbourne buyers and sellers

Auckland Property

Auckland: A buyer’s market

Sydney real estate struggling to cope with city’s property slump

“Ugliest” house in best street

Family could turn $331K into $8.8m

Billionaire

The fence the billionaire built

Property price downturn extending beyond Sydney and Melbourne

Real Estate Agents

Glamour of real estate wheeling and dealing fades, disenchanted agents on job hunt

Property investors

Property investors, not first home buyers, snap up affordable homes: NZIER

property investment

Man charged over alleged bogus property investment scheme

Arrow International

Arrow: ‘We had no choice’

Bella Vista Homes

51 charges filed over Bella Vista Homes

Former Dee Why real estate agent avoids jail for stealing $31,000 from clients

The chance encounter that sparked a property purchase within three months

Masterton

50 new houses for Masterton

NZ property market

NZ property market ‘not like Australia’

Palmerston North police station

Derelict old Palmerston North police station building bought by Rangitāne

Arrow International

Chows eye up construction firm Arrow International after administrators take over

illegal containers

$12,000 fine for illegal containers

INTERNATIONAL: Zillow as mortgage lender: Real estate giant going ‘further down the funnel’ of buying a house

Agent commissions rise despite disruptor models, cooling conditions

top independent agents

Australasia’s top independent agents recognised

Real estate agents to dob in dodgy Chinese buyers under Labor government

Auckland tenant

$127 for cold rental

landlord

I was a landlord, and I hated the person it made me become

Queenstown council

Queenstown council buys prominent multi-million dollar property

Ex-REIA president Malcolm Gunning and wife face charges over agency trust accounts

land deal

Iwi lock in land deal

Landlords

Landlords crying victim

WATCH: Opal Tower report finds “construction issues”

’People aren’t scared of $30m’: Vaucluse trophy shoots for record

Real estate ‘click bait’ is great for news but bad for the economy

Finalists revealed for the 2019 REIA awards

Where Melbourne sellers are cutting prices the most

INTERNATIONAL: Elon Musk sells incredible LA spaceship-shaped mansion with giant ‘moat’ swimming pool

Elon Musk

INTERNATIONAL: Elon Musk sells incredible LA spaceship-shaped mansion with giant ‘moat’ swimming pool

properties on the market

AUSTRALIA: There are more properties on the market now than at any time since 2012 — and no-one’s buying

There are more properties on the market now than at any time since 2012 — and no-one’s buying

Queenstown Lakes Community Housing Trust

Cut price Queenstown homes

Property investor

Property investor: I’ve paid more in tax in 20 years than you’ll earn your lifetime

Property investment

How Kiwis get rich

Home values still vulnerable, but early signs of stability start to show

real estate agent Aaron Drever

Disgraced Auckland real estate agent Aaron Drever sets new censures record

Dame Jenny Shipley

Shipley to pay $6m

office block

Derelict office block to get new life

Hills Shire, Sydney estate agent Sid Morgan shot at Point Cook

Saint Kentigern

Exclusive school for sale

Welcome to California: Glen Coutinho

WATCH: International – Inside China’s ghost cities

REINZ calls for financial support for landlords to help meet the healthy homes standards

capital gains tax

WATCH: Would a capital gains tax ease house prices

property empire

INTERNATIONAL: Man has £2.8m property empire – thanks to his commute to work

First home buyer activity might be coming to an end, report finds

Investors rush to Gold Coast property market ahead of federal election

Rewi Thompson

Rewi Thompson’s house saved

Krissy Marsh tries her luck at auction