General

This week the Banking Royal Commission will assuredly take most of the available media oxygen and attention and so while the dust settles, I’m taking a much more longer-term view …
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Every homebuyer in today’s market has two very big concerns, finance and quality. This week I will focus on quality as this continues a central theme from my market overview …
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Project Agenda has been on holidays and we will return to our full format next week as well as introducing some new features including a fresh round of ‘insider’ and …
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Over the next three weeks I’m going to contemplate how the local residential market might unfold during 2019.

Not so much with hard-nosed predictions, as predictions can be dangerous, instead …
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New Laws for off-the-plan buyers

NSW home buyers purchasing residential properties off-the-plan will benefit from stronger protections under new laws endorsed by Parliament this week. The changes to the Conveyancing …
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This week I’m picking up with the second part of my look back over the events of 2018 and making some comparisons with what predictions were made this time last …
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None of us need reminding that 2018 will soon be assigned to history at a time when the residential property market looks at best choppy and at worst chaotic. From …
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Mixed- Use Developments

Mixed-use developments are one of the most popular forms of adding higher density to urban areas and as population pressures continue, the design and planning of mixed-use …
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The world is heading for a population of 10-billion estimated by 2050, so how will we manage? That’s a topic I saw on TED, then I also noticed another interesting …
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Best Architectural Projects

Across a survey of international architects Metropolis Magazine has published a list of the sixteen best architectural projects of the 21st Century (so far). These are projects …
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