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Pink, among the boldest, and most feminine shades in our repertoire is alarming for most. Outside of an 8 year old’s fairy bedroom is seldom explored as an option for your home and rarely considered as a hero for your living space. Even the most polarising of shades can bring a level of sophistication to your...

Your outdoor entertaining area can be the hub of your home, or your own private sanctuary. The most beautiful outdoor areas fuse the two to create a space that is, warm, inviting and peaceful simultaneously. When creating your outdoor space you rarely look past good seating, a barbecue, and outdoor dining...

Pakenham is the hottest selling suburb across Australia’s capital cities with the highest number of property sales in the past twelve months according to recent data from CoreLogic.  Pakenham in Victoria is located 52.9 km south east of Melbourne on the edge of the West Gippsland region. Pakenham sold a total of...

This week’s blog takes a look at the performance of dwelling values across the most populous coastal housing markets nationwide. While overall regional housing markets have recorded greater value growth over the past year (+2.2%) than the combined capital cities (-1.6%), value growth in regional markets is slowing....

As the housing market transitions from one in which values are growing to one where values are declining, in this week’s blog we take a look at the suburbs that have experienced the greatest change in listings over the year. With dwelling values now falling, led by a rapid slowdown in the Sydney and Melbourne...

Dwelling values are falling and fewer transactions are occurring across the housing market which should create alarms for market participants such as agent, lenders, state governments and brokers that are reliant on housing turnover. Despite dwelling values having only recently started to fall, the number of...

Each home is different, you may have a stunning hallway that is quite narrow or a wide wall upon entry, even a small sitting room. There is so much variety in this space it’s often hard to design it in a way you feel best compliments your home. There are however three things you should always work to...

Your outdoor entertaining area can be the hub of your home or your own private sanctuary. The most beautiful outdoor areas fuse the two to create a space that is warm, inviting and peaceful simultaneously. When creating your outdoor space you rarely look past good seating, a barbecue and outdoor dining...

I can recite countless studies that tell you bringing the outdoors in purifies the air, increases concentration and is just all round good for you. It’s also aesthetically beautiful as well! Now I can’t promise that the ideas below will deliver all that goodness (I know one of them will), but if you’re historically the...

With the latest release of lending finance data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics, we can now analyse the value of mortgage lending across each of the states and territories up until March 2018.  Housing finance data pointed to a slowing of demand with falls over the month in both investment and owner...