Category : Real Estate / Property

The lot beside your house in Sunnybank, Robertson or Bracken Ridge sat under one set of rules on Thursday. By Friday morning it sat under another. The council’s More Homes, Sooner low-medium density residential design amendment took effect on 18 September 2026 as one of the four amendments in Brisbane City Plan Amendment v37.00/2026, and […]Read More

How long can a permanent resident spend in India before an Australian state government decides they are foreign? In Queensland the question barely arises. In New South Wales it does, and the line falls well short of six months. The difference sits inside the Queensland land tax rules on absentees, a page most households never […]Read More

Saving a 20 per cent deposit while paying someone else’s mortgage in rent is the arithmetic that keeps most first home buyers exactly where they are. A Queensland government scheme cuts the deposit a buyer needs to 2 per cent. For almost every household reading this, the queue for it has already closed. The Boost […]Read More

Seven weeks ago Queensland changed who is allowed to buy a first home without paying transfer duty, and it did so on a government web page rather than at a press conference. The first home buyer Queensland stamp duty concession now carries a residency test. Hold a 482, a 485 or a student visa and […]Read More

The contract is signed, the deposit has cleared, and the block has a number. On a Saturday morning a family can stand on it and pace out where the kitchen will go. What a household in one catchment of Austral cannot do right now is obtain the single piece of paper that turns that dirt […]Read More

A family in Kellyville and a family in Rouse Hill live one metro stop apart. One of them can have a six storey apartment block approved 300 metres from the front door. The other cannot, and nothing about the street, the house or the title explains the difference. The difference is a list published by […]Read More

A wedding in January. A death in the family in March that nobody planned for. A father who cannot be left on his own in April, then May, then June. By the time the family lands back at Sydney Airport in July, they have been out of Australia for close to half the year, and […]Read More