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8 expenses to budget for before you buy a home

An outline of the eight major additional expenses – on top of your deposit – that you’ll need to budget for.

Renovating tips for a family friendly bathroom

A bathroom makes a big impact on the value of your house. Here’s how to make it family friendly and stylish.

Top trends for living rooms in 2019

Living room trends in 2019 are all about healthy living and wellbeing, with a focus on nature, family connection, and light and space to counter-balance our synthetic and digital world. While binge-watching Netflix and talking to Google may be our new favourite pastimes, we want to do it in spaces that make us feel happy,…
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Autumn leaves

Seven top tips for an Autumn sale

The property market’s most motivated buyers come out for autumn. The tyre-kickers who love the spring and summer selling seasons are gone by the time evenings become cooler and the leaves begin to turn. Autumn buyers have usually thought carefully about their future over the summer months, so they’re serious and focused but tend to…
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How to hold the perfect open house

Creating the perfect open house or open for inspection requires commitment, eye for detail and a willingness to put in the hard work. Short-cuts will only hurt the chances of finding a buyer and getting your desired price. There are a handful of little traps that are easily avoided but by falling into them you…
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weatherboard house in Balmain

7 ways to smarten your weatherboard

Here’s a quick checklist of the ways you can maximise the value of your weatherboard home.

4 hot apartment design trends

Here’s four hot new trends in apartment design features to help you buy or sell your next apartment.

5 loan hoops you will need to jump through

The five standards you’ll need to meet to get a home loan.

Why you should be careful with interest-only loans

Is an interest-only loan right for you? New banking regulations mean you need to be careful.

How to inspect an apartment

Searching for the right property can be a tiring process if it stretches from weeks into months. Cutting corners on how thoroughly you look at it is understandable as a sense of despair sets in. But that’s a grave error. If an apartment grabs your attention, then double-down on a basic inspection before you get…
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