Hobart home values remain steady. Picture: Supplied To buy a typical Hobart house, buyers need a little more bang in their budget than they did last year. PropTrack’s April Home Price Index, released Thursday, shows a median value house will cost purchasers $715,000 — that’s a 2.58 per cent annual increase. The story is the […]
The home at 20 Sandalwood St, Nightcliff, sold for $1.11m in April. Picture: realestate.com.au Darwin homes prices have hit a new peak in April with new data revealing the house market significantly outperformed the unit market in the past 12 months. The latest PropTrack Home Price Index showed the median dwelling price in Darwin increased […]
Home values are up across most capital cities, REA Group’s latest Home Price Index shows, with the biggest winners being property owners in the City of Churches. Adelaide outperformed the rest of the nation, with the report showing its metropolitan median dwelling price had climbed 10.77 per cent to a new peak of $804,000 over […]
The hunt is on for a buyer to finish a half renovated character home that offers an unusual entry point into a dress circle Geelong position. While the beautifully restored Victorian facade at 51 Bourke Cres, Geelong, looks the goods, behind the scenes there’s still much work to do. The vendor has completed the front […]
Rising home prices seem to be an inevitability in 2025 amid rising interest rates and policies to make it easier for first-home buyers to get into the market. Homebuyers can expect higher Geelong house prices in 2025, no matter which party wins government on May 3. PropTrack senior economist Anne Flaherty said with both major […]
Greystar Real Estate Partners, the nation’s largest residential property management firm, is facing a class action lawsuit alleging it imposed illegal and excessive fees on tenants across California. The lawsuit, filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California, accuses Greystar of deceptive business practices by charging tenants mandatory fees beyond advertised […]
The Corporation for National and Community Service, better known as AmeriCorps, was a target of the U.S. DOGE Service earlier this month as most staff have been placed on administrative leave, according to recent reporting by the Associated Press (AP). The move — seen by roughly two dozen states as an attempt to shut the […]
The Secretary of U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is open to withholding federal funding from major American cities that fail to show progress in dealing with homelessness issues. “That may be a good idea,” Turner told conservative radio show host Ari Hoffman in an interview Wednesday. “We have to take inventory of […]
A former escrow officer at a McAllen, Texas-based title insurance company has been sentenced to two years in federal prison for orchestrating a complex wire fraud scheme that defrauded homebuyers and mortgage lenders of more than $350,000, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced. Mayela Saby Cantu, 55, pleaded guilty in December to conspiracy to […]
United Wholesale Mortgage (UWM) is facing a class-action lawsuit alleging misuse and misallocation of assets within its 401(k) retirement plan. The company has called the suit a “baseless claim.” Filed Monday in a Michigan district court, the lawsuit accuses UWM of violating the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) by using plan assets to reduce […]
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