Perth house prices remain below the levels of 2010. There’s also a large number of bigger blocks with sub-division potential, so there’s something here for everyone! Major projects, including the $600 million Northern Beaches Hospital, are generating jobs. So going off financial return isn’t the best way to measure success in 2019. There will be further growth in 2020 in the strongest centres like Ballarat and Bendigo.

She believes there is no better place to live, being close to the foreshore, yet within easy reach of city services. Before you decide on a suburb, make sure you know what property you’ll need. The sprawling city of Brisbane is a beautiful place that anyone would be happy to live in; but it’s comprised of nearly 200 suburbs, which makes it hard to decide exactly where in Brisbane you want to live. Kurwongbah has a … Griffin Medical Centre opened its doors in 2017, along with the new Café 63, Pizzeria, Gym and 7-Eleven service centre. Hobart and Canberra have had the lowest vacancy rates and have led on rental growth, with Hobart also the outstanding city on house price growth, a status it has maintained for the past two years. If you are looking to invest in the Brisbane property market, it’s worth considering the outer suburbs and bag yourself an investment bargain. Here, CoreLogic reported excellent capital growth back in late 2017 and early 2018 with median house prices rising 21 per cent during this time. Many of the key regional markets throughout Australia have low vacancies also, with rents growing steadily.

Kallangur’s just 26km north of the Brisbane CBD and has great access to the freeway. but will carry some growth momentum into the new year. And even that’s an improvement on 2019, which saw a -2.2% decrease in unit prices. According to CoreLogic, the city recorded a medium price growth of 5.37 per cent over the past year for houses. It has avoided the boom-bust scenarios seen recently in Melbourne and Sydney and the sharp downturns that have plagued Perth and Darwin. Melbourne, Brisbane and Perth are all between 2% and 2.5%, with Brisbane and Perth much tighter than they were one or two years ago. Highgate Hill is a high density suburb for those who enjoy apartment living. The roads project is expected to be completed in late 2018. This explains why the previous booms in Sydney and Melbourne coincided with lengthy downturns in Perth and Darwin and relative stagnation in Brisbane and Adelaide. With the median price of houses currently sitting at $467,000, properties in Deagon don’t sit on the market for long. Real estate watchers are becoming cynical of forecasters tipping the Brisbane boom, but the city is likely to deliver more in 2020.

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The elements that drove the previous Melbourne boom - a strong local economy, population growth and infrastructure spending - remain very much in play, Melbourne's upper end came roaring back towards the end of 2019, in the post-election revival. Hobart has passed the peak of the current cycle and it was noteworthy that while it continued to lead capital city Australia on price growth in 2019, the rate of increases moderated somewhat. I expect the northern beaches to do particularly well while, in the west, suburbs close to the emerging new airport at Badgerys Creek will attract growing interest as work on the new infrastructure unfolds. As vendors increasingly join the party in 2020, some of the heat will come out of auctions and prices towards the upper end of the market. The affordable towns of the Latrobe Valley centres, headed by Traralgon, will also attract demand from home buyers and investors.