08/18/2016

The Melbourne home auction market continues to strengthen with escalating boom-time results, reflecting sky-high confidence after the recent interest rate cut and a surge by investors. Relatively low auction numbers also remain a key ingredient of higher clearance rates, with strong competition among buyers for available properties. The strong market conditions are being shared reasonably evenly amongst Melbourne’s suburban regions, with the recently quieter eastern suburb markets also

08/12/2016

Australia’s housing market continues to rise, amidst modest economic growth. House prices rose by 11.4% in Australia´s eight major cities during the year to end-Q3 2015 (9.72% inflation-adjusted), up from an annual rise of 9.23% in a year earlier and the highest y-o-y increase since Q2 2010, based on figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). House prices increased 2.17% (1.71% inflation-adjusted) quarter-on-quarter in Q3 2015.

05/10/2016

John Denton’s View Hill House, set just below the apex of a promontory around which the Yarra Valley swirls in an almost three-hundred-degree arc, sets out with steely clarity one pole of that firm’s quest for great architecture. The look of the architecture is fast and highly graphic where the architects’ potential for involvement is limited, medium and modulated where there is a complex (often institutional) client, and slow and close-grained where complete involvement is possible.  Read more