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Parkville by Oliver Hume Takes National Award

Building on Parkville’s legacy - Parkville by Oliver Hume nabs top honour at UDIA awards

A unique interpretation of Melbourne’s famed Victor...

No stopping park ridge boom as first buyer settle

Carver’s Reach is being developed by Golden Gate Property with sales and marketing managed by property services group Oliver Hume.

Oliver Hume Queensland Project Director Matt...

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SEQ Land Demand Increases in Sep Qtr

Demand for land across South East Queensland (SEQ) continued to gather pace through the September quarter with renewed buyer confidence driving down the time on market for a block of land for th...

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Normality Returning To Melbourne’s Land Market at the end of 2019

The Melbourne land market is slowly normalising with the median time on market for new land recording its third consecutive quarter of stable results.

New research by leading p...

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It's Time To Rethink Density In Our Cities - Forecast Record Growth

With new forecasts of record population growth across Australia’s major capital cities over the next few decades and affordability remaining a challenge, is it time to reconsider the core princi...

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Melbourne's land size continues to change to market demand

Melbourne’s typical house block has shrunk again, despite land prices and sales numbers falling across the past year.

New figures released by researchers at development advisor...

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Go west for South East Queensland’s best value land

Land buyers looking to take advantage of lower interest rates should look to Ipswich, with new analysis showing the growing region is home to South East Queensland’s best value land.

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Melbourne land buyers switch focus to smaller lots

BY GEORGE BOUGIAS, NATIONAL HEAD OF RESEARCH

Having the right data as quickly as possible is important in any industry not least in property...

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Carver's Reach project helping to save rare pine tree

More than 170 years after the first white settlers carved out a living as timber getters to help feed the region’s insatiable demand for new railways, a new $130 million residential community on...

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South East Queensland land market set to take flight

South East Queensland’s land market is expected to be one of the major beneficiaries of the Federal election with loosening credit controls and local economic also helping to drive demand over t...

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Melbourne land looking up

Melbourne median land prices (gross) have recorded small increases in the 12 months to the end of March, despite a tough start to 2019 that saw prices retreat across nearly all major growth area...

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The rise of the townhouse – a new era for Melbourne housing

May 27, 2019

George Bougias
National Head of Research, Oliver Hume

Continued growth in house prices, especially in inner and middle Melbourne, combined with ch...

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Australia’s growing population underpins the property market

February 22, 2019

George Bougias
National Head of Research, Oliver Hume

2018 was an important year for the residential property market. The moderation in...

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From good to great? The year ahead for South East Queensland land

While just a few weeks old, the new year is already shaping as one of the most important in nearly a decade for the south east Queensland land market.

For both property develop...

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Relax, infrastructure will save the day

14 November 2018

Although the Australian economy continues to grow, in part because of...

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New Queensland school sparks sales rush in neighbouring estate

20 October 2016

Caboolture buyers pay only $1000 to secure land

The latest wave of purchasers into a local community has pointed to its newest neighbour, <...

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Melbourne land boom gathers pace as size shrinks, prices rise

The average time on the market for new land in Melbourne’s growth corridors has dropped below 60 days as the current upswing continues to gather pace, according to research by property group Oli...

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Oliver Hume expands into Northern Territory

PROPERTY services group Oliver Hume has been appointed as the exclusive sales and marketing agent for Defence Housing Australia’s (DHA) 1,151-lot Breezes Muirhead development in Darwin, the firs...

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Bacchus Marsh reputation grows as population swells

13 December 2016

Bacchus Marsh is quickly gaining a reputation as one of Victoria’s top performing property markets. Its growing population, key infrastructure upgrades improving acce...

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New releases drive Gold Coast land boom

October 2016

Quarterly vacant land sales have leapt above 600 on the Gold Coast for just the fourth time since 2009 as a slew of new projects come to market and ease pent up demand that h...

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RMIT University students attend Oliver Hume forum and site visit

RMIT University students in their second year of a Bachelor of Applied Science (Property and Valuation) have had the opportunity to attend a forum and industry site visit with Oliver Hume, Austr...

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Saltwater Builders' Breakfast

Saltwater Coast at Point Cook provides a balance of urban, natural coastal and rural residential themes with a sense of community and a choice of more than 2,300 home sites and house and land pa...

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The NBN comes to Jubilee

Jubilee is a new master-planned community in the thriving suburb of Wyndham Vale, near Werribee in Melbourne’s booming new west. It’s the best of both worlds, a village feel, with many hectares...

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Queensland's 'Road to Riches' delivering strong growth

8 September 2016

New land buyers at communities along the Centenary Highway have achieved price growth of up to 26 per cent over the last two years, earning the development hotspot a...

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Casino could unleash 9000 new apartments on the Gold Coast

7 September 2016

The proposed $3 billion resort and casino mega-city mooted for the Gold Coast will provide a jobs and property bonanza, with predictions that up to 9000 stalled apartment...

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Australia's largest ever rural residential government sell-down completed

15 September 2016

For most of the last decade property owners in Queensland’s Mary Valley have been at the mercy of the $2 billion Traveston Dam that never was.

Now a new g...

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Apple, Tesla Inspire Australian-First Digital Residential Sales Centre at Providence

8 September 2016

One of southeast Queensland’s fastest growing communities is now home to Australia’s first all-digital sales centre, offering home and land buyers a fully interactive...

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New Thornlands Homes Expo paints a picture of Bayside living

19 August 2016

Bayside home buyers will be able to peruse one of Queensland’s largest display home villages with the launch of the Waterline Bayside Homes Expo at Thornlands on 27 August...

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Melbourne new apartment sizes shrinking again

11 February 2015

The size of one and two bedroom apartments in Melbourne being sold off the plan shrunk in the final quarter of the year, according to a new report by the Oliver Hume...

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Orchard unveils new $31 million project at Maudsland

25 July 2016

Elevated blocks with wide street frontages overlooking the Gold Coast will be the centerpiece of the latest project by leading Gold Coast developer Orchard Property Gr...

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Oliver Hume secures 1000 lots across four Victorian projects

25 July 2016

PROPERTY services group Oliver Hume has cemented its position as Victoria’s leading property marketing group with the appointment to four different projects in the last eigh...

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