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Good afternoon, The week was quiet on economic data, with some movement in the interest rate outlook standing out as the most significant development. Highlights of the week: A slight...
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National property services group Oliver Hume Property Group has officially acquired and relaunched Property Training Australia, a nationally accredited registered training provider. The move ma...
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Home buying service MyFirstHome (a division of Oliver Hume Home Solutions) has identified the 20 best suburbs in Melbourne, South East Queensland, and Adelaide, where first home buyers can take adv...
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Good afternoon, This week, the media landscape was dominated by social tensions due to issues both domestically and abroad, alongside the High Court's findings over the controversial Robodebt s...
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The immediate impact on property markets of today’s stronger than expected GDP result is that any chance of a September rate cut have probably disappeared. Prior to today’s release, financial mar...
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Oliver Hume's August Home Value Index StatementFollowing the release of Cotality Australia’s August Home Value Index, Our Chief Economist Matthew Bell shared his insights on the evolving property l...
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Good afternoon, A big week for the interest rate outlook as July inflation results were released, but also for the residential property industry specifically with some key Federal government an...
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New research from Oliver Hume reveals that buyers priced out of inner-city suburbs in Adelaide, Brisbane, and Melbourne can find significantly more affordable options in growth corridors, where new...
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Oliver Hume Chief Economist Matthew Bell said the recovery in land sales we’ve seen in the last few months as a result of the first two RBA cuts was dealt a blow today as the RBA went against near...
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The Australian’s Matthew Cranston reported today on the latest Australian Bureau of Statistics Building Approvals data and despite an increase in annual dwelling approvals, the Australian Labor Gov...
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A new platform designed specifically to support first-home buyers to get on the property ladder will provide access to dedicated Home Buying Coaches to help navigate the increasingly complex world...
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Australia's inflation figures remain steady, with the monthly rate at 2.4% in April and the trimmed mean CPI increasing slightly to 2.8%. While the Reserve Bank of Australia recently cut the cash r...
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Oliver Hume is pleased to announce its appointment as marketing sales agents for leading Victorian property developer, TW Projects on a newly zonedsite in Victoria’s south east. Oliver Hume Gen...
The latest Oliver Hume May market update covering our key markets of operation: Victoria, Southeast Queensland & South Australia. Quick overview: ☑️ Victoria: Continuing momentum with so...
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Our Chief Economist, Matthew Bell on:✔️ Australia's GDP for the March quarter came in at a lower-than-expected✔️ Severe weather conditions are likely to be attributed to this✔️ An anticipated slowd...
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The Oliver Hume Property Group Queensland team were very proud to join our partners Villawood Properties for the official sod turning at the Baya Redland project on Brisbane’s bayside yesterday....
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The Westpact-MI Consumer Sentiment Report was released. Some of the highlights include:✅ Overall sentiment up 2.2% in May, but still in negative territory✅Trajectory is positive for June with senti...
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This Mother’s Day, we are celebrating the wonderful mums at Oliver Hume who are the heart of our workplace. In this special video, our mums share their favourite parts of motherhood, the stories...
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Surrounded by more than 3 hectares of public parklands, including walking and bike trails, playgrounds and sporting ovals the community will feature 195 homes, a $10 million clubhouse, dedicated ac...
South East Queensland (SEQ) median land prices surged in the first three months of the year, surpassing $400,000 and overtaking Melbourne for the first time, according to new data from property ser...
Melbourne’s land market continues to show the early signs of a recovery with demand edging higher again in the March quarter while prices also showed a slight improvement, according to new data fro...
Victoria’s land market found a base slightly above historical lows in February as reservations rebounded from January’s seasonal low towards the top of the band the market has operated at for nearl...
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The last 12 months have been one of the most critical in Oliver Hume’s 70-year history as we accelerated our strategy to build a data-driven proptech group to support our clients, partners and inve...
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The following statement can be attributed to Oliver Hume Chief Economist Matt Bell. “A resurgent established house market has had knock-on impacts for land markets around the country, with Oliv...
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When Oliver Hume launched in the South Australian market in mid-2022 we wanted to ensure that we gave our clients and partners something different - a genuine competitive advantage. We are very...
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Property services and funds management group Oliver Hume has expanded and enhanced its marketing and research teams with the appointments of Mitchy Koper as National Head of Corporate Affairs and M...
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It's time for the Victorian Government and planning authorities to get serious about greenfield development in and around Melbourne or wear the consequences of rising prices, increased unaffordabil...
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For more than four years, beginning in early 2020 when COVID-19 reached our shores, the Australian home building industry has faced a series of challenges that have tested the industry, consumers,...
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The upcoming Victorian Budget will be one of the most important in recent years, especially in tackling the many challenges Melbourne and regional Victoria face. The state’s growing housing sho...
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On Monday, March 18th, the UDIA National Congress 2024 kicked off with the Welcome Night, an event traditionally sponsored by Oliver Hume. The event was held at the Great Hall at the National Galle...
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New data showing residential property prices in Australia’s regional areas outpacing capital cities should come as no surprise. The continued increase in demand for property in regional areas,...
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By Julian Coppini, CEO Project Marketing & George Bougias, National Head of Research The Federal Government’s recent changes to migration policy is just the latest sign that, as a nation, w...
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“Buy land. They’re not making it anymore.” The famous quote attributed to Mark Twain was not directed at property buyers living in Melbourne in 2023, but it is probably the best piece of advice...
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Queensland first home buyers now have more reason than ever to get on the property ladder and purchase a brand-new home after the Government doubled the support available to $30,000. Under plan...
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Since May 2022, when the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) first raised interest rates and set in motion one of the most challenging periods in decades for the property development sector, the indust...
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As the dream of home ownership slips away for even more Victorians, improving affordability has become even more critical. There will be no silver bullet to solving the current affordability cr...
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The South Australian Government’s decision to scrap stamp duty for first-home buyers purchasing a new home valued up to $650,000 is an inspired policy that will underpin a new wave of investment an...
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Melbourne’s northern growth corridor continues to be one of the hottest destinations for new land buyers with HB Land securing 40 sales in just five days at the newly launched 645-lot Woodsong comm...
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Adelaide's reliable, diesel-powered land market could be about to go nuclear, with an expected AUKUS-driven employment and economic boom set to further underpin long-term confidence and growth in A...
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One of the criticisms of modern society is that we are often too focused, almost exclusively, on the short term at the expense of the long term. This is especially the case when it comes to the...
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Modern property buyers have access to more data than ever before to help them make more informed purchasing decisions. In fact, the success of our business, Oliver Hume, is built on a range of comp...
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Demand for land in South East Queensland remains elevated with sales up to 10 times higher than pre-pandemic levels in some areas, while just seven suburbs have a median price under $300,000. A...
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GREATER Adelaide’s median land prices have surpassed $200,000 for the first time after growing by more than 5% to the June quarter. According to real estate services group Oliver Hume, land pri...
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Amid the backdrop of a sun-lit Adelaide skyline on the afternoon of Friday 8th July 2022, a crowd of around 200 gathered at 2KW Rooftop Bar for the Oliver Hume South Australia Launch Event. Twe...
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Interstate migration and low housing stock is pushing up prices in an enduring South East Queensland land market. According to the latest data from Oliver Hume, the SEQ land market saw a 9.1% b...
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While residential property prices in many markets around the country are beginning to retreat from record highs, the Adelaide land market remains resilient with prices being underpinned by the loca...
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The pace of development in Melbourne and regional growth corridors remains high and building activity continues to accelerate. The delivery of major new infrastructure projects is a key driver...
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The South Australian land market begun 2022 on the front foot as sales volumes, prices and overall demand continued to show strength. Increased activity is underpinned by the increasingly posit...
Trends in the ‘post-COVID’ era Identifying and understanding long-term trends is an important although rare skill. Getting a handle on underlying trends in times of rapid change is especial...
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Demand For Detached Housing Proves Strong As Pandemic Changes Designs One of the questions heading into 2021 was what the end of HomeBuilder incentive would mean for the market. Various alt...
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Australia’s Landmark Submarine Deal and the South Australian Property Market Australia’s landmark deal with the United States and Britain to acquire at least eight nuclear-powered submarines is...
How Small Towns In The Macedon Ranges Are Capturing Buyers From The Big City City buyers seeking a regional escape are discovering the Macedon Ranges Shire with the region experiencing a subst...
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The townhouse market has the potential to become one of the most exciting and dynamic residential sectors as Australia enters the next residential property cycle. Robust demand for residential...
Surging popularity in regional real estate has been one of the hallmarks of the property market since the emergence of COVID-19. One of the regional cities that has captured the attention of bu...
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The Carver’s Reach masterplanned community is becoming a refuge for one of Queensland’s most critically endangered trees with the re-planting of endangered native species in the estate’s expansive...
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Investors continue to make a strong return to Melbourne’s house and land market, with nearly one in three purchasers in April identifying as an investor. Oliver Hume data shows that in January...
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Villawood Properties and Azure Development Group will break ground on Friday 16 April marking the start of construction on their collaboration, Dawn Edition at The Surrounds. Dawn Edition will...
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In an economy where an increasing number of Australians are expected to be receiving the COVID-19 vaccine, the real estate markets that have been supercharged by the post-pandemic recovery are wort...
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The Carver’s Reach masterplanned community at Park Ridge is launching a display village as surging demand catapults sales in the growth region. Featuring 18 designer homes by Queensland’s best...
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An inviting collection of 54 terrace homes nestled in one of Helensvale’s most sought-after communities is set to provide an exciting new option for buyers in the booming Gold Coast real estate mar...
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George Bougias National Head of Research Oliver Hume The COVID-19 virus has taken a hammer to many of the ideas we have about what is normal. It is obvious now that many things will ne...
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Building on Parkville’s legacy - Parkville by Oliver Hume nabs top honour at UDIA awards A unique interpretation of Melbourne’s famed Victorian period architecture has been recognised as one of...
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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 Barr said buyers...
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Property services group Oliver Hume has started the new year on a high, with the group’s asset management business settling the sale of more than 300 individual properties since January 1 with the...
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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 the t...
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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 property services...
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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 principle...
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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 advisory firm Oliver Hum...
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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. Property s...
BY GEORGE BOUGIAS, NATIONAL HEAD OF RESEARCH Having the right data as quickly as possible is important in any industry not least in property. One of Oliver Hume’s advantages is our access t...
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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 Br...
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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 the...
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 areas a...
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Managing your investment property should be easy. If you’re spending more than five minutes a month managing your investment property then it’s time to review your property manager. It's no sec...
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 developers and land buye...
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November 2018 After displaying healthy conditions and a strong pipeline of future infrastructure development, the Gold Coast has proven to be one of Queensland’s strongest land markets in the S...
3 December 2018 The value of land across South East Queensland has risen significantly due to a growing desire by locals and interstate migrants to secure affordable lots as a result of current...
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Demand for Melbourne land continues to moderate with prices remaining stable in the three months to the end of September, compared to the June quarter. The median price of land in metropolitan Melb...
14 November 2018 Although the Australian economy continues to grow, in part because of the deregulation and other policy measures instituted several decades ago, it is clear there will need to...
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The pace of growth in Melbourne land prices slowed in June the quarter, indicated a moderating of the the market after nearly five years of strong growth, according to a new report from leading age...
South East Queensland land prices grew 1% over the three months to the end of June as a result of strong employment and population growth, taking total gains over the last 12 months to 3%. Oliv...
The latest land released at Torhaven in Deebing Heights is proving to be some of the most affordable in Queensland’s fastest growing Ripley Valley corridor. With land prices starting from $158,...
Providence Unlocks New Lots To Capitalise on Optimistic Ipswich Land Market another major land release at the project amid an ongoing boom in Ipswich property prices. The new Silverleaf releas...
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Melbourne Land Market Robust But Price Growth Slowing Demand for land in and around Mebourne continues to experience unprecedented demand with the average block being snapped up just 24 days after...
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Demographics and the Future It has been said that demographics are destiny. Those familiar with the long sweep of human history could point to many examples of where even minor changes in a popul...
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SEQ New Project Land Approaches $600 Per Sqm The average price for new land in South East Queensland (SEQ) is approaching $600/sqm for the first time with the amount of new project land coming to...
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SEQ Land Delivers Strong 2017 Despite Weaker Final Quarter Despite the weaker final quarter, 2017 was a strong year for South East Queensland land market with the average value rate (price per sqm...
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Victoria’s land market finished 2017 the way it started; with eager buyers snapping up blocks faster than developers can bring them to market, putting upward pressure on prices. Oliver Hume’s n...
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Development Victoria has fast-tracked the release of the second collection of homes after the launch of stage one attracted overwhelming interest. CIRQ Point Cook Stage Two features 14 two and...
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20 October 2016Caboolture buyers pay only $1000 to secure landThe latest wave of purchasers into a local community has pointed to its newest neighbour, Pumicestone State School, as one of the key d...
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Gold Coast apartment sales have recorded their first half-year decline in five years but remained “very healthy” at more than 60 per cent above long term averages, according to new research conduct...
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 Oliver...
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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 first t...
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December 2016 Oliver Hume Property Funds has placed as a finalist in the 2016 Urban Development Institute (UDIA) Awards for Excellence in the High Density Development Category for its statement No...
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25 October 2016Average vacant land prices across South East Queensland rose 3.2 per cent to a new record of almost $250,000 in the three months to the end of August 2016, with a lack of new land be...
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October 2016Quarterly 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 has been bui...
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September 2016The average time on the market for new land in Melbourne’s growth corridors is approaching just 60 days, down from more than 180 days through most of 2013, according to research by pr...
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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, Australi...
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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 packa...
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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 of...
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8 September 2016New 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 reputation as t...
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7 September 2016The 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 apartments could be...
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15 September 2016For 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 generation of landowners inc...
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8 September 2016One 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 and paperless...
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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.The new v...
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5 May 2016Leading property services firm Oliver Hume has appointed high performing sales agent Kara Jones as new General Manager of Queensland Corporate.Ms Jones will oversee key house and land dev...
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11 February 2015The 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 Real Estate Gro...
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25 July 2016Melbourne’s inner city owner-occupied apartment market is enjoying a resurgence in interest as buyers look to projects that prioritise quality over quantity with premium locations and a...
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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 Group.Construction...
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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 eight weeks wi...
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June 2016Residential land sales in April 2016 have risen to 1,503 transactions, the highest ever recorded for that month, and around 21 per cent higher compared to April 2015 according to new data...
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May 2016Renters are emerging as a powerful force in Melbourne’s property market as developers seek a point of difference in the competitive multi-residential market.All future Oliver Hume Property...
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May 2016Lifestyle managers are being introduced into new developments for ‘experience hungry’ millennials looking to spend less time on errands and more time socialising and career networking.As th...
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April 2016As the battle to secure the next generation of Gold Coast property stars intensifies, one local group is utilising a unique partnership with Griffith University to ensure it secures the b...
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March 2016PROPERTY services group Oliver Hume is becoming a major force in Melbourne’s inner northern suburbs where it has sold out three projects and is about to launch another.The company, which...
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9 March 2016MEDIAN average land prices in the Ipswich market catchment have risen 9 per cent across all estates in the past 15 months, according to new research.Property research group Oliver Hume...
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28 March 2016LOGAN’s new $22 million Haven Hill estate is set to be officially launched to market as buyers rush to secure land in the growing southwestern corridor.Located on Tallagandra Road, Hol...
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17 February 2016In a sign the South East Queensland house and land market is continuing to gather pace, property service group Oliver Hume has reported its strongest January sales figures ever.Oliv...
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9 February 2016FORMER Griffith University student Rebecca Delay is well on her way to achieving her dream of being a property developer, thanks to property services group Oliver Hume.The company th...
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5 January 2016GOLD Coast based property services group Oliver Hume has added close to $1 billion worth of new land projects to its pipeline on the back of strengthening demand in the South East Que...
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