Obtaining best price for your home is the goal. So how do we create competition and increased interest in our property when it comes time to sell? Renovating or “tricking up” the outside of our home is one way. Madeleine Hicks of LJ Hooker Everton Park says, “The key to getting the very best price [...]

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Open Home Inspection Times for Saturday 21st April   9 Kline Place, McDowall 10:15 – 10:45am 78 Paramount Circuit, McDowall 11:15 – 11:45am 3 Somers Street, Cashmere 12:15 – 12:45pm 55 Bening Place, McDowall 1:15 – 1:45pm 1 Walpole Street, McDowall 2:15 – 2:45pm

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Join in and have some fun with Madeleine’s Mothers day Competition. Tell Us In 25 Words or Less, Why Your Mum is So Special!! Click on the image below to download your entry form now.

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Buying your first home is a combination of nerves and excitement. Is now the right time? Is this a good buy? Are we doing the right thing? These are just a few of the myriad of questions going through a first home buyer’s mind. Madeleine Hicks of LJ Hooker believes that first home buyers only [...]

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Open Home Inspection Times Saturday 14th April 10:15am – 9 Kline Place, McDowall 11:15am – 55 Bening Place, McDowall 12:15pm – 3 Somers Street, Cashmere 1:15pm – 78 Paramount Circuit, McDowall 2:15pm – 1 Walpole Street, McDowall

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Before explaining what a carbon credit is, we should first explain what carbon offsetting is. Put simply, carbon offsetting is a way for people and businesses to invest in projects that prevent or reduce greenhouse gas emissions from being released into the atmosphere. A carbon credit is a formal recognition that one tonne of carbon [...]

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Some may describe the market as “sluggish” others describe it as “normal real estate conditions.” Whatever the case, property investment has never been a get rich quick scheme. “Property is a great investment over long periods of time,” says leading agent Madeleine Hicks of LJ Hooker Everton Park. “Too often people get excited when the [...]

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Foreign investors have “very odd” views about Australian property and fret that housing prices may yet collapse, according to a senior Australian banking executive. “Overseas investors have a very odd set of views about Australian property prices,” Phil Chronican, ANZ’s chief executive of its Australian operations, said today. “They on one hand look at the [...]

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Next time you’re cooking up a storm in your kitchen spare a thought for the passengers on board an A330 Qantas flight from Sydney to Adelaide on Friday, 13 April. This auspicious flight will be powered by recycled cooking oil from commercial kitchens that is mixed with jet fuel that emits 60% less carbon dioxide. [...]

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Property can be a great investment and can fund an early, wealthy retirement. Smart property investors often have the comfort of knowing that they can quit their day job and live off their passive income that they have created whilst watching their assets grow. Leading agent Madeleine Hicks of LJ Hooker believes that anyone can [...]

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