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• House price average records slight drop, REIA

  By First National Real Estate - Australian Property Blog on June 13, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  
  

  The March quarter recorded a slight drop in the Australian weighted average median house price for capital cities, largely due to the drag factor of Brisbane, Melbourne and Adelaide, according to the Bendigo Bank/REIA Real Estate Market Facts report.

• Historic high yields and low rates

  By First National Real Estate - Australian Property Blog on June 12, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  
  

  Interest rates are now at historic lows, after the Reserve Bank’s decision to cut the official cash rate to 2.75% last month.

  At the same time, rental yields are at historic highs and expected to increase.

• First National Chief Executive regards April declines as ‘blip on the graph of recovery’

  By First National Real Estate - Australian Property Blog on June 11, 2013 • ( 0 )

  
  

  After an encouraging 2.8% gain in capital city dwelling values in the first three months of 2013, prices slipped backwards by 0.5% through April.

  However, March was a particularly strong quarter and First National Real Estate regards the fall as a blip on the graph of recovery, rather than an indicator that the market’s recovery might be faltering.

• First National calls in unwanted mobile phones

  By First National Real Estate - Australian Property Blog on June 5, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  
  

  Australians who moved house over the last five years moved an estimated 5.7 million old mobiles[1] with them according to First National Real Estate. A new report[2] commissioned by MobileMuster on moving home habits, has found that Australians keep taking their old mobiles, batteries and chargers with them each time they move, rather than recycling them.

• Author Profile

  By First National Real Estate - Australian Property Blog on May 31, 2013 • ( 0 )

  
  

  Stewart Bunn is the National Communications Manager of First National Real Estate, Australasia’s third largest real estate brand by market share (KPMG).

• First National expands in South Pacific

  By First National Real Estate - Australian Property Blog on May 31, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  
  

  First National Real Estate is expanding throughout the region with members now throughout Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea and Vanuatu. “We have grown to become Australia’s largest independent real estate network by letting our members do what they do best – work within their communities to put customers first,” First National Real Estate Chief Executive, Mr Ray Ellis told the network’s annual Convention.

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