Property listings now available. Check out the details here

Properties are suitable for investors or home buyers looking for affordable quality properties in the Newcastle/Hunter Valley areas. And remember to check out the great waterfront apartment at Port Stephens. It's great!

Email your enquiry to me via lindyasimus AT gmail.com We have new properties coming on line all the time, and of course we can arrange a review of your finance needs with a little help from Ian Huxley at The Mortgage Supermarket.
Seriously. Buying homes - or just paying for the one you have - should be viewed as a science. Checking your options to see if you are buying your money (and your property) at the best price you can is at once prudent, and a great way to keep as much of your money in your pocket as possible. You want that, right?

Rather than just waiting to see what properties 'turn up' if you're interested in buying, email and let me know what you're looking for and you may just be in luck with just the property to meet your needs, at the price you can afford. One things for sure...it costs you nothing to ask!


Lindy

Sulking House!

View to Sulking House on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

If you've not discovered Flickr for photo sharing on the internet, do yourself a favour and go visit. Man... this is what I need! A lovely garden complete with its own Sulking House!

When You Want To Build, Buy or Borrow For A Home -- Newcastle NSW Australia on Squidoo


Hey I've started a Squidoo "Lens" for people wanting to build, or buy, or borrow for a home in the Newcastle NSW region. Drop by and take a poke around. Lots of links to local departments that relate to homes, and naturally, more to follow!

Housing Affordability Survey Results June 2006

Interesting article on home affordability appeared in the WA Business News this week.
Here it is in full. It highlights once again, the importance of making sure you do your homework when you are building or renovating so you know UPFRONT what your costs are going to be...and that they cover EVERYTHING you are expecting!


Affordability remains barrier for Aust house hunters - report
23-June-06 by AAP

Thinking of renovating your home or even starting from scratch?

For many Australians, affordability remains the biggest hurdle for achieving either of these dreams.

A recent survey by the Housing Industry Association (HIA) showed sentiment in the residential sector remained solid in the March quarter with 69 per cent of Australian households planning to buy a home or renovate.

A large proportion of home buyers were first-timers - 38 per cent - while 28 per cent were buying their second home.

HIA executive director of housing and economics Simon Tennent said the numbers showed sentiment in the slowing market was improving.

However, housing affordability still loomed large with the report clearly showing it to be the biggest barrier to home ownership.

Incredibly high property prices - a legacy of the strong housing boom of the past decade - was the main reason Australian were not buying new homes.

Fifty-eight per cent of respondents who had neither bought new property in the past year nor were looking to in the next year said they couldn't afford it.

"The report card for Australia's builders is a good one with high levels of satisfaction among households who have had a home built or renovated, while for local councils, red tape and regulation were almost universally the biggest headache," Mr Tennent said.

Council delays posed the biggest problem faced by those who had bought a new home in the past year, with 39 per cent of home purchasers citing council regulations and deliberations as a hindrance to construction.

Building a home also required a great investment of time to research needed to make complex planning and construction decisions.

However, one in four respondents who had bought a new home reported they had no problems.

"Once building starts, hidden costs and delays in completing the home are the biggest issues," the report said.

The largest problem in this regard was hidden and unexpected costs, affecting 27 per cent of people building new homes.