Browse Forums General Discussion Re: First Home Owner Grant now $24000! Sydney House Prices Next? 42Oct 21, 2008 3:13 pm C&G -------------------------------- A new building chapter begins.. Re: First Home Owner Grant now $24000! Sydney House Prices Next? 44Oct 22, 2008 6:47 am whatcom county and bellingham real estate Re: First Home Owner Grant now $24000! Sydney House Prices Next? 46Oct 22, 2008 9:06 am C&G -------------------------------- A new building chapter begins.. Re: First home in Sydney, first home buyers 54Nov 11, 2008 10:08 pm ![]() ![]() New home buyers in New South Wales are set to get a $3,000 boost in tomorrow's mini-budget. The State Government will increase the first home owners grant for people buying newly constructed properties in next Tuesday's mini-budget. It means people will now be eligible for a total of $10,000 from the State Government plus $14,000 from the Commonwealth. So, now it's $24,000 in New South Wales as well, I take that back what I said about Victorians being lucky. ![]() don't go jumping yet.. remember to vist www.osr.nsw.gov.au read into the specifics of this grant.. it will be means tested next year also .. also note that if you have put pen to paper (contract) before these announcements you will not be entitled to the additional grant.. and ******* your contract date can land you in jail with a criminal record.. when you add the fact that Rees is removing free travel passes to students. adding 137 red light cameras and possible dual fitted with speed camera and the congestion toll and increased parking levy. BAM wallah you now have higher cost of living. the grant is the pretty side of things but the economic downfalls these coming years are going to far outway what good the grant can do... Re: Home Loans 55Nov 11, 2008 10:16 pm ![]() ![]() We will be reading & hearing about the american fallout constantly & this will affect the consumers here. I really don't think real estate prices are going to go up. I'm certain there is still plenty of room for them to keep falling in some areas & to stay flat in others for a long time. The fallout from the USA sub-prime is partly the perceived increased risk in housing finance after the banks lost in a big way in US real estate lending. As our banks rely largely on overseas finance supply (which has been disrupted) to lend to borrowers here, it affects how careful they are in handing it out. unless you are the head CEO of the four big banks then i would not believe anything anyone has to say.. not the media not the analysts.. you see there is this thing called monopoly.. and as you can see from trend - have you noticed that each of the four big banks have taken turn in leading thier interest rate drop announcement.. there has not been one bank that has announced ahead of everyone everytime. last one was CBA, before westpac, before that ANZ.. they are playing thier game and they are monopolising the interest rates taking turn in the blame. yet they continue not to pass on the full amount... if you read enough and watch the trends you can make your own analysis. the banks want interest rates up not down for the same reason as any banking Business would -PROFITS.. big fat payout for the CEO.. i hate to say it but i bet ya in the december rate drop and i know there will be one - NAB will be the one to announce first... Re: First home in Sydney, first home buyers 56Nov 11, 2008 10:17 pm ![]() when you add the fact that Rees is removing free travel passes to students. adding 137 red light cameras and possible dual fitted with speed camera and the congestion toll and increased parking levy. Simple method of avoiding a few of these increased traffic charges: 1. Don't run red lights 2. Don't speed Too easy. ![]() Re: First home in Sydney, first home buyer advice 57Nov 12, 2008 12:14 am ![]() ![]() when you add the fact that Rees is removing free travel passes to students. adding 137 red light cameras and possible dual fitted with speed camera and the congestion toll and increased parking levy. Simple method of avoiding a few of these increased traffic charges: 1. Don't run red lights 2. Don't speed Too easy. ![]() Lyn that's funny ![]() ![]() There's a problem though, we have a large population in North West Sydney who don't have access to efficient public transport into Sydney CBD. Maybe Sydney city council can have large parking lots just outside the CBD and free buses into the CBD. Parramatta council has free bus services in their CBD for this reason. They run every 10 minutes from Parramatta ferry wharf to the city centre to Parramatta train station. Re: First home in Sydney, first home buyer advice 58Nov 12, 2008 6:39 am ![]() There's a problem though, we have a large population in North West Sydney who don't have access to efficient public transport into Sydney CBD. Yes well done to the Labor govt for the botch up of the North West rail line.... ![]() Re: First home in Sydney, first home buyer advice 59Nov 12, 2008 7:12 am Tell me about it, I'm a daily user of the 610 bus service from the North West into the City and what I'm seeing at night now is such a huge amount of bus congestion within the CBD. Now they're going to add MORE buses, plus Westbus/Hillsbus get all of their brand new double decker buses at the start of next year.
I just found it incredibly funny reading about the congestion tax and increased parking levy, in order to deter people from driving in, and then reading that they have scrapped both the North-West and South-West rail links.....way to contradict yourself ![]() The bus service into the city is actually quite efficient but outbound, it runs into problems due to no bus lane between the city and Beecroft. It's often forgotten that the government didn't even have the forward planning capabilities to have the M2 three lanes when it was built. They knew the North-West was a massive growth area. We do have a large parking lot just outside the CBD, it's called the Harbour Bridge! Stevep79 & Principessa Finished building Wisdom Homes Impression 33mkII in The Ponds, Sydney http://lilypadintheponds.blogspot.com Re: First home in Sydney, first home buyer advice 60Nov 12, 2008 9:53 am ![]() It's often forgotten that the government didn't even have the forward planning capabilities to have the M2 three lanes when it was built. They knew the North-West was a massive growth area. We do have a large parking lot just outside the CBD, it's called the Harbour Bridge! Gee, obviously Sydney and Melbourne are exactly the same ... we have freeways that they start widening before they even finish the previous widening exercise. We also have a really big carpark in the Monash Freeway. Funnily enough that runs through SE Melbourne where we have needed a quadruplication of the rail line to Dandenong for years ... instead of spending the funds on rail lines they are building yet another freeway to bypass a suburb that was already bypassed... but it will help the rich pollies get to their beach houses quicker. Hi all I am looking to run a water line under my concrete footpath which is directly next to my home, was seeing if this is possible without cutting the entire section… 0 20920 Tradie may sit at home but will need to get house plastered as well or will you sit it out? 6 10933 i imagine you also have another contract with an architect? and yeah, whatever other's said about special conditions and appendices 16 16988 |