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Interesting choices. Advising our family at the moment to keep level of borrowing down in ppor purchase as employment may become less secure and prices could continue to drift for a while. In Moorabin/Highett $600k currently buys potential eg 9 Gwenda Av looks like selling for only just...

Hampton East Thanks. Had a look at this one and certainly plenty of house for the money. Would make an excellent rental. The only resevation I have is price includes things of value that I dont like and will cost eg crappy kitchen and bathrooms. But you cant have everything so is on our...

balance caring (not meddling) with supporting Difficult thing supporting aging parents - have done this several times and now thinking through retirement plans myself - hence why I read this thread. Lots of good ideas from others and can only underline a couple of themes. All my...

Thanks and Hampton East and Glen Huntly compared Thanks Bigtone Recommendation does look good indeed, thanks! It definitely has more for the money than my best so far comparison which may be similar $. http://www.domain.com.au/Property/For-Sale/House/VIC/Glen-Huntly/?adid=2008232465 We...

scaring the bunnies - an agents take on under quoting On the whole agents dont seem to think buyers know what theyre doing ... funny about that. One told me they know how emotional a home purchase is and they bank on many people either getting sucked along by the purchasing process and...

Orange CG Wellington RR Four hours will get you to Orange on a good travelling day. Orange has had excellent CG over last few years for a whole range of reasons (public service postings, eduction, regional centre, arts etc) and particularly the Kadia gold mine. Some great houses too. Kadia has...

Underquoting officially back - agent Only two weeks ago an agent told me that 'underquoting was officially back - in fact agents are under instruction for it to be routine' at least 15%. Not sure what 'officially back' means. Can only assume after over quoting was dampened by media...

Thanks reprodrive Sorry description hard to follow. I did want to exclude Highett as didnt like what I saw in hunting for our previous purchase and prefer closer to Caufield South. May need to revisit as you suggest. Drove up and down streets yesterday rather than inspections and started to...

Just moved to Melbourne and want to do a minor upgrade and resell in 12 months. Considering anything south of Princess Hwy, east of Nepean Hwy and north of South Road within reasonable distance of a station, not on busy roads and under $900k. Any tips for loactions that might have better CG...

I have been thinking along similar lines only wondering if what is driving a new equilibrium is a changed pool of buyers. Im from Melbourne too and traditionally we assume the pool of buys are primarily from Melbourne and local plus regional, interstate and some international movers. A Melbourne...