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    Brisbane Suburbs - Please Help me decide!

    I keep an eye on both sides of the river but i've owned and lived in keperra briefly. We had some difficult housing commission neighbours which made it an unpleasant place to live. I'm sure the great majority of housing comm tenants are fine but why take the added risk with an IP. Stafford has...
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    Brisbane Suburbs - Please Help me decide!

    Everton Park, Stafford Heights and kedron are much more desirable places to live than Keperra for only slightly more money. Zillmere is on a par with keperra but cheaper. If your upper limit is 500 than Newmarket, Gaythorne and Mitchelton are worth a look. I can't comment on the southside...
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    Pm for brisbane everton park area.

    I have used Pure Rentals for my Red Hill property for the past 18 months and I'm very happy with them.
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    Europe ticks up

    Boom times for property here in Norway. We are pretty much at the top of the cycle with yields getting thin but plenty of petro dollars sloshing around. It is very fashionable to write off Europe but the north is much more lean and rational than us or the US while the south still believes in...
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    is double brick more desirable?

    Double brick is far superior. Single brick is basically a skin on a timber frame with little structural purpose, more decaration and weather resistance. Double brick is load bearing along its entire length. Double is rarely built these days and unheard of in estates.
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    RBA dropped 25 basis points

    The CBA have had a 90 day offer starting about a week ago of 3 years at 5.99 so no change there. They have 2 years at 5.79 but I'm not sure if the 90 day scenario applies to their 1,2 or 5 year fixed rates. It seems like the CBA are trying to say 'this is as low as we're going' in an attempt to...
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    The rich are leaving America

    So you think asylum seeker expenditure is significant do you? This is an investment forum not a race forum.
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    The Reserve Bank - Next Move?

    Sorry my mistake. My rate was 6.66%, I just checked and it is reduced to 6.41% as of 19.12.11. They took there sweet time though.
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    The Reserve Bank - Next Move?

    I am in a combank 'wealth package' which is variable and they passed on none of the last rate cut to customers on that product. The proportion of their customers on the 'stabdard variable rate' would be very small I think as it is an extortionately expensive product, 7.81% from memory, but they...
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    PM around Red Hill (Brisbane)

    Hi NSM, We have rented our Red Hill property for the last 18 months with QPA property management. We are overseas and needed a manager who is on top of things and they have been great. Marie Pryce is the pricipal and she knows what she's doing.
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    Heated tiles for PPOR

    There power is actualy more than double the price even with hydro. A glass of beer is about $13 and a 6 pack from the shops about $35. We tip the state big time every time we open our wallet over here. Enough to drive a man to drink. Great place though, I must agree. Cheers Matt.
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    Heated tiles for PPOR

    Another thing, 11k additional to install sounds crazy. Basically they just lay the warmer and cable in an S pattern, add a circuit and then apply the tile adhesive and tile as normal. Sounds like they have never done it before.
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    Heated tiles for PPOR

    Hi, I'm living in Norway at the moment (-20 degree winters) and underfloor heating is brilliant. Nothing worse than stepping on cold bathroom tiles first thing in the morning. They are great for for drying umbrellas and shoes in your entrance way too. Thoroughly recommend it and probably no more...
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    Bad news for Interest Rate Hawks - RBA Cash rates unchanged

    "BANANA PRICE INDEX" are you serious. If there is such a thing it would have been created by some hack finance journo after Costello used banana prices to tell us we didn't have an inflation problem, not the RBA. Also if bond yields around the world are either rubbish or just plain risky...
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    Next Interest Rate Movement down?

    Hi all, long time reader and all that. I just noticed on infochoice.com.au - CBA variable: 7.31% CBA 1 yr. fix: 6.84% 2 yr. fix: 6.94%...
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