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I hope so. I would happily sell a residential house and retire to a high rise apartment in my twilight years with a pocketful of cash.

Oversupply of Class 2 low rise will have an influence on numbers...

Article today/yesterday saying median rent is down $10 to $440 in Perth from memory? I would say it is a "buyers" market for rentals. Friends and family of mine seem to all be upgrading to renting in nicer areas/nicer homes for similar money.

My guess is stable pricing, with moderate 2-3% growth on houses within 20km of CBD that are under $550k for a house on full block. My sister and her husband recently moved back to Perth and are looking to buy, and they have friends in similar situations. They want full blocks (not...

Still think we are a long way off double brick being the minority. We build architecturally designed one-offs. People have 100% control on what they want, and the money to do so, and still don't see much that isn't double brick construction. Great time to be a bricklayer at the moment anyway.

Builders have been looking at alternatives for some time. Try selling something that isn't double brick to someone though... Change is still a few years away at this stage. Still a handful of bricklayers floating around (no new ones coming through apprenticeships though, so the days are...

That's news to me.

Totally subjective based on area and feasibility. Built my parents dream home on the remaining part of their block in Doubleview. For investment, a 2 storey townhouse would have been best. The rear of their block was a 2 storey, 4x2. They spent most of their weekends cleaning and were the...