Search results

I also know that these people that call Gladstone home wont get a job here as they have burnt their bridges. Hence the need to work at Wheatstone, etc. Another fact is that just as many restaurants have closed down as have opened. Most of them have not made the news so unless you did a...

Not necessarily. This company may have a contract to do and they are finding it easier to rent a single complex and FIFO all their workers rather than separate houses all over town. 55 is a good pickup though as this happens a lot with smaller number. I have seen this happen to 5 and 6...

If they were living on camp they wont be staying in Gladstone after the project is over. They would be moving on to the next camp job. Those who moved here for the construction jobs may stay but without another large project then there wont be much work around.

I have been seeing the same thing norwoodman. Also new houses are still popping up that were purchased off the plan a while ago and the owners are now forced to either build or loose thier deposits. The way things are now loosing the deposit may be the better option. Quite a few houses have...

Furnished will definitely give you more per week, and may be what is needed to rent the place out quickly. Maybe give prospective tenants the option of $550 furnished and $500 unfurnished?? Assuming you can remove the furniture and place in storage.

http://www.realestate.com.au/property-house-qld-kirkwood-412962799 This one is also in Kirkwood for $420. Is you IP a larger house? Our was it one of the small houses on small blocks of land? You may be able to get away with a larger asking price if you have the larger block.

Commisionsing starts this month so I am not sure how many labourers are needed for that? Only enough to fix punch items which is not that many. Also how likely are they to continue with train 2 if they cant get buyers for thier gas? Also Kevin Berg has stated that redundacies have already...

I'm learning closer to 3 as well. Remember all four major project finish over the next 12 months with job loses exceeding 11,000. Half of which are camp based though. While some will be created as production staff, this will be measured in the hundreds.

Wow!! I really hope people look further into this and don't take this information on face value. Misleading would be a very generous way of describing it.

That graph is from John Rolfe at CQUniversity. He released a report in 2011 and 2013 and failed to change his assumptions for the 2013 report so people still thought the boom would last another few years despite the flat to falling market in 2013. Selling up now may be hard as there are as...

Does this mean they have the option of leaving if you dont drop the rent? I dont remember having these clauses when I was renting but it may have been there. Also rent here is dropping fast. 4-2-2 are back under $500 (in Gladstone, Calliope is under $400) so you need to start doing something...

Not entirely accurate. Just one project by Santos is called GLNG. The other two are QCLNG and APLNG. All have different stake holders but are being built by Bechtel.

I cant see it closing having too much effect. The people staying on camp are only here for construction and once that finishes they will leave. As they stayed on camp they did not effect the housing market as they were not renting.

No worries. My copy is "1203-CQU-Gladstone-Population-and-Housing-Study.pdf" His finding were also re-published in this pdf "Rolfe-Gld-presentation-29-May-2013.pdf" I was going to post a link but I am getting a 404 error when I checked them. I will look for a live link.

That would be the graph from the John Rolf CQU report that has the peak at 2013-14 with a sharp decline to 2015 before everyone being gone in 2017. Some of his assumptions have turned out wrong and some of the projects are no longer going ahead so take it with a grain of salt. I have a copy of...

We have been one of the highest vancancy rates for most of this year. And still more houses and units are being built. The next 6 - 12 months is going to be very painful. Unless more construction is announced the oversupply of houses and mass lay-offs will hurt a lot of investors.

I hope there was not too much damage. Much of Gladstone was fine during the floods, but I the surrounding townships were hit hard. Also the roads were made worse than the goat tracks they already are.

Sorry Mattnz but the first link did not work for me. was it this - http://www.gladstoneobserver.com.au/news/gas-power-plant-track/1377731/ While these projects may be years away, hopefully some come to fruition otherwise there will be a massive over supply of housing when the projects that...

I don't know if there is a newer graph out as this is over 12 months old. But some of these projects, especially Boulder Steel and Arrow have only just put their EIS statements in. This means they are 18 months away from starting and this graph has them already started. Some of the other...

The double workforce to over 6000 figure is a bit of a red herring. It was always going to be over 6000, which is why the island camp can hold 6000 people. From what I was last told this will be the peak workforce for the next 6-12 months then the first job will start ramping down. The three...