January 16, 2025
3228 local real estate market wrap-up for Q4 2024
WITH NATURAL REAL ESTATE SENIOR SALES CONSULTANT OLIVIA SWANN The local property market in postcode 3228 remained active in the final quarter of 2024, with...
January 16, 2025
2025’s property market
WITH GARETH KENT, DIRECTOR PRESTON ROWE PATERSON Welcome to 2025. If you're like me and keep putting 2024 on every date, you get a leave...
January 9, 2025
Committee for Lorne: Modular Point Grey – A Different Way Forward
Point Grey ... a vexing, frustrating burr under Lorne's saddlebag, a mystifying stalemate for our regular visitors, a tawdry and dilapidated vista for our...
January 9, 2025
New year, new financial you: resolutions for a prosperous 2025
WITH DANIEL WALSH AND LEIGH DELEDIO FROM UFINANCIAL After the festive season spending spree, January offers a chance to recalibrate, reflect, and make resolutions that...
January 3, 2025
Committee for Lorne: And I Know Your Name So Well…
A–> B–> C–> D–> ... X–> Y–> Z Don't worry about it too much, but this frenetic summer, we will all forget peoples' names ......
December 26, 2024
Committee for Lorne: A Shag or a Cormorant?
Though I lament the new, unrequested 'AI summary' that Google now foists upon researchers in response to almost any search request, annoyingly, it proved...
December 26, 2024
Sleigh your spending this Christmas: budget tips for homeowners and savvy savers
WITH LEIGH DELEDIO AND DANIEL WALSH FROM UFINANCIAL Sleigh your spending this Christmas: budget tips for homeowners and savvy savers The festive season is upon us—a...
December 20, 2024
Committee for Lorne: Venus is weird … very weird!
After reading an interesting article on Venus, the so-called ‘Morning Star , and researching a few of its references,...
December 20, 2024
The Christmas we had to have
WITH GARETH KENT, DIRECTOR PRESTON ROWE PATERSON As we head into Christmas, I would like to thank you for reading my articles this year and...
December 12, 2024
Affordability and opportunities ahead for Victorian property market
WITH DANIEL WALSH AND LEIGH DELEDIO FROM UFINANCIAL Housing affordability has been the driving force for property buyers throughout 2024. Rising interest rates have tightened borrowing...
December 5, 2024
Committee for Lorne: A Shag or a Cormorant?
Though I lament the new, unrequested 'AI summary' that Google now foists upon researchers in response to almost any search request, annoyingly, it proved...
December 5, 2024
Why is the Geelong CBD in such desperation right now?
WITH GARETH KENT - DIRECTOR, PRESTON ROWE PATERSON I am thrilled our new mayor has made the CBD his priority and so many are getting...
November 28, 2024
What is capital gains tax and how might it affect you?
WITH DANIEL WALSH AND LEIGH DELEDIO FROM UFINANCIAL Capital gains tax (CGT) is a tax you pay on the profit made from selling or exchanging...
November 28, 2024
Committee for Lorne: Fireworks on New Year’s Eve
Last year, Committee for Lorne arranged to stage fireworks off the pier on New Years Eve for the first time in several years. This project...
November 21, 2024
Can Donald Trump affect the Geelong property market?
WITH GARETH KENT DIRECTOR PRESTON ROWE PATERSON Global changes affect our property markets directly, and astute investors need to keep one eye on world events. In...
November 21, 2024
Committee for Lorne: Abalone, limpets, and other molluscs
The following post appeared on the One and Only Lorne Community Facebook Page on November 6th under the banner and logo of the...
November 13, 2024
Young Victorians embrace regional property boom as affordability drives demand
WITH DANIEL WALSH AND LEIGH DELEDIO FROM UFINANCIAL Victoria’s real estate market is witnessing a significant shift as young first-home buyers increasingly seek affordable housing...
November 8, 2024
Committee for Lorne: Summer is fun, but.…
As more and more visitors flock to our southern coastline, there is an ever-increasing risk of misadventure, for many traps and hazards await the...
November 7, 2024
Unlocking homeownership for the next generation: a guide for parents
WITH TRIBE FINANCIAL Our recent first home buyers' night taught us as much as we think we shared. As a mortgage broker - and as someone...
November 7, 2024
It’s all talk with housing
WITH GARETH KENT, DIRECTOR PRESTON ROWE PATERSON We have just been treated to 10 days of housing policies by our Premier. It seems the penny has...
October 31, 2024
Committee for Lorne: The Spotted-Tailed Quoll
I hope, long, and ache to see one ... though in a lifetime of hoping, longing, and aching, I have yet to experience that...
October 31, 2024
Renewed confidence: Victorian first-home buyers surge to highest levels in nearly two years
WITH DANIEL WALSH AND LEIGH DELEDIO FROM UFINANCIAL The number of first-home buyers entering the Victorian property market has surged to its highest level in...
October 25, 2024
Giddy up
WITH CAM O'KEEFE Geelong Cup, Melbourne Cup and everything race-wise in between always seems to bring out the glitzy, giddy and relaxed side in many...
October 24, 2024
Asking prices are the guide to the residential market
WITH GARETH KENT, DIRECTOR PRESTON ROWE PATERSON I want to dedicate this article this week to my mate, Bob, who passed away on Monday afternoon. It...
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