. Queensland has new Real Estate Legislation, which includes the abolishment of maximum commission rates and warning statements. Separating the Property Agents and Motor Dealers Act has meant the property industry now has specific individual legislation.......
. The Cruise Ship Terminal planning project on the Gold Coast is moving forward with City Councillors voting in favour of the project 9 to 6 with the preferred developer being ASF Consortium.......
. Australian business confidence is recovering with an increase of 3.3 points from February to a score of 120.6 putting business confidence back above levels preceding the federal election in August 2013.......
. Australian Finance Group (AFG), Australia's largest mortgage broker, says two in five new home loans in March were processed for investors.......
. Home prices have surged in March which is a sign that the boom in the property market is continuing. Prices surged by 2.3% last month over Australia's eight capital cities to take the total growth for the first quarter to 3.......
. Building is expected to start in 2015 on the Commonwealth Games Village on the Gold Coast and it will be a highly sought address after the Games, Queensland's premier says.......
. Two Brisbane-based start-ups took first and second prize at the recent Oz-APP awards, among 200 other entries which came from the Asia Pacific region.......
. The ANZ has predicted that Asia's financial system will be larger than the US and Europe combined by 2030 due to the liberalisation of China's financial system which will unleash a flood of capital into global bond and equity markets.......
. While Brisbane values have been soft for some time, the city is tipped to be ahead of the pack in 2014, according to the National Australia Bank residential property survey. The NAB survey predicts an increase in house values of 6.......
