Hope Island is one of the Gold Coast’s most exclusive suburbs. Home to an enclave of exclusive housing estates, such as Sanctuary Cove and Hope Island Resort, with several world class golf courses meandering in between.
The property website Domain are currently running a series of articles on selling a property, covering aspects from presentation and market advise, to sales tactics and the conveyancing process itself.
Brisbane came alive this weekend for the annual Teneriffe Festival. The streets were lined with a festival of food, markets and entertainment.
So you’ve spent countless weekends scouring the suburbs of Brisbane, or the Gold Coast for that perfect property and you think you’ve finally found ‘the one’ and are ready to put in an offer and sign a contract of sale. It’s right about now that you need to tap the brakes every so slightly. There’s no point rushing in and signing your name, as the entire conveyancing process will be dictated by this contract, so you want to make sure you’ve got it right before signing.
So you’ve had your property on the market for a while and have now signed a contract of sale and sold your property. First of all congratulations on the sale! While getting that offer may be exciting at first, we’re sure that a bit of stress is beginning to creep into your mind as you start to consider the long list of things you now have to take care.
We’ve been writing a bit recently about buying property off-the-plan and how it differs from purchasing an established property. Whilst doing research for these articles our conveyancing solicitors stumbled across this great article which answers eight common questions a buyer may have when deciding to purchase an apartment off-the-plan.
The skies above the Gold Coast and Brisbane are beginning to fill with cranes as confidence in the Queensland property market increases. With this huge increase in development comes an increase in new apartments flooding onto the market. Most of these apartments are sold before construction finishes in what is termed as an off-the-plan contract.
It looks as though the Gold Coast’s skyline is again set to be decorated with towering cranes as development kicks off in a big way in the lead-up to the 2018 Commonwealth games, with a slew of new high rise developments seeing approval from Southport, through Surfers Paradise and down to Broadbeach.
