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This is where you will find lots of useful information to help you make the right choices for your family. Whether you want to buy a unit for yourself near the water, a family home that suits your lifestyle, sell your property or expand your property portfolio, we have tips, guides and market information that will make your search so much easier!
Domestic and international buyers and sellers will find plenty of useful information, along with market updates that we post every 6 weeks. From styling, renovating and preparing your property for sale to assessing the rental market, understanding the real estate cycles and managing your investment properties, whatever information will make your life easier, you will find it in the Doyle Spillane Blog!
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Keeping Your Home Safe: A Guide to Smoke Alarms
As the seasons change and daylight savings time comes to an end, it's essential to prioritise the safety of our homes. One critical aspect of home safety that often goes overlooked is the functionality of our smoke alarms. These small devices can make a huge difference in protecting our loved ones and property in the event of a fire. In this...
Why use a Professional Property Manager
Many property investors choose to manage their property themselves and some are quite successful. However, with the time that is involved in collecting rents, managing arrears, arranging repairs, ensuring that the rest is at market level, finding the best tenants (together with checking references), most owners have discovered that their time...
Head above Water - 24 Hour Swimathon
Next month, the Head Above Water 24-Hour Swimathon returns to Collaroy Rockpool for the sixth year, after raising over $650,000 from 2019 to 2023 for mental fitness and suicide prevention programs across the Northern Beaches and throughout Australia. Head Above Water was founded by Collaroy Plateau local Andrew ‘Wardy’ Ward and a...
Tips for Successful Property Management!
Tips for Successful Property Management! A bad tenant experience has frightened many a property investor away from what is considered one of the most popular forms of investing in Australia. Property Investment does not need to be cause for regret. Following these keys will greatly increase your chances of property management...
Becoming a Landlord: Top Tips!!!
BECOMING A LANDLORD: TOP TIPS!!! Crack open the champers and celebrate owning your investment property! But before you get too comfortable and think you can just sit back and rake in the rental income, read on… Aussies have long had a passion for property investment. In fact, the ATO says around 20 per cent of taxpayers (or...
Spring Property Market Update
As we enter Spring, more homebuyers are considering their buying/selling options and it’s traditionally the busiest time of the year for the property market. For the third month in a row the RBA has held the cash rate at 4.10% which is welcome news for many homebuyers. Inflation has been slowly decreasing in the past few months to be at...
Maddy Sheekey in Landlords Monthly Update
Strata managed internal smoke alarms misconception explained
Many landlords have a common misconception about their compliance obligations in regard to smoke alarms. Some assume their strata will cover their safety and compliance requirements under the Residential Tenancies Act (RTA), but this is rarely the case. While strata companies conduct annual fire safety checks, they are not required to...
Maddy Sheekey in Top Tips
Distressed property sales are falling across Australia, despite cost pressures
The number of people putting their homes on the market because they can’t afford their mortgage repayments is actually falling, despite cost pressures from rising interest rates and inflation, the latest data reveals. The surprise figures, contained in a Domain report that charted the numbers of distressed listings in each capital city...
Maddy Sheekey in Latest News
Interest rates may have peaked: what it means for property
A growing number of economists say the next move on interest rates will be down after the Reserve Bank of Australia kept interest rates unchanged for a second straight month. The predictions come as buyers and sellers gear up for the traditionally busy spring selling season, with a renewed sense of certainty expected to support activity &ndash...
Melanie Murace in Latest News
Bathroom trends for today and tomorrow
Accessories The days of the predictable colour-coordinated tapware and bland accessories are truly done with. Trending are slim lines, sleek designs, beautifully shaped faucets, shower heads, taps, and accessories in brushed nickel and brass, and, yes, the classics of matt black and chrome are still going strong too. When it comes to...
Melanie Murace in Top Tips
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