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  • Rental Yields Fall In Fast-Growing Areas

          The rapid increase in house prices in some parts of Australia has resulted in dramatic drop in rental yields in those areas according to a recent report by rpdata.com.One of the biggest surprise falls in rents occurred in the resource-rich mining town of Collinsville in North Queensland where housing yields fell by 2.4% ...
    Posted to Australian Real Estate Blog (Weblog) by Peter Mericka on January 25, 2010
  • Tough Going For Northern Territory Tenants

    OPINIONby Tim O'Dwyer M.A., LL.BSolicitorConsumer Advocate watchdog@argonautlegal.com.au   Below is the slightly edited text of an email and attachment I received this week from a very distressed Darwin couple. I have referred them to local solicitors for legal advice, and to a television current affairs programme. ''Dear Mr. Tim ...
    Posted to Australian Real Estate Blog (Weblog) by Peter Mericka on July 5, 2009
  • RentPay Fees

    Hi, I was wondering if anyone came acros this system before? And if you did, do you find this new system of paying reasonable or a rip-off? It sounds to me that my real estate agent had trouble juggling with incoming rent payments and sending off the money to the right people. They had trouble identifying who had paid their rent and hasn't. ...
    Posted to This is what happened to me... (Forum) by genii6 on March 11, 2009
  • Real case happened to me about the property agent

    I have a real case happening on me that i received a ''Notice of rent increase to tenant/s'' for one year rent starting from August 2008 to August 2009 from a property agent (MI..). However, we want a half year rent so i went to the property agent to ask them to make a half year contact to me again and let me think about it. After that they didn't ...
    Posted to This is what happened to me... (Forum) by man on November 22, 2008
  • Re: Agents scams when renting.

    Hi Margaret.  Not only is there a breach of ethics, but there may also be a breach of the law.  Unfortunately, very few consumers take any real action against estate agents.  I know that the regulating authorities are constantly overwhelmed with reports and complaints, but these are still represent the fraction that could/should be ...
    Posted to This is what happened to me... (Forum) by Peter Mericka on June 18, 2008
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