March 2010

Melbourne House Prices: What the media aren’t telling you

30 March 2010

You may have heard that over the long term, property prices tend to double every 7-10 years.
This is based on the assumption that property, on average, grows by 10% per year.
As evidenced in the graph above, courtesy of RPData, this seems to be proving true in the Melbourne property market.
Or is it?

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Property Investment Strategies: Buy to Subdivide

23 March 2010

* Image courtesy of Kriss Szkurlatowski
Property Investing Trivia:
“You must own a property, in order to find out if it can be subdivided”.
True or False?

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Brutal Art … by Robin Boyd?

16 March 2010

We often get asked where the name Brutal Art came from.
It actually came from a quote by one of our favourite Australian architects, Robin Boyd:
“This often brutal and always mercenary industry is, in fact, involuntarily directed at a remote distance by intellectual and artistic passion beyond its ken. – Robin Boyd”

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House Build Cost Savings: Design for Roofline

9 March 2010

Congratulations – you’ve decided to build your dream home!
You review your architect’s concept floorplan, “House A” (above), and really like it, but decide it would be even better if you moved a wall or two to make it look like “House B“.
Since they both have the same floor area, there won’t be any difference in [...]

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Be an Architect for a Day: design your dream home!

2 March 2010

Planning on building your dream home this year?
Like to be actively involved in the design of your new home?
If so, why not be an Architect for a Day?
Our FAST TRACK Concept Workshop is a unique experience that:

Empowers you to design your dream home with a little help from us,
Saves you time by eliminating weeks of [...]

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