Buying Tips
The Mortgage
Strength in numbers
Kath Dolan More than 40,000 Australians hope group action can bring a better mortgage deal.
Home Base
Be on the lookout for seaside holiday-home bargain
Paul Edwards When times get tough, the holiday home is often the first thing to go, meaning there's a stirring by the sea for bargain hunters.
Money
Loan ranger: Choosing the right mortgage
Lesley Parker Borrowers need to make sure they're not wearing rose-coloured glasses when they go shopping for a mortgage this house-hunting season.
Selling Tips
View from the top of the pile
Paul Best Marketing a prestigious apartment to locals or overseas can cost well into six figures.
Home Base
Be on the lookout for seaside holiday-home bargain
Paul Edwards When times get tough, the holiday home is often the first thing to go, meaning there's a stirring by the sea for bargain hunters.
Q&A;: Advice for buyers and sellers
Lucy Macken Music at open houses, short-term leases and is it a bedroom or is it really a closet?
Owning Tips
Owning rental property is not always a bed of roses
Nick Gardner and Caroline James Landlords to flood back to the market this year, lured by the prospect of rapidly increasing rents and house prices.
VIC
Living on acreage can be challenging
Mary Costello Creating a simple bush lifestyle often requires time, money and a lot of hard labour.
Renting Tips
Rental Rants
When you're charged by a mad cow
Jimmy Thomson Every time I think I've read just about every weird story under the sun, I get something like this. It's not strictly strata but it's a doozy.
Fire callout bill goes up in smoke
Daniel Hurst A Brisbane renter has won a legal battle against a body corporate after it tried to charge him $1500 for accidental fire service callouts.
Flat Chat
How do you clamp down on parking problems?
Jimmy Thomson There's nothing quite like a parking issue to get flatters chatting and a question a couple of weeks ago got a pretty hot and heavy response in the Herald online.
