Hey mate, could you do a vid on areas in and around Brisbane to move to with kids, schools, things to do, etc? Would be hugeky helpful on picking a location.
We brought our house in Upper Mount Gravatt in 1992 (468 mtr sq), for $100,000… couldn’t sell it for $199,000 in 2000, now worth $1,400,000 in 2023. Have a second property just down the rode at Holland Park we bought in 1990 for $98,000 now worth $1.5 million (backs onto a park and is 600 mtrs sq). Both properties are 12 mins from the city. Prices have gone nuts over the past decade!
Margate skinny house is ultra-modern, so expensive to heat/cool - little room for plants, sterile... Most of these houses have small eaves or verandas, wall shade is so important, even the one in Griffin looked hot and covered in air-cons, it needs shade like trees or trellises.. On the last house, you'd park outside and turn the garage into a big living area.
Anyone watching who wants to migrate to Australia but don't think they could afford to buy a house in the major cities (Sydney's median house price is over $1M I believe) should definitely look at regional Australia. My wife and I bought our current 4 bed/1 bath house on over 2000 m2 of land in regional NSW(1/2 an acre) for just $465,000.
Can work for some - but based on 4 years in Port Macquarie, NSW - difficult to move back to City as prices rise faster there; can be difficult (depending on your trade/profession) for both partners to get a (suitable) job; never felt so isolated - nearest towns over an hours hard drive away, little in-between and no different to Port; capital cities several hours drive/rare daily, slow train or very expensive airfare. Little choice in schools or hospitals. But cheap sports clubs, great if you like horse riding, or want your own hobby farm. Generally friendly with great community spirit. Each to his own. It is definitely very different to living in a small rural town or village in England.
Watching from Sydney, those prices seem so cheap. I live in the north west and a standard double storey house on a 300sqm block goes for 1.3+ mil. I can see why people here sell and move to Queensland.
I'm glad there's more to Queensland than Brisbane , so many of the houses especially the newer developments are on tiny blocks with great views of your neighbors bathroom window . "Low maintenance block" = no lawn , no shade trees. It wasn't that many years ago I used to see signs for house and land package from $246,000 , $299,000 , $345,000 etc and then real estate went crazy and now small bare blocks are getting those prices . No wonder many young people feel they cannot get on the property ladder .
Pools are good when you have kids, but when they grow up and leave, the pool never gets used and it becomes a liability, with all the cleaning and chemicals needed.
We had a pool with our kids from the start and it was a great thing. Their mates were always at our place during school holidays. Uni holidays they still made use of it. Now our grandkids love it when they come to stay. But pools can be a pain to look after. Ours has been renovated twice in its 38 years so it would still be an asset when selling…especially given the buyers would most likely be going to a young family … regional NSW.
In Newcastle - and I guess it is the case in other cities - in the older suburbs knock down rebuild is the trend. There are companies that specialise in it. My daughter and hubby bought a house just under $1M but reno bill was going to be $1M. Knock down rebuild was $800k and their bank has valued the house at $2.5M. With the savings they added a deep pool for $110K. You can drive around their suburb and see houses built in the 50’s and 60’s being replaced. The houses work better than reno places because they now have double glazing, ducted air, solar, light coloured roof, better wall and roof insulation.
We live in Burpengary east on acreage. 2.5 acres 4 bedroom old 1980's brick house with a 2 bed granny flat in the yard. 3 big sheds and a set of stables. $1.5 million all day long..many offers but not selling. How does any young person ever get to buy a house...for gods sake we are 40km from Brisbane
"A bit close to next door". 🤣 Welcome to modern property development in SEQ! If you can't touch both houses at once, it probably isn't a new house. I don't think they would get 1.6 for that at Margate unless someone is going to buy it as a rental holiday house. "The beaches around Brisbane" - depends on what you mean by "around Brisbane" I guess. For someone living on the northside, it is only a short hop to the peninsula and not a particularly long drive to Caloundra. Beige and boring does seem to be a thing for spec homes in Australia. A 5 bedder with a pool at Burpengary - yeah a megabuck is about the going rate. The Northlakes place is a little older, but with some reno updates - I think they will get asking or maybe a little over. That Wavell Heights place, the 176m2 is the house size not the property size. There is no way that house and a pool with good space around it would fit on a 176sq.m lot. The land size is 599sq.m. The price is ridiculous, but in the current market they might get it. It isn't a Queenslander, though. Queenslanders have deep wraparound verandahs. Now, if instead of north of the city, you go west. You get a lot more bang for your buck.
Pretty much on the money. But hey 600.,000 in Perth Brisbane will Pick you up a 200m/2 townhouse in a strip not too ar from a beach maybe 6o kms from the cbd but depends where you walk. You want beach a dog and kids and half a k from The beach is cool.
Nearly had a heart attack @ that last one in Wavell Heights. J C!! Old - Ewghh old inside - I thought oh well let’s give it an astronomical figure of $600K … WOT!
😮every time I see these modern houses with the triple fold doors opening onto the outdoor area, I just imagine the flies (daytime) and mossies (nighttime) laughing their heads off as they zoom inside. Not sensible in Oz at all.
A few years ago Australian houses were more expensive than UK - bit since last year, when UK property prices went on average 30% UP, Brisbane seems sooooo cheap in comparison to most major cities in the UK - even here in Leicester it is mor expensive! And almost no one has a pool 😐 only those £2mln (4mln AUD) houses
@@ThatJohnstonLife ok I have a disability’s called Huntions’ disease and I decided that life is short so I’m going to have to talk to someone to see if I can migrate down there with a disability thanks
Oh dear- just scanned the comments - looks like you’ve made a “rod for yr back” there - lots of “more of this”requests I see. I’m sure there’s no legal issues re showing homes that are actually for sale (under contact even) nor, I guess, are there any probs showing properties recently for sale, now off the market either. The safe alternative re filming the subject of Housing Prices is to go down the “Average House Price in a set list or burbs” deal. Usually similar found in the weekend papers lift out. What’s the allowed word count percentage for info lifted from the weekend papers then? The previous two options would be a tad boring when juxtaposed beside yr other vids like Australia Zoo, Bird Sanctuary & POV Interviews with new immigrants “straight off the boat”. The Last option is to go all out with drone, car and camera under the guise of subterfuge filming. Again I don’t know the court viewpoint on filming this stuff. *** I like the filming of Australia from in the car as you take drives around the joint. Plenty to see - surely there aren’t rules governing filming while you drive! *** It’s a conundrum it is.
Coming from England, where everything in the home is beige including carpets, has dunny doors in each room, pokey bedrooms, pine skirting boards, a snug, tiny kitchens, steep narrow staircases where you take your life in to your own hands, cruddy bathrooms and toilets with carpet on the floors!! Oh the stench. Basically no style, even the new houses on estates look they were built in the sixties externally. Seriously mate, look in your own backyard before knocking some features and styling in houses here.
@@zed5129 what's not making sense. Nit picking homes here, when he really should not be proud of the so called homes he left behind. Seen enough of what style entails in England to say even the crappiest house here is ten fold better than the rubbish over there. Yes carpet in toilets and bathrooms, who does that???
If it's meant to be humorous I am not laughing. Been.there, done that with some English work colleagues that would do nothing but complain about stupid things. Must be in the gene pool. Don't worry, not commenting any more. Not watching any more. Thanks for your reply.
Redcliffe is not the same as it used to be 5-7 years ago. Lot of housos got kicked out further north towards Caboolture. You won’t pay, but there are 100’s who would.
I went to UK and houses around london were so old and in a bad condition, it looked like people were living in slums. Australia looks so much better and cleaner than most of the UK.
470 square metres. ROFL. What happened to the quarter acre. I have moved from 990 square metre in Sydney to 1390sqr with rain forest at the rear on the far north coast and have no clue what you are talking about. You to can have the same for $600k and drive 20 minutes to Byron.
Hey mate, could you do a vid on areas in and around Brisbane to move to with kids, schools, things to do, etc? Would be hugeky helpful on picking a location.
We brought our house in Upper Mount Gravatt in 1992 (468 mtr sq), for $100,000… couldn’t sell it for $199,000 in 2000, now worth $1,400,000 in 2023.
Have a second property just down the rode at Holland Park we bought in 1990 for $98,000 now worth $1.5 million (backs onto a park and is 600 mtrs sq).
Both properties are 12 mins from the city.
Prices have gone nuts over the past decade!
Good investments
Love this video... Please do more! ❤😀🤩
This is so helpful, can you do Sydney next please?
He's trying to encourage people to move here, not scare them :D
Now, the team at Image Property are great. I may be biased tho ;-)
Margate skinny house is ultra-modern, so expensive to heat/cool - little room for plants, sterile...
Most of these houses have small eaves or verandas, wall shade is so important, even the one in Griffin looked hot and covered in air-cons, it needs shade like trees or trellises..
On the last house, you'd park outside and turn the garage into a big living area.
Anyone watching who wants to migrate to Australia but don't think they could afford to buy a house in the major cities (Sydney's median house price is over $1M I believe) should definitely look at regional Australia. My wife and I bought our current 4 bed/1 bath house on over 2000 m2 of land in regional NSW(1/2 an acre) for just $465,000.
Don't even need to go regional, you can easily get that in Ipswich, around 30km from Brisbane CBD.
@@jackren8471 exactly. Was gonna say the same! I've houses with even more land (2 acres an over) in Ipswich area
Can work for some - but based on 4 years in Port Macquarie, NSW - difficult to move back to City as prices rise faster there; can be difficult (depending on your trade/profession) for both partners to get a (suitable) job; never felt so isolated - nearest towns over an hours hard drive away, little in-between and no different to Port; capital cities several hours drive/rare daily, slow train or very expensive airfare. Little choice in schools or hospitals. But cheap sports clubs, great if you like horse riding, or want your own hobby farm. Generally friendly with great community spirit. Each to his own. It is definitely very different to living in a small rural town or village in England.
Great insight, for Aus they seem to be good prices really.
Last one would be for a good knockdown rebuild or resubdivsion or look at doing mta or sta accomodation as an investment
Watching from Sydney, those prices seem so cheap. I live in the north west and a standard double storey house on a 300sqm block goes for 1.3+ mil. I can see why people here sell and move to Queensland.
I'm glad there's more to Queensland than Brisbane , so many of the houses especially the newer developments are on tiny blocks with great views of your neighbors bathroom window . "Low maintenance block" = no lawn , no shade trees.
It wasn't that many years ago I used to see signs for house and land package from $246,000 , $299,000 , $345,000 etc and then real estate went crazy and now small bare blocks are getting those prices .
No wonder many young people feel they cannot get on the property ladder .
Pools are good when you have kids, but when they grow up and leave, the pool never gets used and it becomes a liability, with all the cleaning and chemicals needed.
Can i come to yours at christmas? You sound a right hoot.
We had a pool with our kids from the start and it was a great thing. Their mates were always at our place during school holidays. Uni holidays they still made use of it. Now our grandkids love it when they come to stay. But pools can be a pain to look after. Ours has been renovated twice in its 38 years so it would still be an asset when selling…especially given the buyers would most likely be going to a young family … regional NSW.
In Newcastle - and I guess it is the case in other cities - in the older suburbs knock down rebuild is the trend. There are companies that specialise in it. My daughter and hubby bought a house just under $1M but reno bill was going to be $1M. Knock down rebuild was $800k and their bank has valued the house at $2.5M. With the savings they added a deep pool for $110K. You can drive around their suburb and see houses built in the 50’s and 60’s being replaced. The houses work better than reno places because they now have double glazing, ducted air, solar, light coloured roof, better wall and roof insulation.
Great idea
We live in Burpengary east on acreage. 2.5 acres 4 bedroom old 1980's brick house with a 2 bed granny flat in the yard. 3 big sheds and a set of stables. $1.5 million all day long..many offers but not selling. How does any young person ever get to buy a house...for gods sake we are 40km from Brisbane
Can you do a video on perth Properties? Please
I had snapped up many seaview apartments in 2017 at east perth with good rentals and not landed big houses here !!!! 👍🍺👍
Prices are rizing here on the southside too, lol..oh see ya Saturday
Nice to meet you Tammy!
@@ThatJohnstonLife it was nice meeting both of you, sorry didnt get to chat as much, and that we on complete opposites sides of town lol
I know Reading, I'm in Didcot, half way between Reading and Oxford👍
"A bit close to next door". 🤣 Welcome to modern property development in SEQ! If you can't touch both houses at once, it probably isn't a new house. I don't think they would get 1.6 for that at Margate unless someone is going to buy it as a rental holiday house.
"The beaches around Brisbane" - depends on what you mean by "around Brisbane" I guess. For someone living on the northside, it is only a short hop to the peninsula and not a particularly long drive to Caloundra. Beige and boring does seem to be a thing for spec homes in Australia. A 5 bedder with a pool at Burpengary - yeah a megabuck is about the going rate. The Northlakes place is a little older, but with some reno updates - I think they will get asking or maybe a little over.
That Wavell Heights place, the 176m2 is the house size not the property size. There is no way that house and a pool with good space around it would fit on a 176sq.m lot. The land size is 599sq.m. The price is ridiculous, but in the current market they might get it. It isn't a Queenslander, though. Queenslanders have deep wraparound verandahs.
Now, if instead of north of the city, you go west. You get a lot more bang for your buck.
What's Ipswich like or even Toowoomba?
Coming from Vancouver Canada, everything is extremely cheap down there.
Brisbanes Median price is $806,000 and isn't really a comparison for Vancouver...Sydney would be with median house price of $1,333,000.
Pretty much on the money. But hey 600.,000 in Perth Brisbane will
Pick you up a 200m/2 townhouse in a strip not too ar from a beach maybe 6o kms from the cbd but depends where you walk. You want beach a dog and kids and half a k from
The beach is cool.
Well done
property market is scary - we moving to Mel in december
Nearly had a heart attack @ that last one in Wavell Heights. J C!!
Old - Ewghh old inside - I thought oh well let’s give it an astronomical figure of $600K … WOT!
😮every time I see these modern houses with the triple fold doors opening onto the outdoor area, I just imagine the flies (daytime) and mossies (nighttime) laughing their heads off as they zoom inside. Not sensible in Oz at all.
Same
I might have to leave perth and go to brizzie for houses that price! 😍
Perth will have to be soon!
A few years ago Australian houses were more expensive than UK - bit since last year, when UK property prices went on average 30% UP, Brisbane seems sooooo cheap in comparison to most major cities in the UK - even here in Leicester it is mor expensive! And almost no one has a pool 😐 only those £2mln (4mln AUD) houses
Exchange rate right now is helping too
I am flying to Australia soon what was the name of the migration agent you used
Always recommend using True Blue Migration, all the details are in the description
@@ThatJohnstonLife ok I have a disability’s called Huntions’ disease and I decided that life is short so I’m going to have to talk to someone to see if I can migrate down there with a disability thanks
I left old Newport and moved to kippa .. my in-laws just sold their house and property in morayfield to developers
I don't actually think Aus is that well priced in comparison to the UK anymore. It's the same if not a bit more depending on where you are.
Oh dear- just scanned the comments - looks like you’ve made a “rod for yr back” there - lots of “more of this”requests I see.
I’m sure there’s no legal issues re showing homes that are actually for sale (under contact even) nor, I guess, are there any probs showing properties recently for sale, now off the market either. The safe alternative re filming the subject of Housing Prices is to go down the “Average House Price in a set list or burbs” deal. Usually similar found in the weekend papers lift out. What’s the allowed word count percentage for info lifted from the weekend papers then?
The previous two options would be a tad boring when juxtaposed beside yr other vids like Australia Zoo, Bird Sanctuary & POV Interviews with new immigrants “straight off the boat”.
The Last option is to go all out with drone, car and camera under the guise of subterfuge filming.
Again I don’t know the court viewpoint on filming this stuff.
***
I like the filming of Australia from in the car as you take drives around the joint. Plenty to see - surely there aren’t rules governing filming while you drive!
***
It’s a conundrum it is.
Will keep giving it a try
$1.5m... 400sqm... pfft - Meanwhile here in Sydney that gets you a 1 bed apartment.
Coming from England, where everything in the home is beige including carpets, has dunny doors in each room, pokey bedrooms, pine skirting boards, a snug, tiny kitchens, steep narrow staircases where you take your life in to your own hands, cruddy bathrooms and toilets with carpet on the floors!! Oh the stench. Basically no style, even the new houses on estates look they were built in the sixties externally. Seriously mate, look in your own backyard before knocking some features and styling in houses here.
Read 3 times. Still not making sense.
@@zed5129 what's not making sense. Nit picking homes here, when he really should not be proud of the so called homes he left behind. Seen enough of what style entails in England to say even the crappiest house here is ten fold better than the rubbish over there. Yes carpet in toilets and bathrooms, who does that???
That's what you took from this video? Negative Nancy.
If it's meant to be humorous I am not laughing. Been.there, done that with some English work colleagues that would do nothing but complain about stupid things. Must be in the gene pool.
Don't worry, not commenting any more. Not watching any more. Thanks for your reply.
I wouldn’t pay over a mil to live in Redcliffe 😂😂
That wouldn't even buy you a terraced house in London 😅 £800k perhaps.
Redcliffe is not the same as it used to be 5-7 years ago. Lot of housos got kicked out further north towards Caboolture. You won’t pay, but there are 100’s who would.
@@maciejgronowskiIt is same in Sydney, but here he is talking about suburbs north of Brisbane which are about 30-40 kms of city.
Excuse me, hold up there, but why is nobody discussing those creepy-ass looking internal stairs in that last Heights home?!
390 square metres? What?
Avoid new builds, they are absolute rubbish, take the old one with land closer to town
Mate, I'm getting the impression your wife doesn't want you in any room in the house...🤔😅
Most of the houses built in Australia have the build quality of a shed or mobile home in England, the real price is the handkerchief size plot of land
Don't forget the windows
I went to UK and houses around london were so old and in a bad condition, it looked like people were living in slums. Australia looks so much better and cleaner than most of the UK.
460 square metres? Giggle giggle.
No
470 square metres. ROFL. What happened to the quarter acre. I have moved from 990 square metre in Sydney to 1390sqr with rain forest at the rear on the far north coast and have no clue what you are talking about. You to can have the same for $600k and drive 20 minutes to Byron.
Be quiet, I have three more years until I retire, don't let the secret out please 😂
Byron tweed is very expensive now you must have bought it ten years ago for 600000