The federal government has announced it will put billions of dollars towards significant projects across the country, accelerating major infrastructure investments in a bid to stimulate the nation’s economy.
Prime minister Scott Morrison announced he would bring forward infrastructure investment announcing $3.8 billion in funding over the next four years.
Record low interest rates and cheap credit could boost Brisbane home prices by up to seven per cent in one year, a new report reveals.
An unprecedented $2 billion is being poured into new runways and airports across southeast Queensland in a job-producing boom that aims to tap into the growing world demand for Queensland tourism and produce.
Brisbane Airport has spent $1.3 billion on a new, parallel runway that will make it the most reliable gateway to the east coast of Australia.
The largest mail facility in the Southern Hemisphere has opened at Redbank ahead of what Australia Post predicts will be its busiest peak Christmas period in history.
The new $240 million facility at Redbank Motorway Estate is the size of eight football fields, has more than 500 people employed on site and is loaded with technology including Automated Guided Vehicles, robotic arms and parcel pickers. It will be able to process 700,000 parcels per day at full capacity.
Lush, green fields and netball courts await thousands of Ipswich sportspeople – both players and supporters – with the opening of the $56 million Springfield Central Sporting Complex.
The City of Logan is fast emerging as a global investment hotspot in south-east Queensland, buoyed by a strong economic track record, historic levels of infrastructure investment in the pipeline and business confidence on the rise.
More Australians are looking to capitalise on the housing market, with a study pinpointing property as the ultimate wealth status symbol.
(BIS Oxford Economics – QBE Housing Report)
The strongest outlook for capital city property prices across the nation is forecast for Brisbane. It is predicted that a combination of rising population growth and rapidly falling supply will fuel this forecast growth. With the Queensland economy also forecast to strengthen, residential price growth is forecast to steadily accelerate by 20.3% through to 2021/22.
Brisbane house market - Opportunity abounds
Tourism is boosting economy and affordability remains advantageous
Brisbane’s residential market did not see the same magnitude of residential price growth over the last cycle compared to Sydney and Melbourne. With affordability less strained…the detached housing market is estimated to be in relative balance with the unit oversupply reflected in the higher vacancy rate in the inner suburbs.
QUEENSLAND is on the cusp of a housing boom fuelled by Sydney and Melbourne’s property woes, with a leading analyst predicting interstate migration to hit a record high by next year — putting upward pressure on home prices.
Ipswich City Council has paved the way for Brisbane Lions to build a boutique football stadium at Springfield Central.
It gives the Lions the green light to start construction on the $70 million facility, which was secured with the financial support of council, the Federal and State Governments, Springfield City Group and the AFL.
