SLOWER price growth coupled with rising rents have presented investors with new cash flow opportunities north of Sydney.

PROPERTY investors should buy in the outskirts of Sydney to get the best rental returns, new data suggests.The CoreLogic research showed 17 of the top 20 suburbs with the highest average rental yields in the Greater Sydney region were over 16km from the CBD. And almost half were in the Central Coast region.

BRISBANE is back among Australia’s fastest-growing cities, but more people are flocking to areas outside the state’s capital, new figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics show.

Brisbane’s population hit 2.4 million in June 2017, according to ABS figures. Source:Supplied

BRISBANE is back among Australia’s fastest-growing cities thanks to a growth spurt, but more people are flocking to areas outside the state’s capital. New figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics show the city’s population grew by 48,000 in the year to June 2017 to hit 2.4 million — the fastest rate of growth in four years.

THIS affordable property market is tipped for a resurgence of interest driven by a huge new employment driver.

THE Ipswich property market is tipped to take off following the awarding of a massive defence contract to the region. The $5 billion contract for 211 hi-tech armoured vehicles announced earlier this year, is tipped to create defence jobs for the region for about 40 years. Other state government commitments to spending on infrastructure and roads in the area would also help create a construction boom. With a reasonably low median house price in the area it is a more affordable option for many buyers, particularly when compared to Brisbane’s median house price of a much higher $530,000.

Redbank Plains – Town Centre Source: Powe Architects http://www.powearchitects.com/portfolio/redbank-plains-shopping-centre/

People are voting with their feet, and the verdict is that Queensland's economy is on the way back up, after being in the doldrums. That's the verdict from Deloitte Access Economics' latest Business Outlookreport.

In the past year, Queensland overtook Victoria to receive the most interstate migrants of any state, while migrant numbers from overseas to the Sunshine State continued to rise.

Sydney residents are packing their bags to move to Queensland to escape high housing prices, a Deloitte report says.

Check out the progress of the estate at Redbank, Qld where Silverhall clients have invested. Stage 1 is complete and owner occupiers and tenants are moving in. We really like how the parks and streetscape has come up. Here are some pictures of the various sites.