When buying a home, whether with the aim of settling right in or renovating, it’s essential to look beyond the façade into the nitty gritty of any works required to achieve your ultimate aim. Whether easy, relatively inexpensive fixes – like filling cracks, re-painting, replacing cracked tiles and re-grouting – or big-ticket structural repairs, being able to spot them allows
As the new year has begun, it is a good time for investors to review their investment portfolio. While easy enough to simply let things continue as they are, the more astute investor will cast their net further, and be regularly, or at least annually, considering ways to improve returns. There are four main ways investors make money: Capital growth,
Colour is everywhere, it permeates all our lives in some way or another. So it is always interesting to read about which colour is declared the “colour of the year.” It will influence a lot of what we see in furniture and homewares as well as fashion in the coming months. This year, Pantone, the world’s most influential colour institute,
Let’s face it, it can be rather frustrating renting a home without being able to change anything and put your own stamp on it. We are borrowing a space to live in when we rent and it can seem all too temporary. But if you wish to make the house you rent more of a home, I’ve highlighted some easy
The team at Noel Jones would like to take this opportunity to wish all of our valued friends, clients and associates a very happy festive season – from the fun, often busy lead-up, and joyful times with family and friends through to those lovely, long January days and into the year ahead. Whether celebrating or laying low, travelling or relaxing
Interest rates have a pronounced effect on the property market, with RBA rate cuts historically pushing house prices upwards. In fact, low interest rates have been a major driver of price growth over the past two decades. Melbourne house prices, according to Domain, strengthened significantly after mid-year rate cuts in 2016, while the RBA’s rate cuts from 4.5% to 1.5%
In light of recent changes to lending laws, interest rate reductions to historic lows, and the property market now evidently swinging upwards, now is an excellent time to step into the investment market, expand an existing portfolio, or take advantage of attractive market conditions and trade up. With timing crucial, and amidst a highly competitive lending environment, recent developments not
Over the coming year we will be moving into a new era with furniture shapes and styles. What is emerging is a lot more of curves and circles in furniture and homewares design. This is a purposeful move away from the straight lines that have dominated design for the good part of the decade. It is being hailed as a
If there’s one item that’s hot in home styling right now, it’s the humble plant. But many of us have had a rude awakening when we’ve realised caring for our new green house guests isn’t as simple as we imagined. Water it when you remember and you’re done, right? If only it were that simple. When it comes to other
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