Category Archives: property management

3 fast weekend jobs to tidy your property

Middle Park weekend cleanup tips

There are a number of little jobs you can do to clean up the exterior of your Brisbane home at this time of year that will provide immediate improvement to the overall presentation of your property.  These tasks are great for selling your home or getting your rental ready for an inspection but also good for when you want to present the best version of your home for a dinner party or family barbeque.  We all get so busy that these jobs can easily get away on us over the winter months. Continue reading

12 of the most common defects that appear on a building & pest inspection report

Pre-sale checklist (house and text)

When you’re thinking of selling your home, property maintenance is often the first item on the ‘to-do list’.  Addressing anything that might come up in your building and pest report means a better contract on your home.  Why?  Because this removes buyer objections and provides fewer options for price negotiation or inflated ‘cost of repair’ ideas based on perceived defects.

Everything about selling is all in the home presentation,  showing your home at it’s best.  It’s therefore essential to take care of these small and large handyman jobs.  Attention to both interior and exterior details will secure a better price for your property.  Here are the top 12 most common defects that come up in a building and pest reportContinue reading

What makes a good rental property?

Rental Properties

Today I spoke to our property management team Antony Laing and Jude Naylor to ask what makes a good investment  property for rentals in the Centenary Suburbs and what local tenants are looking for.  As it turns out there is a lot of overlap.

NOTE: The Centenary Suburbs are typically thought to include Middle Park,  Jindalee, Mount Ommaney, Jamboree Heights, Westlake, Riverhills and Sumner but more recently Seventeen Mile Rocks and Sinnamon park have also been added. Continue reading