Author: Adam Nobel

Who doesn’t love seeing photos of dogs being cute? That seems to be the idea behind the marketing campaign for a home in Bloomington, Indiana, which features rescue pups in its listing photos. Provided by local rescue groups, the dogs…

Owners of property left vacant for more than six months in a year will be taxed in a push to make more homes available to people who need them, the Victorian Government announced this week. Hundreds of properties in apartment…

How safe is the soil you buy to landscape your garden? The Guardian Australia this week published the results of a study conducted over the past few months, and they are not looking good. In fact, the study revealed that…

Winter settles in this weekend, so it’s time to check smoke alarms to make sure they’re installed properly and working. It’s easy to do: just press the test button on the alarm cover (if you can’t reach it, use a…

As this Saturday brings Autumn to a close and ‘tax time’ approaches, the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) is again warning it will be taking a close look at claims for rental properties. ATO Assistant Commissioner Rob Thomson says data shows…

In a competitive market, how do you make your apartment stand out from all the others? By making it look bigger, brighter and promising! Here are some tips: Reduce clutter – an apartment is a small space so it is…

It might seem a little ghoulish, but a house that was riddled with bullets in the American Civil War was still being lived in as a family home right up to 1969. After an intense battle near Fredericksburg, Virginia, ‘Innis…

A home cantilevered over a sea-side cliff has been named Home of the Year, the highest accolade in the 2024 HIA-CSR Australian Housing Awards, announced this week. Suspended on the edge of an unbelievably steep slope, the home moulds to…

Some home loan lenders have made accessing financial assistance so difficult that more than one in three Australians dropped out of the application process at least once, according to a new ASIC report. The report, ‘Hardship, hard to get help:…

With all the rain the eastern states have been having lately, it is not surprising that mould has made an appearance again. Sometimes it is pink, sometimes green or black – is there any difference between the colours? Pink mould…