Author: Adam Nobel

Love moving house but now is not the right time? You could indulge all your setting up in a new home dreams with a brand-new video game called Unpacking. Created by Australian studio Witch Beam, the award-winning game allows players…

We so often hear that location is gold in property, and it certainly has come up sparkling for the owner of a mountainside home in Aspen, Colorado. Described by the selling agent as ‘ski-in, ski-out’, the house is one of…

House prices lifted household wealth even higher in the March quarter of this year, according to data released this week by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). The new figures show that total household wealth increased 1.2% ($173b) in the…

July is Plastic Free month, when households around the world are challenged to live more sustainably by refusing single-use plastic. If your family decides to take up the challenge, the plasticfreejuly.org website has tips to get you through the month,…

Affordability declined in some parts of Australia in the early months of this year, new research has revealed. The latest Real Estate Institute of Australia (REIA) housing affordability report shows a decline over the March quarter 2022, with the proportion…

No longer just a way to access your home or to keep the marauding enemy at bay, doors these days are as much a statement about you as anything else in your home. Doors, particularly the front door, play an…

It might seem like a cold part of the world right now, but Melbourne has been named one of the world’s top ten best cities to live in. Victoria’s capital ranked 10th on the Economist Intelligence Unit’s Global Liveability Index,…

Would-be gardeners can usually keep a cactus or succulent alive, even if their green fingers fail them with most other plants. But for those who love indoor plants and flowers but just can’t grow them, LEGO has released its Botanical…

Over the past few months we’ve been seeing reports of housing industry businesses facing insolvency. Yet at the same time, we’re also hearing that there is plenty of work in the pipeline, and not enough tradespeople to do it. So…

Investors are not the driving force behind property price hikes, new research suggests. A study conducted by BMT Tax Depreciation has revealed that the value of an average Australian investment property is well below the average value of all national…