Author: Adam Nobel

Renovating a kitchen, bathroom, laundry – anywhere plumbing is involved – can be tricky for the novice. Homeowners who dive unprepared into complex projects such as bathroom and kitchen renovations can soon find themselves in hot water. Beyond the technical…

Lending to homebuyers continues to break records, according to data released this week by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). The latest figures show that new loans for housing rose 4.4% to a record high value of $32.8 billion (seasonally…

Breathing new life into the ancient art of ‘stained-glass’, a window that harvests solar energy and can charge your mobile phone sounds like more than just a design feature. The aptly-named Current Window by Dutch designer Marjan van Aubel is…

One of the potential problems with living in a ‘tiny house’ could be a feeling of being hemmed in. But how would it be if you could manually rotate the home to soak up as much sunshine and views as…

Land for new homes is not keeping pace with demand and, as a consequence, prices will increase further, new research predicts. The HIA-CoreLogic Residential Land Report shows that over the year to September 2021, the median price of land in…

Australia’s residential real estate market soared through 2021, with record-breaking sales and a meteoric rise in values, a new report shows. Aussie’s Property Market Update for January 2022 notes that the estimated value of residential real estate reached record highs…

From this week, Queensland’s property buyers will no longer automatically lose their deposit if the settlement deadline falls through. Under a controversial rule, Queensland was the only Australian state that didn’t grant a two-week grace period if a deadline fell…

Right now, your garden or balcony is probably a riot of colour, as flowering plants, shrubs and rose bushes celebrate the warm, wet, mid-summer growing season. But how can you keep the colours bright, once the cooler months come around…

Are you itching to start growing your own food but have no room for a garden? LG has you covered, with its latest invention unveiled at CES 2022 this month. LG’s ‘Tiiun’ (which means ‘to sprout’ in Korean) is a…

Owner-occupier lending rebounded in November, according to data released this week by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). The latest figures show that the value of new loans for housing rose 6.3% to $31.4 billion in November 2021 (seasonally adjusted),…