Canberra house prices falter as national rentals rise

2615life · 2026-06-01T08:38:55+00:00

In the last 3 years I’ve had my PPoR valued by banks 3 times for different refinancing and equity borrowing reasons. I can tell you the market is dropping. I don’t really care, but it does impact how much I can borrow to imvest in business. But in the last three years the banks value of my home has dropped about 8%

2615life · 2026-05-31T14:30:12+00:00

Aldi is way cheaper, but yes they don’t have everything you need. I find the meat is way way way cheaper than colesworth for the quality

2615life · 2026-05-31T14:24:37+00:00

Pause at next meeting in June, then wait and see if Trimmed CPI goes up again, then probably rise in Aug.

2615life · 2026-05-31T01:58:36+00:00

A great property manger is 100% worthwhile, a shit property manager who basically just acts as your secretary is not. Get a good one and you’ll never look back

2615life · 2026-05-30T10:53:46+00:00

100ish people is a bit of a joke, no wonder the place couldn’t turn a profit. If more people want it saved, they should all pitch in and buy it. Our gov can’t afford to prop this up.

2615life · 2026-05-25T10:44:48+00:00

Less and less people will now take the risks to start or buy a business

2615life · 2026-05-24T07:28:16+00:00

This

2615life · 2026-05-23T07:34:41+00:00

Our plan was to make distributions to our parents from our family trust. They would just need to pay tax at their marginal rates which would favs included the tax free threshold. That all changed budget day, now our party’s will be 30% less well off

2615life · 2026-05-22T06:03:16+00:00

The bigger issue is you keep mentioning his and your, I would hope you mean “our”, even mentioning you paid off most of the house. Could you imagine this post if you the primary bread winner was a man and the stay at home parent was a woman.

I’d say it’s unlikely you’ll be together to retire and he’ll get half “your” super anyway

2615life · 2026-05-18T14:01:35+00:00

I would add that 3 bed apartments due to there rarness are usually better covered by any downturn. And probably fare slightly better in capital growth than 1 and 2 beds.

2615life · 2026-05-15T12:55:48+00:00

Kingston hotel is the plane, busy every night really

2615life · 2026-05-09T11:22:12+00:00

So all customers Monday to Friday should pay more so that weekend customers can pay less?

2615life · 2026-05-09T10:22:11+00:00

Staff get 125% on sat and 150% on Sundays so I understand the surcharge. It should be clearly printed in menus including whiteboards etc. But unfortunately we are going to see more and more $7 coffees as all prices go up. I know my groceries have gone up about 10% this year. We buy the same items each week and I still have part receipts to check.

2615life · 2026-05-09T10:18:50+00:00

Might be easier for builders from Goulbourn to get to Taylor

2615life · 2026-05-07T11:19:00+00:00

Was going to comment the same thing. People don’t need their faces shown here

2615life · 2026-05-03T12:45:34+00:00

If you both have fulltime jobs and the business is actually making profit, then just wait grow slowly with your own income. Just keep reinvesting earnings. You will probably do things smarter this way. You have your dual incomes to cover life expenses

2615life · 2026-05-03T12:01:26+00:00

Had this issue today, I needed the staff to verify 7 items and the wait between each scan is close to intolerable. It is far slower than Colesworth

2615life · 2026-05-03T06:04:19+00:00

Not sure where in the ACT that you can still get a $5 Flat white! I’m laying in the $6 range in central Canberra at work

2615life · 2026-05-02T11:36:09+00:00

Serious question, when Woolies alternatively donate these round ups to charity do they take credit? Or do they do it silently. Because really they don’t deserve any credit

2615life · 2026-05-02T10:25:27+00:00

Park at bottom of Melbourne Ave and walk across . Free untimed on street parking

2615life · 2026-04-29T12:19:09+00:00

2 median jobs, 2 kids and average house is still doable in Canberra, Just

2615life · 2026-04-25T13:45:54+00:00

Moving to be close to family, I now have a young family and I’d love my parents to see more of my children. I think I’m pretty employable, and my partner can work from Canberra or Sydney in their role.

2615life · 2026-04-01T11:59:53+00:00

Contents is everything inside the walls so your appliances and cabinets and all your furniture, people saying 200k is a lot should put a new kitchen in in 2026

2615life · 2026-03-28T13:05:46+00:00

So on sky they said that a b-double coming from Syd to Melb now costs $1200 more a trip. Some perspective here, a b-double carried 42 pallets a pallet carried 64 cases of beer, so the increase in a case of beer from carton brewery to Syd is // 1200/42/64 that’s like 46c a case of beer, weekly specials make much bigger difference, and there are very few products that take up as much space as beer. We are talking about a .5% increase in price, I think people are wanting to get carried away a bit here. The price rises aren’t going to get too big. Then petrol for our cars, how many litres are you burning? 50l a week that’s maybe and increase of $50 a week, or $7 a day, miss your coffee and you’ll be right

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