I’ve lived in open plan set ups in three different homes for the past 14 years. Love it! It is noisier but great for family living. It also trains you to keep the kitchen a little neater but best of all it really means the kitchen is the hub and who ever does the cooking is not shut out of the action. The hob works well but then so does a bench.…[Read more]

Another way. We couldn’t give our teens / early twenties kids the money to help them get a start in R/E, but, we had equity in the family home. So with that as security and the combined earning capacity of all of us
(Mum Dad and 3 adult kids -2 studying full time) we borrowed to buy land, build and sell on. Works well under a family trust…[Read more]

If you are going to live in the suburb and you have a teenager, particularly a new migrant teen I would choose a suburb like Heathridge or Joondalup. They have similar priced properties to Nollamara.(I feel there is a good cross section of cultures in the area so kids from any country will fit in).
I really can’t comment on Balga or Nollamara to…[Read more]

They are offering a 3bed 1 bathroom oldish home on a triplex blocks in Balga at the moment. It’s advertised for $425,000 for it. Another triplex site with a 3 bed 1 bathroom is offered at up to $465,000. Both places have tenants. The area seems to have a high number of large blocks. Not sure how the homes are situated on the land but if they are…[Read more]

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Totally agree Ned Kelly. We are able to sell off plans with block (duplex) barely settled and making $100K each 4×2. house. That buy was in Hocking. This frees us up to do it again, but the problem is finding more duplex blocks! Not an easy task.
So we also started looking at single residential. One particularly appealing subdivision…[Read more]