We were very lucky last year in November to buy an Urban Renewal home at Woodridge Qld for $85,000. The original contract had crashed and we were next in line. I bought virtually sight unseen . I said I’d take it just like that hadn’t even seen it.
This was of course just before prices started to sky rocket.
This type of house now sells for about $140,000 only 11 months later. There are still some houses being renewed but are going very fast. Sell as soon as they come on the market.
Urban renewals are a very good buy.
They are ex housing commission houses that have been completely renovated.
There is polished floorboards, new kichen, new bathroom, new fences, new gardens and new carport.Hi Casey. Forgive my ignorance regarding Qld. Are they in housing commission suburbs or spread amongst all suburbs? Where I grew up they lumped them all together until a few years ago when the housing commission started buying cheap houses in regular areas.
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Woodridge is a mixture. Most of the HC houses were grouped together. These UR are very good as the whole street gets a makeover and it looks really goodI’ve also heard some great stories about Woodridge properties increasing in value, good on you for investing there despite it’s bad reputation. I think the whole south-side along the railway line is going up and up at the moment.
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[email protected]“They are ex housing commission houses that have been completely renovated.
There is polished floorboards, new kichen, new bathroom, new fences, new gardens and new carport.
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Now I know the official name for what i did to my second IP!These areas are great!
I bought in Medina shortly after the Kwinana (WA) area had been “renewed”. Sold it for a nice profit to buy my current property – and to a buyer that hadn’t even inspected inside. He can’t be unhappy though as it came with a good tenant and would have already gained between contract date and settlement!
In Perth these renewals have been in Kwinana, Armadale, Balga and surrounds and if I was buying again soon I’d be snuffling around for where the next “urban renewal” project was going to be. I think Satterly are the developers in WA if anyone wants to do some digging.
One of the problems with Urban Renewals is that they can only be bought (first buy) by an owner/occupier and not investor. They can be resold later to anyone wanting to purchase.
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In WA anyone can buy the ‘Urban Renewal’ properties. Caz, you still buying in Kwinana? I’m building an IP on a block in Parmelia, Department of Housing sold it to me 6 months ago for 27k with 6k worth of building incentives. Now these’s no full size house lots avaiable unber 40k.
I think there’ll be a heap more growth there as they progressively build the bus station neat the shopping centre and then the train line in three years, and it still has good rental yields (not quite 11 second stuff).
Brett
Hi Brett
How do you hear about these deals/offers? They sound fantastic!Mishy
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