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The Brisbane 2032 venue plan: what is being built, where and when
A plain guide to the 2032 Delivery Plan: the 17 venues, who builds them, what they cost, how they are approved and where each project stood in mid-June 2026.
Gold Coast holds its rates rise to 4.7 per cent after dropping 5.7
The Gold Coast's $2.7 billion budget lifts owner-occupier rates by 4.7 per cent and keeps the 10 per cent discount, ten days after councillors rejected a higher figure.
Making an offer on a Queensland home: from first figure to signed contract
In Queensland an offer is usually a signed contract waiting for the seller's signature. How price, conditions, deposit and competing offers work before the deal becomes binding.
Payment redirection scams in property sales: the checks that stop them
How a deposit or settlement payment gets diverted to a false account in a Queensland sale, the moments of risk, and the checks the profession tells clients to make.
Reserve Bank holds at 4.35% and says housing momentum has shifted
The Reserve Bank left the cash rate unchanged on 16 June after three rises this year. Its statement notes falling prices in some capitals; Brisbane is not yet among them.
Title searches rise to $25.71 as Titles Queensland lifts fees on 1 July
Titles Queensland has confirmed its 2026-27 fees. The searches every seller needs for a disclosure statement cost about 4 per cent more from 1 July.
What a Queensland agent must disclose to a buyer and to a seller
Queensland agents must tell sellers about fees, rebates and any personal interest, and tell buyers about benefits and relationships behind a referral. The forms, timing and limits.
AI-written listing descriptions: who answers for the errors?
How text generators draft a property description, why they invent features, distances and school zones, and who carries the legal responsibility for the wording in Queensland.
AUSTRAC guidance: delayed checks due 28 days in, or 3 before settlement
AUSTRAC updated its guidance on 12 June. A delayed customer check in a property sale must now be finished within 28 days of exchange or three days before settlement.
Brisbane sellers keep choosing auction as bookings rise 15 per cent
Brisbane held 144 auctions in the week ending 14 June, about 13 per cent more than a year earlier, and the early clearance rate recovered to 42.0 per cent, Cotality figures show.
Housing infrastructure fund's second round is doubled to $1 billion
Round two of Queensland's Residential Activation Fund will hand out $1 billion instead of $500 million, after 209 applications arrived, most from outside the south-east.
How Queensland home price indexes work, and why they give different numbers
Median sale prices, stratified medians and hedonic indexes all claim to measure the same market. A plain guide to what Cotality, PropTrack, the ABS and the REIQ each count.
Ten units and a suitability test: Queensland's auctioneer licence path
Calling a property auction in Queensland takes its own licence. What it authorises, the ten training units, the suitability test, the application and the renewal cycle.
Lenders trim variable rates days before the June Reserve Bank meeting
Eleven lenders, Bank of Queensland and Queensland Country Bank among them, have cut variable rates since the May rise. Forty now advertise a rate under 6 per cent.
More than half of Brisbane auctions passed in during first week of June
Cotality's final figures put Brisbane's clearance rate at 34.1 per cent for the week ending 7 June, its lowest in six years, with 56.3 per cent of auctions passed in.
Appointing an agent to sell in Queensland: Form 6 and the three listings
Before an agent can market a Queensland home, both sides sign Form 6. What the form must say, how open, sole and exclusive appointments differ, and how long each lasts.
How real estate commission works in Queensland: negotiated and written
Queensland sets no commission scale. The rate is whatever a client and an agent agree, and it binds only as written on the appointment. How the system works, from first quote to final deduction.
Lakesview at Robina wins State approval for 2,500 Gold Coast homes
The Queensland Government has approved the Lakesview project at Robina through its State Facilitated Development pathway, the largest approval the pathway has produced.
Brokers now write 81 per cent of new home loans, a record share
Industry figures for the March quarter put mortgage brokers behind four in five new home loans. How the channel works, and where Queensland's own banks stand in it.
Verification of identity: the check before a Queensland e-settlement
Why a buyer or seller is asked for a passport before an electronic settlement: the reasonable steps duty, the optional Standard, who may run the check and what is kept.