Buying a retirement villa for my grandma

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Buying a retirement villa for my grandma

Changing Homes? 3 Sharp Strategies To Win Upgrades From Your Furniture Removalist

22 December 2016
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A 2007-08 Survey of Income and Housing indicated that 43 per cent of people had moved in the last 5 years, reflecting the nationwide trend of people shifting frequently between homes. Moving from one home to another is not only stressful, but it can also end up being expensive. To combat the costs of moving, you can seek to win some upgrades when you hire a furniture removalist for your moving needs.
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Buying waterfront land to build a new property

7 December 2016
 Categories: Real Estate, Blog

Buying waterfront land has historically been a great investment. However, with rising sea levels and severe storms lashing the eastern coastline for the last year, it has become a more challenging prospect. Planning ahead means that you can maximise your investment to build a beautiful and valuable new property.  Here are some things to research when you are buying land on which to build a new property.  Council setbacks A growing number of local councils, wary of the possibility of legal action, are requiring houses to be set further back from the waterfront than properties have traditionally been allowed to built.
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Real estate agents: Commercial cleaning companies should be your close ally

7 December 2016
 Categories: Real Estate, Blog

In today's property market, making a sale can be more than challenging for real estate agents. In this regard, property agents need to tie all loose ends and leave nothing to chance. Trying to sell a property that is dirty is a huge mistake. A prospective buyer is likely to be turned off. This is why a real estate agent should work with a professional janitorial service for pre-sale property cleaning.
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Rekeying vs. Replacing Locks: Which Is the Ideal Option for Your Home?

6 December 2016
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Carrying around a bunch of keys that open the doors to your home can be exhausting for most people. Even worse is getting locked out of your home after losing the keys without a spare key at hand. If you find yourself in any of these situations, you may be considering rekeying or replacing your locks. Before making a choice between the two options, it is worth analyzing the following issues.
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Demolition Advice For Property Developers

30 November 2016
 Categories: Real Estate, Blog

Many Australians take part in property development nowadays. As more of us purchase property in order to reshape it, reimagine it and re-let it, so more and more buildings are being demolished, either in part or in whole. Sometimes this can lead to a fully renovated section of the dwelling, but on other occasions, it might mean being able to maximise the resale value of a property by offering two homes where one had stood.
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Buying a retirement villa for my grandma

My grandma has just moved to Australia. Unfortunately, even though she sold her home in South Africa before she moved here, she doesn't have enough money for her own home. We have been looking at all sorts of options for her to be able to live independently, and we settled on a retirement villa as the best option for her. When you start looking at different retirement villages you start to see the differences in the facilities at the different villages. This blog talks about the process of choosing a retirement villa and shows how we found the perfect place for my grandma.

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