Sunshine Coast Hinterland Times

Property Talk: Capital Gain

Over time property prices historically go up, but by how much and over what period? I recently tracked vacant Rural Residential land values in Flaxton over a period of twenty years from 1990 to 2010. Whilst the annual gain wasn’t consistent, over that period the average was between 10% and 11% per annum. During the last ten of [...]

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Facts about Easements with Tove Easton – Principal Lawyer

An easement is the right to use another person’s land for a stated purpose. It can involve a general or specific portion of the property. An example of where an easement can benefit a property: John owns a tract of land that borders a national park which is a popular area for bushwalking and fishing. Ruth lives [...]

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Flaxton house wins top award

SUNSHINE COAST builder Grandview Homes has won Queensland’s 2009 Project Home of the Year award for a house built in Flaxton. The Housing Industry Association -CSR Queensland Housing Awards are eagerly contested from regional builders throughout the state. Regarded as Queensland’s highest accolade for building design and site position, the Grandview Homes win was for the [...]

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New look for Mapleton Cabins

IF YOU HAVEN’T yet met the new owners of Mapleton Cabins and Caravan Park, Sherryl and Peter Walton, you may well have seen their eye-catching advertisement on wheels around the Range. Sherryl and Peter are well known to many Coast residents and they have made their tree change to Mapleton with the aim of making their [...]

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Mind Your Business

This month: Advertising that helps turn Consumers into Customers In the busy world of business there is a long-standing axiom that, ‘Nothing happens until someone sells something to somebody’. To effectively engage consumers you have to understand their needs and wants. That’s what this new column is about. We will help you develop insights into consumers’ shopping and behavioural patterns so that you [...]

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“If you can’t beat em – join em!”

GRAHAM AND JUDY Gardiner could have the Motto “if you can’t beat em – join em!”. Graham and Judy own and operate Crystal Clear Commercial Cleaning and clean many properties like surgeries, offices, businesses banks etc. in Maleny. They have lived on the Sunshine Coast since 1982. Before moving to Maleny they lived at Kiels [...]

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MCU sets up financial services brokerage

The Maleny Credit Union will launch a new finance broking business this month to boost service options to its Hinterland clients, and to attract a broader client base beyond the Sunshine Coast. MCU Financial Services will be powered by the credit union but it will have its own logo and identity, and is the brainchild of [...]

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Property Talk with John Taylor

Sustainability Declaration! JUST over a month before Christmas and without any consultation with the real estate industry, the State Government brought in new legislation making it mandatory for every residential property in Queensland on the market or coming on the market after the 1st of January 2010 to have a two page fifty six point Sustainability [...]

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Property Talk

Where from and where to? by John Taylor Many of us can look back 25 years to quieter times when a major part of the road to Brisbane was one lane in either direction; when Montville had a general store with fuel pumps on the footpath and shared Main Street with a dozen other businesses; when [...]

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What’s in a Name … or a penny for your thoughts?

By David Parmiter “Isn’t it spelt wrongly?” “Shouldn’t it be Pennyfarthings’?” “The tourists”, smiles the English owner of Penefathings Inn, Riy Fathers, “they always want to correct it!” Maybe it’s all part of his marketing strategy … and it seems to be working for him. When he set up the English Pub on the Mapleton Road, just outside [...]

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