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According to the NSW Government, Sydney Metro is Australia's largest public transport project. It will be a stand alone railway network, which, working together with major upgrades to the Western Line, will deliver the capacity to increase the number of trains entering the CBD across the entire Sydney railway system from 120 to about 200 in the busiest hour of the day. According to Transport NSW, this means the railway network across greater Sydney will have room for an extra 100,000 trai...

The Inland Rail has been described as a 'truly transformational' infrastructure project for Australia.      The 1,700 km proposed rail network will connect Brisbane, through regional NSW,  to Melbourne addressing the anticipated significant growth in freight over the next several decades, with a goal of delivering a transit time of less than 24 hours between the two capital cities. The Federal Government previously committed $300 million for pre-constru...

Source:  Gasfields Commission Queensland Dalby farmers Ross and Jane Walker share their experience and insights in negotiating ten (10) gas wells on their farming block including the important role played by rural valuation firms. This is another in a series of stories where landholders have shared lessons learnt with the GasFields Commission to help inform and assist other landholders and continue to improve understanding between the rural and onshore gas industries in Queens...

Source: CoreLogic RP Data Summary Quarterly movements To end the 2015 calendar year, most regional markets, for houses, saw rents either rise or remain steady with the exception of Western Australia where rents were down -2.6% over the final three months of the year.  On the other hand, regional unit market performance was much weaker, with rental rates in Queensland, Tasmania and Western Australia all lower in December 2015 relative to September 2015. Annual movements F...

Source: Corelogic RP Data Across regional Queensland, rental rates remained steady for houses over the final quarter of 2015, at $350/week, while for units, a -2.9% decline was recorded, bringing the typical rental rate to $330/week.  Both the detached house and unit rental performance over the past year has underperformed when compared to the five year average for the region and interestingly, regional Queensland house rents are currently recording the same median price as they wer...