CoreLogic has announced Melbourne and Sydney housing markets can expect to be the most affected following APRA's stricter lending policies and the banking royal commission. The CoreLogic Property Analytics team have shown that lenders are likely to make tighter regulations in response to the investigations into the sector. Tim Lawless who is CoreLogic's head of research has predicted a fall in the Sydney and Melbourne market, cities which have previously enjoyed exponential g

NoiseNet's recent statistical analysis of 90 000 residential properties in the Brisbane City Council area has given new insights into the noisiest and quietest places to live. The study incorporates calculations of noise levels at each of the properties including aircraft, traffic and rail noise. It also includes the impacts of local zoning and the presence of noise from public facilities and businesses. The properties analysed were all 3 bedroom houses (apartments were excl

If you've recently bought a house, you probably have just encountered a time full of stress, upheaval through moving, a lack of sleep an

A Brisbane woman has admitted to spending hours sitting outside properties, day and night, trying to hear what it would be like to live there. She’s not alone, many people know what a property is like to live in, but are in the dark about whether the property suffers from intrusive noise problems. Anne Sweeney is a Brisbane resident who owns an investment property in Jindalee. It was purchased so her three children would have a place to live while they study at the University

The Daily Telegraph in Sydney reports this week that noise levels in the northern corridor of Sydney airport are almost double the mandated limits. This highlights again a common problem across Australian cities, where aircraft operators design operations based on an "ideal", but in actual operation use different alternatives. Generally this results in one group suffering much greater noise levels. From NoiseNets' perspective, it highlights how important it is to understand

Brisbane Times today listed unexpected noise as #1 amongst Neglected issues for home buyers in Queensland. They have indicated that NoiseNet is the ideal solution to understand if this is a problem for any particular property. If you are buying, click through to our services page and we can start monitoring a property to tell you if there are noise issues. The article mentions the monitors are placed inside a house/apartment. It depends on the property, whether it is occupi

Today I was at River City Labs a start-up accelerator in Brisbane when we were visited by Malcolm Turnbull, his entourage and a myriad of TV cameras. Lots of people were asking questions, and the main one I got was "Where did you get the idea from?" To answer in short, it is something that was probably dreamed up in one of the following places throughout my life: Botany St, Kingsford, NSW The cross runway caused 90 second breaks in conversation every 3 minutes during easter

It's the first day NoiseNet. Maybe I should start by saying where the idea came from. My personal experience has seen me living in houses which were beautifully quiet - and others where noise was a real issue. Everyone has their own sensitivity to noise - not just the volume but the duration, time of day and also the type of noise. NoiseNet is about helping people to understand their own noise tolerance, and to think about what that means for them. It's then about matching