https://www.afr.com/real-estate/ ... nts-20181030-h17bcj
A company whose sole shareholder is billionaire pokies king Len Ainsworth has swooped on a collection of new-build Brisbane apartments for a discount of about 15 per cent off their original price after the owners defaulted on their planned purchase.
Metro Property's Laguna and St Tropez apartment development in Newstead, Brisbane is just one of several developments where private investors are searching for bargain buys in a market where values have slumped.
Another is Consolidated Properties' high-rise Spire development in the Brisbane CBD where a private investor has snapped up 25 apartments at a discount of 20 per cent after the original buyers also defaulted on settlement. Most of the original off-the-plan buyers were Chinese investors.
The deals, publicly available on land titles documents, point to a deterioration in the apartment market where last month it was revealed Brisbane's 92-storey Skytower had valuations ordered by banks showing drops of as much as 25 per cent. However, the deals also point to a potential recovery as private investors make the call to invest.
Mr Ainsworth, whose wealth was last estimated at more than $4 billion by The Australian Financial Review Rich List and is now 95 years old, is the sole director of a company called Ainsworth Pty Ltd, which purchased more than a dozen apartments in the development. Mr Ainsworth said such a deal was a "private matter".
Metro Property declined to comment on the deal but the development was one of its best sellers during 2015. Laguna comprised 189 one and two-bedroom apartments while St Tropez has 231 apartments across 20 levels with a lagoon pool and water features.
A number of Chinese buyers who have not been able to obtain financing have defaulted on the apartment upon settlement. The developers, opting not to commence legal action on the defaulting buyers, have instead kept the buyers' 10 per cent deposits and sold the residual apartments on to private investors.
The private investors such as Ainsworth either back themselves in selling the properties on or can hold the apartments with expectation of capital growth as the property cycle turns up.
Brisbane has seen some big changes to its apartment market with an exodus of Chinese investors. Lendlease's head of property said in June that Brisbane was the most challenging inner-city apartment market in the country. Lendlease's apartments have sold for discounts of as much as 27.6 per cent from their off-the plan purchase price.
Banks' willingness to lend for apartments, particularly to foreign investors, has been crimped by APRA caps on lending and the banking royal commission. The banks are now cracking down on the valuations of new-build apartments.
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想吃肉的中国大妈反倒割肉补贴了本地亿万富翁。。。
只能说，世事难料，不如意事常八九，可与语人无二三。
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也不是没有可能啊。
Perth的Cottesloe过去12个月中位价涨了18.1%。
https://www.domain.com.au/news/t ... rice-growth-778626/
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大多数还是赚钱的
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if exchange the Aus currency to Chinese Yuan. most of the ap investor lose money in last 3 ys.
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那些说当地人傻的中老年妇女们，静下心来用脑子想想，当地人真傻吗？那些说中国人全世界最聪明的，也尝试用脑子想想，当代中国人真全世界最聪明吗？那为什么近500年欧洲白人统治世界呢？
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日本人在布村和黄金村被套牢也不过2，30年前的事。大家早忘啦？
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这么快就炒底，不等到腰斩吗？
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是没跌在前，引起关注在后。的确现在鬼佬华人也开始在关注一些强势区。
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不好说啊。
都说工党上台房价要跌。
其实我觉得不一定。
按照工党的废除负扣税的政策，会有很大一波想要投资二手房持币观望的人赶在新政前出手，现有房主在新政后又会惜售，卖了就只有买新房才能负扣税了。
等于增加需求，减少供给。
亿万富翁现在出手还是有道理的。肯定是算过八折以后投资回报率不错的，而且选择空间大。
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人傻钱多
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昨天晚上的朋友圈，有人发“ 有CBD，北悉尼，Bondi房子转卖的，现金买家”
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布里斯班的投资房现金流其实比悉尼和墨尔本要好， 比原价低20%买下来再出租拿现金流， 可能还是正现金流，即使真的来一波gfc, 也有现金流可以档的住。 现在悉尼的apt跌20%是正现金流吗？ 富豪们怎么没买悉尼的公寓？
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抄底八折，扣掉10成首付，开发商还是亏了10成
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第一，是10%，一成。
第二，不是亏了一成，而是少赚了一成。
第三，少赚的一成，还不一定。可以追究中国楼花买家法律责任，要求赔偿差价。不是每个人都能躲回中国，再也不来澳洲了。
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友几个看Perth啊，还看Cottesloe, 这就像悉尼足友看Point Piper或者Vaucluse.
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哈，写错，有道理
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人民币是纸，澳元才是钱
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谁能让我拿按照4.5元一包的A4纸价格买手里的人民币。我全收。
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