My House My Home

03/12/2025

The Future Living Code Amendment represents a pragmatic and forward-looking approach to increasing housing diversity and affordability within established suburbs. It achieves this without compromising neighbourhood character, heritage values, or existing streetscapes. By supporting co-located housing options, it enables existing homes to be retained, adapted, and sensitively extended rather than demolished for subdivision.

This article discusses Australia’s housing affordability challenge and focuses on CEDA's proposed "gentle density", or modest increases in housing density, as a means to unlock thousands of new homes across our cities as one way to address the housing crisis. As CEDA notes, “without more urgent ...

11/09/2025

Another great Land- Lease community.

Coming soon to Victor Harbor

25/08/2025

Currently, RVA legislation solely addresses apartments within the context of vertical living. Is it time to broaden the scope to encompass ownership, rather than merely leasing, utilizing Land-Lease Retirement legislation?

Baby boomers have flipped the script on an Aussie tradition of retirees moving to the coast or quiet seclusion, opting for a more surprising move.

20/08/2025

What influence will the latest interest rate exert on the spring housing market? 🤔

Interest rates have been cut three times this year, but the question is how quickly lower borrowing costs will filter through to the property market.

22/07/2025

Taking the Age Pension with you: What you need to know before retiring overseas.

For many Australians, the idea of retiring overseas is more than just a lifestyle dream. But taking your Age Pension with you isn’t simple.

09/07/2025

An incentive that perhaps we could incorporate in Australia. 🥂

29/06/2025

🤔 The Age Pension was never intended as a backstop payment of convenience for citizens fortunate enough to have considerable assets. It’s a tragedy for the impoverished elderly that they have to share a scant resource with that cohort, as society frowns at the overall cost…..

Aussie boomers are often criticised for not downsizing, but there's a good reason why they're holding onto their big properties.

27/06/2025

😳🤔 Certainly worth a read if you’re considering a purchase .

Property investors with units in key areas of Melbourne and Sydney are selling for a loss, with some areas the worst since the deep recession of the 1990s: https://bit.ly/45NJgEX

15/06/2025

ELDER ABUSE AWARENESS DAY :-
Abuse can be psychological, emotional, physical, sexual, financial or due to neglect. Elderly individuals often conceal it due to feelings of shame - nearly one in five cases involve adult children as perpetrators - or fear of adverse consequences. If you or someone you know requires assistance, contact the National Elder Abuse helpline at 1800 353 374. For additional information, visit our website at https://Inkd.in/gH_899Hj. Further support is available through the Aged Care Advocacy Line at 1800 700 600.