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The Easter long weekend is one of the favourite short breaks for many Victorians. It’s a time of year when many of us get away for a change of scenery, while others use it as a chance to attend to various tasks we’ve “been meaning to get to” for several months.

As anyone with the slightest awareness of international news will know, 2025 has been a year of economic upheaval so far, (and we’re only in April)! So making predictions about what the rest of the year may bring is probably guaranteed to cause some raised eyebrows.

One of the changes we are noticing in our local property market in 2025 is increased activity from those buyers who are looking to purchase property as a long term investment, as opposed to buying as a personal residence.

We’ve been saying for quite some time now that Autumn is historically a prime time of year to sell a property in Melbourne’s northern corridor, and with the first month of the season now coming to a close it’s safe to say that 2025 is proving to be a prime example of this.

As many of our regular readers will already know, we’ve been reporting a steady growth in buyer activity in the northern corridor of Melbourne throughout the first few months of 2025.

You may well be as surprised as I was this week, when I was reading a report on the Australian property market which pointed out that it is now five years since the World Health Organisation declared Covid-19 as a global pandemic!

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As you may have seen or heard recently, the Victorian Parliament has passed some new legislation which impacted the rental market in our State.

I know that ‘time flies’, but the fact Summer officially finished this week, and we are now heading into the Autumn market has me wondering how that happened so quickly!

There were no surprises this week when the Reserve Bank cut official interest rates by 0.25 per cent. Given that our current inflation rate is tracking very much in the middle of the RBA’s target range, this move was expected by the large majority of economists.

Right now, the consensus seems to be that this week the Reserve Bank will announce our first cut in official interest rates for the year.

One of the hidden risks that most people overlook within their home, but which can provide a genuine threat, (particularly to young children), are unsecured cords attached to window blinds and curtains.