Pro Teck Valuation Services’ October Home Value Forecast Update examines Months of Remaining Inventory (MRI) of new homes listed for sale over the past 50 years, which is currently close to its lowest level at 4.5 months. The Update also explores the correlation between median single family home price changes and MRI of new single family homes over the past four decades and explores why there is a divergence between existing and new home prices. The October update includes the monthly 10 Read more [...]

Refurbishment building study (AJ 12/09/1996) Style in suburbia with the comforts of homeRenovation gives Valentine Harding’s Six Pillars a vivid Corbusian presence in a world of Victorian villas by Andrew MeadSix Pillars in Sydenham Hill, South London, was one of two houses designed by Tecton partner Val Harding before his early death in 1940 (the other being his own family home at Burnhani Beeches, Bucks). Completed in 1935 for the Rev Leakey, headmaster of nearby Dulwich College Preparatory School, Read more [...]

An 1889-built hotel in Cullen Bullen, 124 kilometres inland from Sydney, has been listed for sale. John Surian, director of Raine and Horne Parramatta, says the history of the pub, the only one in Cullen Bullen, dates back to the past century.  According to a heritage study the rectangular Victorian-style hotel was built in two stages along roadside frontage. “The first southern section of the hotel was constructed in 1890 of ashlar render with a dentilled parapet wall column and urn. A four-panelled Read more [...]