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Today Tonight – Rio Jobs

May 1, 2012  Articles

Today Tonight - Rio Jobs

Rio Jobs Reporter: Graeme Butler The Rio-Tinto Juggernaut is rolling into town and it wants four thousand workers NOW for its W.A mining operations. It’s a job campaign like no other targeting 6000 new employees across Australia. It’s a campaign of Olympic proportions and has enlisted some famous Olympians to lead the charge Rio has 15 Read the full article…

Property killings to be made in the Pilbara boom!

May 1, 2012  Articles | Pilbara property

Property killings to be made in the Pilbara boom!

WHEN governments spend big in an area, private money usually follows. For that reason, government decisions can be a major creator of real estate hotspots. The regional centres of Western Australia’s Pilbara region were real estate outperformers long before the state government decided to tip serious money into their infrastructure. But the expenditure, followed by Read the full article…

Western Australia outperforms the rest

Apr 30, 2012  Articles | Government & Policy

Western Australia outperforms the rest

SO strongly is Western Australia performing, the national economy is now being viewed in terms of Australia as a whole and Australia excluding WA. The latest report card by Commonwealth Securities (CommSec) on Australia’s states suggests WA’s influence, courtesy of the mining boom, has become so powerful it warrants its own special consideration. Every three Read the full article…

Pilbara Property Prospects Piping Hot!

Apr 30, 2012  Articles | Pilbara property

Pilbara Property Prospects Piping Hot!

IN DEMAND: Ongoing resources developments have made Port Hedland a property investment hotspot, according to a new report. Ten Western Australian suburbs have been ranked in the nation’s top 50 for potential capital growth, as the state’s resources boom intensifies demand for residential property. Regional towns in WA featured strongly in the Fast 50 report, Read the full article…

WA Leads the way for Australian growth

Apr 30, 2012  Articles

WA Leads the way for Australian growth

THE mining boom state of Western Australia continues to lead the nation’s economic growth and is set to maintain its course for most of this year.  WA’s economic output is now 28 per cent higher than its 10-year average, the latest quarterly State of the States report compiled by CommSec shows.  “Western Australia has consolidated Read the full article…

Newman WA Housing Crisis Receives Much Needed Lifeline

Mar 12, 2012  Pilbara property

A drastic shortage of accommodation in the mining rich region of Newman, WA has hiked rental prices up as far as $1650 per week for an average three bedroom home. Perth based company MACRO Realty said that with the population of Newman expected to nearly double by 2015 it is at the brink of a housing Read the full article…

Cash flow in your property portfolio

Feb 28, 2012  Positive Gearing

Cash flow in your property portfolio

Cash flow positive property, otherwise known as positively geared property is a position that eludes most property investors.  It is where the property generates more rental income and / or tax benefits than is required to pay its holding costs, resulting in a surplus for you to pocket at the end of the financial year, Read the full article…

Newman an investment hotspot

Feb 27, 2012  Pilbara property | Positive Gearing

Newman an investment hotspot

Located approximately 1184km Northeast of Perth along the Great Northern Highway is Newman with its current population of 5000 permanent residents and 3000 FIFO (fly-in-fly-out) workers. Newman is at the heart of the mining and resource boom, with Mt Whaleback mine being the world’s single biggest open-cut iron ore mine and BHP’s single largest project.  Read the full article…

Newman plans population growth

Nov 17, 2011  Articles | Pilbara property

BHP Billiton has approved a $US698 million ($A687.72 million) investment to develop its share of an iron ore mine near Newman in Western Australia. The proposed new mine will have an expected capacity of 17 million tonnes per annum. The development will include the construction of an ore crushing plant, train loadout facility, rail spur to Read the full article…

Interest rate cut

Nov 2, 2011  Articles | Government & Policy

Interest rate cut

INTEREST rates have fallen to 4.5 per cent, providing a massive boost for struggling households and the retail sector ahead of Christmas. The Reserve Bank of Australia on Tuesday slashed rates by 25 basis points in a bid to boost consumer spending and turn around the depressed property market. Most of Australia’s biggest home lenders cut Read the full article…

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