The rental market is still challenging. Rents are climbing (which is good for investors), but there is still a severe shortage of rental property. Our books are bulging with inquiries from hopefuls looking for a unit or house to rent.

Several recent sales by Brough Real Estate are showing that investors are back in the market – and keen to snap up property. We recently sold two nice units prior to auction and two more sold strongly under the hammer!

Selling prior to auction were two well presented, large tree shaded two bedroom unit in Alt Street and another unit in Shepherd Street. Auction “action” was lively for a nicely renovated two bedroom unit in Tintern Road, Ashfield with the hammer dropping well over the reserve.

Also sold under the hammer was a spacious unit in a nicely presented block in Church Street Ashfield.

Brough Real Estate will be holding FREE "workshop / talks" for 45 minutes throughout various times of the year, designed to show local business owners how to generate more customers in their own businesses.

Our first of many workshops will start on the 23rd May 2011. See our "Events Calendar" on our site and register now.  The workshops are informal and fun. The workshops will be conducted in small groups of 5 business owners at a time and will be run regularly throughout the year to ensure local business owners get the edge on their competitors.

These ideas will work for practically any type of business, so we expect to see people from all walks of life;

• Retailers
• Tradespeople
• Professionals
• Manufacturers

No matter what your your background is, business is essentially the same - "its about people." See you there!

What a see-sawing year we are having in the Sydney real estate market. Despite many economic uncertainties, local and international disasters and the demolition of the Labor Government at the recent NSW State election, the real estate market is very buoyant indeed and recent sales have been most satisfying.

The Sydney real estate market has been setting record after record – and there is now much attention being directed at the inner-west.

According to Australian Property Monitors chief economist Andrew Wilson, the inner-west and inner-south-west are showcasing strong buying opportunities for investors. Wilson reckons the struggle to get closer to the CBD, to commute, is becoming more profound for Sydney-siders and any areas that still remain within a reasonably affordable band are a good opportunity for investors.

A recent feature in Sydney’s Sunday Telegraph pin-pointed the inner-west as a prime and fast growing area, with sales of homes in Marrickville showing remarkable results.

At the same time, auction clearances are on the improve, with more than 62 percent of properties being cleared in late March, a clear jump over the 58.5 percent clearance rate of only the previous week.

Add to the strong demand the recent decision by the Reserve Bank to keep interest rates on hold, and there is every indication that the local market will continue its very strong growth.

Welcome to our improved website.

Brough real estate have undergone a major transformation, which started with a re-brand of the logo and the colour scheme to reflect its future moving forward.

The website rebuild was neccessary to enable our office to better communicate our service offering in a far more diligent manner than was previouly available to us in the past.

From a users perspective all of the forms have moved from pdf downloads to on-line electronic forms with the ability to easily add additional documentation via a simple "browser search" for files.

A search functionality has been added in the top right of the screen to enable users to quickly find related items of interest pin-pointing where they may be displayed on the site - try it.

The site is now more engaging providing access to free downloads to reports and requests to receive further information on matters that appeal to customers and clients alike.

We hope you enjoy using the new site and look forward to seeing you in person really soon.