Articles by Jacob Robinson
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January 2017
May 2015
February 2015
November 2014
October 2014
August 2014
June 2014
- Finding the right agent to sell your home
- Four Australian disruptive financial services startups to watch
- Baskin-Robbins planning a sweet future, despite cool consumer sentiment
- More trouble for Jan Cameron with 50 Retail Adventures stores set to close
- What is BIM and is it the future of construction?
- Sublime design: Le Corbusier’s Villa Savoye
- Earning, learning or confused: Mixed signals on jobs for young
- Five key workplace trends of the future: Report
- As slowdown looms, Pilbara will need networks to thrive
May 2014
- Green roofs and walls – a growth area in urban design
- How will rising student debt affect first home buyers?
- How will rising student debt affect first home buyers?
- 12 tips to help choose the perfect home design
- Commonwealth Bank behaviour sends more warning signals about Liberals' financial advice changes
- The rise and fall of the hot desk: Say hello to activity-based working
- Three case studies that show why you should always perform a title search
- What's the difference between a conveyancer and a lawyer, and do I really need one?
- Financial advisers must accept that their obligations can't be spelt out in an easy checklist
- Financial planning industry at the crossroads: Why efforts to water down FOFA must be resisted
- Aussies hit with $7.5 billion in extra costs due to FOFA changes
- Building on cemeteries: Should the dead roll over to make room for real estate?
- Investors demand tax reform in budget’s aftermath
- Changes help the budget but not the economy
- Time for Australia to consider Asian lessons on city infrastructure
- Reverse mortgages need a rethink if they’re the new age pension
- The state of the Australian economy
- Australia’s tax system is half-baked and a deficit levy won’t help
- Standing out in your street – preparing your home for sale
- ABS figures show slowdown in retail growth ahead of the budget
- Invest like Warren Buffett does with new iBillionaire app
- Why it’s time to quarantine negative gearing
- Superannuation disclosure pushed back until next year
- Open house inspections: Applying the finishing touches
- Australia’s economy is healthy, so how can there be a budget crisis?
- Fridcorp host completion party for Avenue in South Yarra
- Australia’s first bitcoin mining cloud service launches
- Investors react to Commission of Audit recommendations
- Rental properties – keeping deductions working for you
- CBA customers to withdraw cash using smartphones
April 2014
- Masters could learn a lot from Aldi
- Virgin Money coughs up $30,600 for misleading advertising
- Eight tips for saving to buy a property
- Abbott: No changes to age pension for three years
- Business groups hit out at federal government's 'debt levy'
- Easter boosts retail sales by 8.4% according to new sales index
- Almost 100 countries sign GST agreement: Pressure mounts on Australian government
- Five reasons the government might consider changing negative gearing this year
- NRAS fears are misplaced
- Not according to ‘the plan’: First home buyers missing out on off the plan opportunities
- Not according to ‘the plan’: First home buyers missing out on off the plan opportunities
- Two principles of successful commercial property investment
- Pensions, superannuation and the education of Joe Hockey
- Bumper property pre-Easter weekend with record auction results
- Joe Hockey flags plans to raise retirement age
- Gold Coast to ride wave of Commonwealth Games momentum
- Too many battles for ASIC? Four Corners and lenders of last resort
- Staging your investment property for a great rental return on investment
- Enough talk: the economic policies that WA needs now
- Finding workers and money our main worries: Glenn Stevens
- House prices surge, but buyers don’t panic: There’s a light at the end of the tunnel
- Treasury boss hints at the need for a broader GST
- Perth industrial sales hits seven-year high: Savills
- All but stagnant CBD employment puts office demand in the slow lane
- The future of financial advice needs educated advisers
- Melbourne tops the list of best performing capital cities in March quarter: RP Data-Rismark
March 2014
- Retirement prospects not-so-super for many Australians
- The one certainty of financial advice is unfettered fees
- Tackle fast-tracking of approvals to close nexus between politicians and developers
- Investors overlook commercial property at their peril
- How US bonds are putting a rocket under the Australian dollar
- RBA relaxed about the dollar and investment
- Forget international students, NRAS' biggest concern is failure to meet supply targets
- Lower dollar has Australian tourism operators smiling: Tourism industry survey
- Christiaan Georgio likes the cut of Collins Street store lease
- All capital cities have seen post-GFC employment recovery
- Activity based working is here to stay
- How much risk can you handle? Assessing your risk profile
- Despite auction heat dwelling values were tepid in February: RP Data-Rismark
- Living on The Block and other housing fantasies
February 2014
- Vaucluse stunner with harbour views the most expensive sale of the week: RP Data
- Building a housing industry from the relics of a car industry
- Will Toyota’s move to end car manufacturing by 2017 in Australia cause a recession?
- Home equity is not just an "ATM", it's an uncomfortable risk
- Auction season to kick-off after January lull: Melbourne February 8 weekend auction preview
- Vaucluse mansion sells for $6,550,000 the week's most expensive sale: RP Data
January 2014
- Toorak median house price up a whopping 55.4% over 2013, tops Melbourne growth suburbs: REIV
- The most expensive sales of the week, including a Cronulla red brick cottage stunner
- The most important property investment numbers of the week
- Sandy Bay chateau inspired house last week's most expensive sale: RP Data
- Back-to-front decision-making bedevils Melbourne’s city planning
- Modern Australian buildings are unfriendly – and here’s why
- Building a nation: the state of play in Australian architecture
- Explainer with Chris McGrath: one-stop-shop for environmental approvals
- Too close to home: people who live near pokie venues at risk
- Shelling out for tiles at the Sydney Opera House
- All change: China’s reform agenda shuns growth at any cost
December 2013
November 2013
- Mining boom moves to production stage as new project constructions fall
- To intervene, or not to intervene? The RBA's dollar dilemma
- What does a liberalised Chinese currency mean for the Australian dollar?
- What kind of social housing do people really want?
- Can policy announcements push the Australian dollar down?
- In defense of McMansions: They're not all bad
- New building standards and policies required for bushfire prone areas
- Economists debate: Should Joe Hockey increase the debt limit?
- Retail store locations: The science behind the choice
- Australia is embracing Chinese investment in real estate
- RBA says further cuts possible
- Tourism and casinos: Can we gamble our way to prosperity?
- Australian early stage investment is alive and growing, experts say
- Court ruling allows commercial property owners corporations to bring negligence claims against builders
- Generous investor tax breaks contributing to unequal housing market
- Keep property in context: Market is in transition, not in a bubble
October 2013
- The auctions are going to be a hot this summer: Mornington Peninsula state of the market
- First home buyers battling it out with investors: Yarraville state of the market
- Anaemic growth predicted for construction sector over next two financial years
- Dollar likely to be “materially lower”, RBA governor Glenn Stevens says
- Nine tips for maintaining your sanity while building a house: Sam Crothers
- Economists stumped as Australia's participation rate falls to a seven-year low
- Politics not productivity behind resuscitation of construction watchdog: Gerard de Valence
- Nobel Prize in economics goes to housing sceptic
- It's the inside that counts! What makes a good floor plan: Sam Crothers
- What qualifications does a property investment adviser need? None: Peter Koulizos
September 2013
- Are SMSF investors blowing up a property bubble? Helen Hodgson
- The growing wealth divide in Australia's home equity: Nicole Gurran and Peter Phibbs
- Our biggest economic problem could be a housing price boom
- Property experts present contrasting outlook on Australian market
- I’d rather stick a fork in my eye than buy NRAS: Todd Hunter
August 2013
July 2013
- Claiming depreciation on positively geared property can reduce your taxable income
- What do we do as the mining boom tapers off?: Jim Minfie
- Room for Debate: Jo Chivers and Terry Ryder evaluate the importance of crunching the stats
- First-home buyers left out as residential market improves: Evgeniya Hawthorne
- First-home buyers left out as residential market improves: Evgeniya Hawthorne
- Options for the 2013 election date - which spring Saturday property auctions face the federal election interruption?
- Darwin's $690 weekly rental tops national median weekly asking rents: APM
- Greg Norman Florida listing seeks $US25 million Le Lac buyers
- Shalvey $299,000 brick veneer the cheapest Sydney weekend auction house sale
- Haberfield headed Sydney's weekend auction results
- The days of super-low interest rates are coming to an end: David Bassanese
- Advisory firms appointed for Port of Newcastle sale