The new Lowes/Masters stores in Australia,via easy home renovating
July 31, 2010 by Tim
Filed under Bathrooms, environmental features, Kitchens, new building products, Renovating, tips
These are called Masters Home Improvement. The major differences in these easy home renovating stores to the Home Depot clone, Bunnings include, an offer of White goods Appliances,a bigger display of Kitchen and Bathrooms, a wider range and emphasis on Plumbing supplies, a wider range of windows, greater emphasis on the home maker as distinct from the tradesman D.I.Y. market.
“How to Guides”,a credit facility,more videos and ebooks with Internet access and research even before you go to the store like the virtual room designer guide videos.
One can research online, via a Room by Room renovating guide for the Kitchen, Bathroom, Garage, Laundry, Accessability Guides and Children’s room.
A greater emphasis on the Tradesmen and Installation renovating service.
A free delivery service. A free estimating calculator sevice, which prices your easy home renovating project.
An emphasis on home Sustainability solutions, including Energy Savings, Water Savings,
The Lowes/Masters Credit Card, for great financing, includes first 60 days interest free.
Taken all together, I am expecting Lowes/Masters stores to offer a better ranges of products, tools and services including, Customer Care.
The home Creative Living area offers featured Videos, Featured projects, featured Weblogs.
I aim to check out the products and order “online ” with pick up, at the store or free delivery. Masters will offer “white goods”, like fridges an lots of exclusive imported items.
While, the easy home renovating emphasis in the Home depot clone, Bunnings is on “Lowest Prices”. The Lowes/Masters stores will offer a wider range of products and services. I fully anticipate the new Masters stores will save my business thousands a year, mainly, due to it being a one stop shop. The First one is due to open 1St of September, 2011, in Inner West of Melbourne suburb, at Braybrook.
New stores will open, soon at Tingalpa, Nerang, Ipswich, Springfield, Burnside, Morayfield and Gregory Hills.There are 18 new Masters store under construction right now. Some to open soon, include, Majura Park, Canberra, ACT, Springfield, Qld, Upper Coomera Qld, Narellan, NSW, Forrestdale, WA, Carrum Downs, Vic, Preston, Victoria delayed opening at Keysborough, Victoria. New stores are expected to open rapidly including at Baldivis, Bibra Lake, Coolaroo, Mornington, Keysborough, Oakleigh South, Preston, Scoresby and Box Hill South. There will be 200 new Masters stores built over the next five years.
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Australia’s Electric car when ?
July 30, 2010 by Tim
Filed under environmental features, Renovating, tips
I have been reading about Australia’s Electric car, the Blade Electron. And when might this be available? I hear you ask, well, right here, right now. In fact, its been available since February 2008. Given the cost of a charge at $2 for a 100 Km, and the convenience of plug in recharge. I am suprized only 30 or so have been sold. Now the State government and many councils have ordered these cars. The public can buy the second hand models at a reasonable price around $30,000. I consider this a bit dear, but am acutely aware the Battery costs will be falling dramatically in future years.This should cut the cost of a new car by close to $8,000.
Let me detail the advantages, cheap to run, zero emissions, quiet to drive, cheap to service, recharge in 30 minutes and great reliability. The Blade Electron cars are made locally in Castlemaine, Victoria, as a conversion of the popular lightweight Hyundai Getz, new cost is $48,000. There are plenty of us waiting for the great range of brand new car models like the GM Volt, the ECC, the Smart car, the Telsa, the Nissan Leaf or Chinas Chery. But for those who like to buy cheaper, second hand, the Blade Electron is now available, at www.bev.com.au/
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Eastlink Freeway, Effect on home renovating values
July 30, 2010 by Tim
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Today, I note the valuation effect of the new Eastlink road a $3.6 Billion Freeway. It links Frankston to Ringwood via a 39 Kilometre tollway. The State Valuer General has noted that the outer East and South Eastern suburbs, have jumped by substantially more than the Melbourne average. The quick, easy, access to the city has caused home values to jump. Even the historically, less valuable areas like Pakenham, Berwick, Rye, Carrum Downs, Toogarook, and Narre Warren have had strong valuation increases. Please note, Valuers Generals figures are usually about a year out of date, as they take time to be collated and released.
The opening of a new transport link, like a freeway can have a compounding favourable effect for 25 years, for example the Westgate bridge, opened in 1977 which opened up the Western suburbs. Traffic on the Eastlink Tollway has increased strongly over the last six months, with the June figures up 15% to 169,000 a day. Recent July figures are also excellent. The expectation is for future traffic growth, especially when the new Peninsula freeway link is completed. The Eastlink tollway is still in its inital “ramp up ” phase which will last for atleast an extra year.
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population pressures on the home renovating market.
July 28, 2010 by Tim
Filed under property market, Renovating
The BIS Shrapnel figures on the forecasts for NET immigration are reproduced as follows : As most Australians are not aware of population movements. I am critically keen to publish these figures when one finds them. reference afr 26/07/2010
The figures are
147,000 for 2006
233,000 for 2007
277,000 for 2008
300,000 for 2009
240,000 for 2010
175,000 for 2011
145,000 for 2012
rising gradually to 250,000 by 2015.
As these are only rough forecasts, the actual figures will be quite divergent. One might like to be acutely aware that several categories of people are not included in these figures, there are New Zealanders, who have easy access, returning Expatriate Australians, returning to our growing economy, short term business overstayers, tourists and other overstayers. DickSmith the business person has made a TV Population Docomentary, showing shortly, should be of interest.
On balance, I suggest the NET immigration figures might even stay relatively stable over this period.
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Population factors effect on the homes property market.
July 26, 2010 by Tim
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Recently, as a byproduct of the election campaign, more details of the growth of Australia’s population have been released. Apparently, some major parts of the Immigration numbers have not been counted the 457 Visa for Employment migrants have been ‘rorted “, as so many low skilled jobs, like Hairdressers and chefs have been included, when these groups of people are not required as Highly Skilled migrants. All of the returning expatriate Australians working overseas have not been counted, given there are close to a million Australians working overseas, some 100,000 could easily be returning to Australia. Plus the NZ people who have easy access, and are not counted as immigrants. Numbers of people on Temporary protection visas are not counted : same with overstayers and tourists overstayers. This is apparently a hot political election issue. The student numbers are the area I like, they would make a cat laugh. As numbers have tripled in the last six years to reach 400,000. The most popular courses are English, cooking and Hospitality.
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