Queensland was a big winner in Australia’s mining boom, with a lot of activity occurring across the state’s far north where much of the minerals that the waking Chinese juggernaut was insatiably feeding on, were dug up.

Times are changing at an ever-faster pace in this technological age. And our property markets are no exception, as the fundamentals that underpin and drive our inherent relationship with housing and in turn, its value, undergo a significant transition.

Australia’s lending landscape has been much the same since the inception of banking in our country, with the major four pillars soaring ever skywards on the back of increasing profits, as smaller lenders scrounge for the leftovers in their wake.

Unless you’ve just crawled out of a cryogenically induced hundred-year hibernation, you know that real estate in Sydney, Australia is EXPENSIVE!