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On The Adelaide Horizon April 2008



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span                            prices across the Australian      
class="cap">Year        mainland capital cities indicate  
2007 indeed proven to be a      that the median home price for    
surprise packet for the Adelaide      Adelaide is well below any other  
real estate market, with the          mainland city and is in fact the  
Adelaide Median home price moving     only mainland city with median    
forward approximately 20%. This       home price below $400,000, as is  
was a unique year not because         evident from table 1.

         
Adelaide residential property was     

City - Median

              
in high demand but because of         

Adelaide - $350,000            
where the demand was coming from.     Brisbane - $410,000               
According to the anecdotal            Darwin - $412,000                 
observation of Mark Sanderson of      Canberra - $457,000               
Smallacombe Sanderson, 2007           Perth - $465,000                  
represented a year where higher       Melbourne - $485,000              
proportions of interstate buyers      Sydney - $551,000

             
were entering the South               

Australian Weighted Average    
Australian market. This               $471,300                          
observation was made even more        Source: Real Estate Institute of  
interesting as for the first          Australia

                     
time, buyers were emerging from       

Arguably much of the interest  
Western Australia which               surrounding South Australia has   
historically has not previous         been directed at its mining       
been a market for South               sector. Following from the Perth  
Australian Real Estate.

           property markets recent boom,     

In the face of rising interest     which was primarily driven by its 
rates, property prices have           resources, much attention is now  
continued to rise in South            being directed at the South       
Australia. Despite this, the 2007     Australian property market.

   
December quarter median home          

It is expected that the        



effects of mining and the             occurring. Much of South          
economic prosperity it brings to      Australia’s resources have yet to 
a region will indeed be felt in       be explored and a recent push     
South Australia for many decades      towards remedying this situation  
to come. The building momentum of     has been underway. See figure     
public sentiment surrounding          1.

                            
global warming is bringing into       

Figure                         
question the wisdom of the long       1(http://www.adelaidepropertyfind 
term continued use of fossil          ers.com.au/docs/page/133/136/figu 
fuels. Given the abundance of         re1.gif). Source: Minerals and    
fossil fuels and our current          Energy Resources South Australia, 
dependence on them, the shift         PIRSA

                         
away from these fuels will not be     

The exponential increase in    
slow or easy. The threat of           mineral exploration expenditure   
global warming has however            over the last 4 years has         
focused many nations attention        resulted in a dramatic increase   
towards alternative power sources     in mineral exploration licence    
and uranium is very much on the       coverage throughout the state as  
agenda.

                           is evident from figure 2.

     

Given the largest know deposit     

Figure                         
of Uranium is now know to exist       2(http://www.adelaidepropertyfind 
in South Australia as well as         ers.com.au/docs/page/133/136/figu 
plans to significantly open these     re2.gif). Source: Minerals and    
mines, many have predicted            Energy Resources South Australia, 
prosperous times ahead for the        PIRSA

                         
state and the city of Adelaide.       

The significant increase in    
What is less know are the various     mineral exploration expenditure   
other mines operating throughout      in addition to the states know    
the state as well as the extent       resources makes for part of the   
of additional mining exploration      foundation currently being laid   



which is likely to cement South       Adelaide buyers' agent, "Adelaide 
Australia’s prosperity for years      Property Finders" - to come. This together with the       href="http://www.adelaideproperty 
lowest median home price of any       finders.com.au">mainland Australian city places       color="#001000"                   
the South Australian real estate      size="-2">http://www.adelaideprop 
market in an enviable position        ertyfinders.com.au
. He 
and gives it a fresh set of legs      is also a property investor, a    
with plenty of room to catch          property investment lecturer as   
up.

     well as the publisher of 'The     
About the Author
id="authorbio"                        Investorgator'.

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Mena is the director of the           




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