Real Estate Central Market Watch January 2014
Happy New Year and welcome to the Real Estate Central Market Watch January 2014.
This month you will find the local market sales figures for December 2013. There are a couple of interesting articles on property investors and a new 3D printer that can build a whole house in 24 hours! There’s also an article by Stewie Martin who has shared his fishing adventure with Daniel Harris to Shoal Bay.
I hope you had a great Christmas and New Year and I look forward to working with you in 2014!
INVESTORS OPTING IN, WHILE FIRST-TIMES OPT OUT
Investors are opting in. first-home buyers are opting out, next-time buyers are still dominant and state government gran schemes are failing. Read more…
THE 3D PRINTER THAT CAN BUILD A HOUSE IN 24 HOURS
There are robot vaccum cleaners and robot mops to help us around the house, so why not a robot to build to build our homes? Wait no longer! Read more…
6 WAYS TO HELP SAVE FRO A HOME IN 2014
Transform your dreams into reality with 6 ways to help you save for a home in 2014. Read More…
FISHING REPORT BY STEWIE MARTIN
With the wet season imminent, in November 2013 myself and Darwin’s best dressed fisherman, Daniel Harris decided to sneak in one last extended trip before the monsoonal rains. With work commitments on the Saturday we didn’t end up at Nightcliff boat ramp until 9pm that night, to be greeted by howling North West winds and sloppy swell battering the foreshore. The eternal optimists, we thought “It’s probably not as bad as it looks, the boats all packed so let’s give it a go”. Well high fives, smiles and the excitement of a new adventure soon paled as we took some serious bumps and spray in my Ocean Master as we tracked north east. After about 10k’s we were drenched, taking a hammering and probably burning a lot of fuel in the bumpy conditions, so the decision was made to head to the rock in Shoal Bay, crash out for the night and do the big run in the morning.
Waking to first light moored up at the rock we were greeted with light breezes and a glassed out ocean: Now that’s more like it! We quickly packed up our swags and making great time we soon arrived at the Vernon Islands, and it wasn’t long before I spotted a big pack of birds working fish near Smith Reef. It was smiles all round as we quickly got stuck into some reasonable Trevally and a few Mackie’s, before the sharks moved in and annihilated every hooked fish. Time to move on!
An hour later we arrived at our creek of choice, and motoring upstream found a nice three way junction that looked promising. We pulled a few nice Barra straight away using Classics and Deep Diving Killalures. Once the Barra bite slowed, I started firing casts at the other side of the junction and was soon rewarded with a hit every cast from solid Threadies. Gotta love the Territory! With a red hot Thready bite on our hands we had a ball and experimented using Soft Plastics and even the Fly rod. Everything caught fish, but interestingly lures touched up with Squidgy S-Factor would get three times as many hits. Good to know for those tougher days.
As good as it was it almost got monotonous hooking a Thready every cast, so we ventured upstream until we found another snag ridden, three way junction that looked the goods. Bumping through some unseen timber with a 20’ deep diver I was destroyed by a metre plus Barra that inhaled the lure before powering out mid-stream, only to turn around and bury me in the sticks. Better to have hooked and lost, than to never have hooked at all! We had a red hot session on solid Jacks as we worked our way downstream, and I even managed two Jacks on one lure! In the heat of the session I was releasing flapping Mangrove Jacks off the deck and managed to “release” Dan’s favourite pliers back into the drink along with a thumper Jack. Pretty sure he’s only just forgiven me for that!
The next day or two were spent exploring the nearby creeks and reef systems and we had a ball catching more Barra, Threadies and Jacks, and Dan even managed his first fish on Fly when we came across a wide open bite at an inshore reef. A glassed out run home rounded out what was a fantastic remote trip. With an awesome wet season the territory is now in full flood so it’s shaping up to be an awesome run off. Catch ya on the water.
