Ballina Information Blog

Long-established Ballina real estate agency Elders is to become part of the McGrath Estate Agents group.
As of December 14, Elders will trade as McGrath Ballina/Byron.
However, the business will continue to operate out of its River Street premises.
The Ballina office will service the broader Ballina/Byron Bay region. McGrath also will open a Tweed Heads office which [...]

Lennox Head land sales confirm a return of confidence in coastal New South Wales, with 13 sales in Stage 2 of Elevation Estate for a total value of $3.9 million over the past two months.
With full support of regional estate agents and builders, Elevation is well on the way to a sell-out of its latest [...]

Solicitor Sean Radburn (pictured with his family) is eagerly awaiting completion of his two-storey home within Lennox Head’s boutique residential estate, Elevation.
“With three children we were impressed with the playground, the level building blocks, the sea breezes and views,” he said.
The recent drops in interest rates and the increase in the first home owners grant [...]

Building your ideal home in the Ballina and Lennox Head areas is now more attainable for those on a budget, a recent report has found.
The report by PRDnationwide Queensland research analyst Aaron Maskrey provides an area overview of population, age structure and area characteristics while highlighting the housing market and outlook within the area.
“The Ballina [...]

Ballina has been identifed as a property ‘hot spot’ in a national survey.
“Regardless of the stage of the property cycle, there are always new hot spots emerging that have the potential to out-perform the market and deliver above-average growth to investors,” said national property market forecaster Terry Ryder of www.hotspotting.com.au.
Mr Ryder says that Ballina and [...]

It will come as no surprise to potential first-home buyers in the Ballina Shire area — a report has found that Ballina Shire is the third most unaffordable place to live in regional NSW for teachers, nurses, police officers, ambulance officers and fire-fighters.
The BankWest Key Worker Housing Affordability Report released this week based on ‘key [...]

The Wardell Progress Association had its most recent meeting on February 21, with a large attendace of 29 locals and three shire councillors.
Councillors David Wright and Keith Johnson and Mayor Phillip Silver gave an update on local issues.
Cr Wright presented to the meeting an update on the new wharf which is about to go through [...]

Ballina Shire Council has commissioned GeoLINK to prepare a master plan for Council owned land located in and around the Southern Cross Industrial Estate in Ballina.  The master plan will provide a framework for the detailed planning and release of the land.  The study area contains a number of significant and important land uses that [...]

A charity golf day at Ballina Golf Club on Sunday, April 29, will get the Ballina Shire Healthy Community Futures Fund close to its goal of raising $150,000 to buy computerised radiology equipment for Ballina Hospital.
The AMP Foundation has announced that it will match any money raised on the day, dollar-for-dollar up to a total [...]

Ballina MP Don Page today announced the NSW Liberal/Nationals Coalition would exempt 39,000 families and small businesses from paying land tax by raising the land tax threshold to $415,000.
Mr Page said the NSW Coalition would raise the threshold by $47,000, from the NSW Labor Government’s $368,000 to $415,000 in 2007/08.
“Raising the threshold will also provide [...]