Green Ivy Property

26/05/2026

Development update at our Caboolture project 👷‍♀️🏡

While everyone often focuses on the new builds, there’s also a huge amount of work involved in repositioning and improving the existing dwelling on Lot 4.

One thing I’ve learned over the years is that development is never just about construction — it’s finance, planning, consultants, infrastructure, timelines and problem-solving every step of the way.

Excited to continue sharing the journey from raw site through to completed homes.

18/05/2026

A little reality check from the development world 🌧️👷‍♀️

We’re currently down to the final two items before plan sealing on our Caboolture project, with one of the major ones being the boring works under the road to complete the electricity connection to site.

Unfortunately, with all the recent rain, everything has come to a temporary stop. This type of work simply can’t be done properly in these conditions — way too much mud and access issues on site.

People often only see the finished homes, but behind every development there are weather delays, infrastructure coordination and plenty of unexpected challenges along the way.

Definitely a good reminder that development is never a perfectly smooth process 😅

13/05/2026

🚨 Proposed Capital Gains Tax Changes Explained Simply 🚨

Here’s a very easy example of what the proposed property tax changes could mean for investors from 1 July 2027.

🏡 Example:
You buy an investment property for $800,000
Later sell it for $1.3 million

Profit = $500,000

✅ CURRENT RULES:
If held longer than 12 months, you get a 50% CGT discount.

So:
$500,000 profit becomes only $250,000 taxable income.

❌ PROPOSED NEW RULES:
Instead of halving the gain, the government would only adjust your purchase price for inflation (“indexation”).

Example:
If inflation over that time was 20%:

Your $800,000 purchase price becomes:
$960,000 indexed cost base

So:
$1.3m sale price minus $960k
= $340,000 taxable gain

📌 Result:
Under the proposed rules, investors could pay tax on $340,000 instead of $250,000.

That’s potentially tens of thousands more tax.

The changes are designed to:
• reduce speculation on existing homes
• encourage investment into NEW housing supply
• make tax concessions less generous on established properties

Interesting times ahead for the Australian property market. 👀

As always if you need to chat further - I am only a coffee away 💚💚💚

22/04/2026

This is an interesting short video from Tom Panos, about when the government back in 1985 made changes to the capital gains tax....

https://shorturl.at/4SuxD

Will history repeat itself? Between 1985 and 1987, the government removed negative gearing, rents surged as investors exited, and within two years, they reversed the policy after the rental market came under pressure