suzyt

Hi is there a good and a bad time to try and rent a property in Australia, we are going to out in Brisbane i think around November time may be a little later, does the rental market dry up around christams time or does it just keep ticking along.

leave_n_on_a_Jet

ching ching dries up around xmas normally
prob more now with people selling up and moving into rented

also most not all rented are crap holes, takes a while to find a nice one,
if you dont mind dirty old cold houses with no air con you'll be ok

u can check what on offer on www.realestate.com.au or www.domain.com.au best to start loking now then u can see the ones that have been up 4 ages that no one wants

James

suzyt

Oh god really , it cant be that bad surely.

Scrawni 2

We arrive on the GC in January last year and rentals were few. Everytime we turned up to a rental we were in competition with about 7 other families.

We got down to the last week before our cat come out of quaranteen before we managed to get a house.

We are now at the end of the lease and they tried to get us to stay for a further 3 months because they say the will have no problems letting it over summer here. They say it gets busy from about Oct till Feb which in my own experience is bang on.

gillysm

Dries up isn't the term I'd use - hot's up is more like it - you will be in competition with loads of others, especially families, most of whom like to move around that time to get settled before the new school year starts at the end of January.

jonnywonny

hi book well in advance we got a 4 bedroom furnished house untill are stuff arrived i dont no if they are booked up but its worth asking www.jimboombarelocations.com. i dont no what we would of done without there help & they meet you at the airport jonny

suzyt

Cheers thanks for that guys, a least we know now that this is something else that need to be sorted sooner rather than later.

moneypenny20

One thing about renting in SE QLD From December through January is that lots of interstaters pack up for the whole of the school holidays and move up into rentals. The good ones are booked up a year or so in advance. Once they go back home, you have far more choice.