One week on.....

The waters have receded quickly and they left behind a community united in spirit and bond between neighbours that was not always present before.

Last Saturday morning hundreds, maybe thousands, of people poured into the few streets of New Farm that had minor flooding. They came armed with shovels, utes, brooms & gloves. Many people packed esky’s and distrusted drinks, while local restaurants and curb side BBQ stands fed the masses. The response across the city was humbling, every persons story was greeted with a coy smile and “well there are a lot of people worse off than me”.

In terms of property, the effects on the market will be known as time pushes forward. Most soothsayers are predicting a rise in rents, a reduction in unemployment and a potential price increase in non-flood affected addresses.

For those of you living outside the South East, or anyone interested, I have a number of property reports that I can forward on – Matusik’s Report, HTW Valuers, Propell Valuers & Westpac. Please email me if you would like a copy of any or all of these reports hc@rwnf.com.au.

At a glance:

· Full day of opens tomorrow – www.rwnf.com.au

· 5+ million in sales made so far this year (above last year’s figures)

· 7 rental properties affected by flooding (most minor, 1 relocation)

· Med-high level of enquiry on all property

· 8 streets received some minor disruption

· 4 streets medium disruption

Fishing in Villiers Street New Farm

A lighter side - a whiting caught on the Cnr of Hawthorne & Villiers St New Farm

An Aerial Shot - Before and After

Have a look at the link below:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/infographics/qld-floods/beforeafter.htm

New Farm Floods - The Clean Up

The clean up has began, thousands upon thousands of people descended on Flood affected areas in and around South East Queensland. The number of volunteers (known now as the 'Mud Army') was staggering and the amount of work already done is quite unbelievable.

Today the CBD was re-opened and power has come back to many more buildings. There is obviously still a lot of people without power and months (maybe years) away from moving back into their properties.

Council has warned of another King Tide this week as well as more rain. Whilst the river will again rise, they are planning to control the water flow with scheduled released from the dams.

New Farm Floods - Day 3 Pictures

Today the clean up began. Locals decended on the worst affected streets and helped many people.

Some of the people were just cleaning, some were preparing for an entirely new existance. Nothing spared, everything stinking, no insurance - a whole new begining.







Lamington Street looking down toward Welsby and Sydney St's. Been blocked for 3 days, covered in water, today all clear.
















Longlands & Ann St - A river yesterday, today all gone.

Cnr or Sydney and Merthyr Rd - Yesterday 1m water for 200-300m

Message from Lord Mayor last night

Message from Lord Mayor, click on link below:

https://www.thewebconsole.com/tools/dbm/campaign/view/contact/716190/_contact/4c5e6d859ed6930cd6546aedac8cbabd/campaign/263485/_campaign/5058f1af8388633f609cadb75a75dc9d/r/277641

New Farm Floods - Day 3

We have woken to the wonderful news that the waters have receded heavily. Whilst many parts of Brisbane are still holding large volumes of water, New Farm has begun it's clean up.

To those of you that own property in the area, I will be updating some photo's of the clean up later today. I been on the phones today to many landlords, tenants and prospective buyers. I believe that as an area we will bounce out of this with confidence.

We have buyers due to settle on properties in the next few days, they are thrilled with the way the area performed in such a devastating time.