The Queensland economy is now well into recovery stage after an inevitable slump following the mining boom.

Like many getting-a-bit-long-in-the-tooth Sydneysiders, I've increasingly been having recurring daydreams about selling a place at Bondi or in the inner west and trading it for a mansion at Maroochydore (or sometime it's a mooring at Mooloolaba).

INVESTOR numbers seem to have fallen off a cliff in southern capitals but Brisbane was expected to buck the trend, according to latest expert analysis.

The Federal Government is evaluating a fast rail project that could connect Brisbane and the Sunshine Coast in as little as 45 minutes.

Do people have any idea of the risks lurking in their superannuation savings?

Australians make up barely 0.3 per cent of the globe's population and yet hold $2.1 trillion in pension savings - the world's fourth-largest such pool.

The number of interstate migrants to Queensland is the highest it’s been for eight years, supporting predictions of an emerging exodus of Sydney and Melbourne homeowners selling up and moving to the Sunshine State.

House hunters are steering away from Sydney and Melbourne and turning their attention to Brisbane, according to property data group CoreLogic.

The latest annual report on 'fat cat' superannuation and managed funds by online investment platform, Stockspot, shows an 18 per cent fall in the number of poor-value funds from last year.