Research

The competition is just as high in the 24 hours after a property has been passed in at auction, as at the auction itself. New research reveals that passed-in properties don’t commonly sell for less than the last bid.  Auctioneer of the year Justin Nickerson...

You’d be excused for thinking that the property market in Australia is all doom and gloom. We’re hearing about reductions in price, the Sydney market falling and so on, but you’re going to be really surprised to hear a report that we’ll be talking about...

When to fire your property manager?   That is a question posed in the latest Your Investment Property magazine and we quiz editor Sarah Megginson about it and why she says property investing cannot be set and forget. Transcript: Kevin:  As you would no doubt be aware, issue...

The Sydney rental market has recorded the highest vacancy rate in at least 13 years according to Louis Christopher from SQM Research.   He says the Sydney rental market is just about at the tipping point and he explains what that means for owners and investors. Transcript: Kevin:  The...

Easing house price pressures are proving some affordability relief for home buyers according to the HIA. Joining us to talk about this, HIA economist Diwa Hopkins.   Diwa says the most affordable capital right now was the least affordable only a few years ago.  So what...

We know that there is no one market anywhere.  Every city, suburb and street in the world operates differently.  That is also the case with construction.  Developers are known to be ahead of the market.  Dr Andrew Wilson has produced a series of graphs exclusively...