Property market forecasting is extremely difficult with dozens of variables to consider and then most forecasters who publish annual forecasts get it wrong a majority of times. Just because the analyst is an economist, or a bank, doesn’t make their forecasts more reliable, in fact,...
Investing in the property asset class (that essential commodity called ‘shelter’) requires a long-term game plan. Ten years from now, if we were to look back and analyse which property markets throughout Australia performed the best, my money is that we will be referring to...
If you had a $1M to invest, would you be better buying 1 property in a high growth area or look to cutting up the cake with a view to investing in 3 different markets? Simon Pressley, Head of Property Market Research at Propertyology has...
The more property-related material one consumes the more times one will hear the term ‘hotspot’. At any point in time, if we were to take stock of every location around the country that every so-called ‘expert’ was declaring a hotspot we’d be well within our...
‘Don’t judge a book by its cover’ is just as true in astute property investment as it is in life. Humans have an innate tendency to form strong, often lasting, opinions based on an initial visual interpretation of something—the ‘first impression’. Doing so can mean...
There's no doubt that Melburnian Callan was dedicated to the idea of property investment from his teenage years. In fact, so keen was he to get a start on the property ladder that he saved about 30 per cent of his wage – when he was...
There’s no question Sydney and Melbourne property owners have been riding the golden wave of property price glory for quite some time now. And we all know that good things eventually come to an end. There’s been plenty of speculation and debate about peaks and bubbles...
Propertyology’s Simon Pressley says that the property markets in our two biggest capitals will moderate in 2018 but he says that is not the biggest dilemma facing property owners there. Many will make the mistake of not making hay while the sun shines or leaving...
This time last year, Sydney and Melbourne were in the middle of a property market boom and every property market analyst in Australia was predicted that those same cities would again finish top-of-the- table in 2017. Everyone except Propertyology, that is - we were the...