If one was to have made a strategic decision at the start of 2015 to invest in property, from a capital growth perspective, the median house price has increased slightly more in Sydney (43.1 per cent) than Melbourne (41 per cent) over the 3 years...
I recently received an e-mail from Kathy, an investor who purchased an investment property, which settled after a 30-day cooling off period. While that is not normal, that was not the point of the question. Kathy’s question relates to a protracted negotiation that impacted depreciation...
Dr Andrew Wilson, Chief Economist from My Housing Market, presents exclusively for Real Estate Talk and this week he details the surprising result from Sydney Inner West and Lower and Upper North Shore in stark contrast from a very poor result from the West of...
We look into the question about buying before auction. No doubt many buyers would prefer not to put themselves under the competition of auction day. Cate Bakos from the Real Estate Buyer’s Agents Association of Australia points out that there are three different ways to...
Danni Addison is the Victorian CEO for the Urban Development Institute of Australia. She takes a look at housing affordability, if we have a problem, what it takes to get into home ownership and what we should be considering if we’re looking at making housing...
“When you’re just starting out, you don’t know what you don't know.” The property industry is the biggest employer in Australia, with more than one million people nation-wide working in real estate-related jobs. The lead article in the latest edition of Your Investment Property magazine called “The...
Longest interest rate dry spell The Reserve Bank of Australia has decided to keep interest rates steady at 1.5% The RBA hasn’t raised official interest rates since late 2010, while rates have remained stagnant since August 2016 – the longest spell of policy inertia to date. While last year...
Death and the inevitable flow-on effects – whether socially, emotionally or financially – on family and friends can be so significant that we often dare not even broach the topic. But, in doing so, we fail to put in place proper contingency plans that would help...
Highlights from this week: Complications over exchange time frames The way not to get your offer accepted How brokers work with banks Why housing in Australia is not unaffordable How a ‘boardroom auction’ works Where many buyers go wrong in research The role investors...