Transcript: Mortgage applications were down almost one per cent in the June quarter, another sign the housing market is beginning to cool. Credit reporting agency Equifax’s quarterly consumer credit demand index shows the number of mortgage applications in the three months to June across Australia were...
Transcript: For buyers searching for a home in Australia’s mining towns, it is as though the nation’s unprecedented mining boom never happened. Median prices in key mining centres in Queensland and Western Australia have fallen to below the average price of more than a decade ago,...
Jo Powell isn’t one to shy away from a property challenge. She made her first investment in real estate when she was just 20 years old, purchasing a small residential home as an investment, which she eventually renovated and sold for a tidy profit. Fast-forward...
Data collected by BMT Tax Depreciation, Australia’s leading tax depreciation specialist, indicates that in the 2016-2017 financial year there was a 22 per cent growth in the number of schedules requested for granny flats nationwide. Of the states Queensland, Western Australia and New South Wales saw...
We all know that Sydney has stolen all the property headlines over recent years, but there has been another big news story happening at the same time. What is it? It’s buying off the plan – and buying new units in particular. Our property markets are changing, from...
Transcript: Foreign investor activity is set to fall “considerably” over the 2017-18 period, according to the Master Builders Association in its latest building and construction forecast. With foreign buyer-supported apartment commencements in the Sydney market expected to fall from the 2015-16 peak of nearly 50,000 new...
Dan Sasse is relatively new to property investing, having purchased his first rental home just four years ago. However, he’s been a busy man and has built a portfolio of five properties across three states in that time. But despite his proactive buying strategy, Dan feels he’s...
Let’s face it, the Millennials have the coolest name of ALL the generations. But, if you’re to believe the popular consensus, they and their slightly older cousins Gen Y are really up against it in the battle to buy that most basic of human requirements...
Australia is a country of eight States and Territories, which each have their own, sometimes unique, laws. The laws around real estate differ substantially across these regions, and there can be quite a few differences depending on which part of the country you are buying or...