{"id":21557,"date":"2018-06-22T01:00:23","date_gmt":"2018-06-21T15:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/realestatetalk.com.au\/?p=21557"},"modified":"2018-06-22T01:00:23","modified_gmt":"2018-06-21T15:00:23","slug":"more-softening-on-the-way-sydney-is-historically-the-worst-growth-city-knock-overs-grow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/channels.realty.com.au\/realtytalk\/more-softening-on-the-way-sydney-is-historically-the-worst-growth-city-knock-overs-grow\/","title":{"rendered":"More softening on the way + Sydney is historically the worst growth city + \u2018Knock-overs\u2019 grow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><u>Highlights from this week: <\/u><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The next suburbs to gentrify<\/li>\n<li>SQM tip a slowing market<\/li>\n<li>The factors to consider when comparing houses and units<\/li>\n<li>Real estate is all about the land \u2013 here is proof!<\/li>\n<li>We plot the double digit price growth in our capital cities<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Transcripts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>We plot the double digit price growth in our capital cities &#8211;\u00a0Simon Pressley<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Kevin:<\/strong>\u00a0 Gee, haven\u2019t we seen some tremendous price growth in the capital cities in recent times? It makes me wonder how often we\u2019ve seen double-digit price growth in the cap cities around Australia. So, that\u2019s the question we posed. We\u2019ve asked Simon Pressley that question from Propertyology.<\/p>\n<p>Simon, welcome back to the show. Good to have your company again, Simon.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Simon:<\/strong>\u00a0 Thanks, Kevin. Yes, always good to talk about these things.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kevin:<\/strong>\u00a0 Simon, how many times since the turn of the century has each capital city produced that double-digit price growth?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Simon:<\/strong>\u00a0 It\u2019s different in every city, but the record-holder for the number of calendar years over the last 18 years that double-digit price growth has been achieved \u2013 it\u2019s a surprise, people \u2013 is Darwin.<\/p>\n<p>Darwin has had more double-digit price growth years in 18 years than anywhere else. It\u2019s had 11 out of 18 years of double-digit price growth, which is one of the reasons why we like to do these historical studies from time to time, because Darwin, as we all know, over the last three years, now probably into its fourth year, has been in price decline.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes looking at history can be a good reminder that things are never as good as they seem nor are they as bad as they might seem at the time.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kevin:<\/strong>\u00a0 Talking about timing, how do you compare performance, say, pre- and post-GFC?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Simon:<\/strong>\u00a0 Certainly, pre-GFC Australian property markets right across the board, eight out of eight capital cities, pretty much every regional location produced some spectacular growth. Let me give some examples.<\/p>\n<p>The year 2000, the turn of the century, to the end of 2008, which we all recall was the onset of the GFC, that nine-year period of time, Brisbane\u2019s median dwelling price increased by 203%. 203% in nine years.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kevin:<\/strong>\u00a0 Wow.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Simon:<\/strong>\u00a0 Perth increased by 245%. Canberra and Adelaide were pretty close in third place, 186%. Actually, Hobart was ahead of them, 205% growth in nine years. The worst-performing capital city \u2013 I use the term \u201cworst\u201d lightly \u2013 Sydney, that nine-year period, prices grew by 93% in nine years, which is still spectacular growth but it was easily the worst growth.<\/p>\n<p>And then post-GFC, well, for a few years there, Darwin did again strong for a few years there. Perth had a strong year in 2013, but it\u2019s predominantly been a story of Sydney and Melbourne post-GFC to date, although they\u2019re in decline now, and Hobart more recently.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kevin:<\/strong>\u00a0 What are some of the biggest years of price growth?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Simon:<\/strong>\u00a0 It\u2019s fascinating when you look at what\u2019s been achieved before. Here are some stats for you. Hobart in 2003, 44% price growth in a calendar year and then the following year, 32%. So, property almost doubled probably in two and a half years in that period of time. But it\u2019s not unique to Hobart. Brisbane\u2019s strongest year of growth, 36% in 2003. Do you remember that, Kevin?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kevin:<\/strong>\u00a0 Wow, that is amazing. It is interesting to look back because we do forget this, don\u2019t we?<\/p>\n<p>Another question for you \u2013 you may or may not be able to answer this one \u2013 which city holds the record for the most consecutive years of double-digit growth?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Simon:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yes, it\u2019s Darwin again. Nine years in a row of double-digit price growth, so 2002 through to 2010 inclusive, double-digit price growth. Phenomenal. Now, I can\u2019t see anything on the immediate horizon for Darwin, but it has its own economic assets as every location does, and there will be time in the sun again for Darwin at some stage in the future.<\/p>\n<p>Sydney and Melbourne had eight years of double-digit price growth over the last 18 years, which is the second most after Darwin. Brisbane and Hobart had only four, but that said, it\u2019s probably proven to be more consistent than some of the other big capital cities.<\/p>\n<p>Years of decline, to keep this discussion balanced, every market has years of decline. Darwin has had the most, five out of 18 years, and Perth, sorry, six out of 18 years. That could imply boom-and-bust markets, when they have lots of years of double digit price growth and also the most years of decline. But the actual closer analysis of the data doesn\u2019t suggest boom and bust, certainly some big booms, but the years where there have been decline, we\u2019re talking single-digit declines. And Sydney and Melbourne are experiencing that now, aren\u2019t they?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kevin:<\/strong> \u00a0Yes, they are.<\/p>\n<p>Simon, when was the last time that a capital city produced 20% price growth in a calendar year?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Simon:<\/strong>\u00a0 Again, Darwin: 22% price growth in 2007, so we\u2019re going back ten years ago. I actually think the closest candidate to break that record \u2013 time will tell; there are seven months ago in the calendar year \u2013 Hobart. If anyone\u2019s going to break it, it\u2019s on track. It\u2019s a big call to say it will get 20%. I\u2019m not saying it will. But the metrics we look at, we know it\u2019s already had two really strong years and growth seems to be accelerating.<\/p>\n<p>Out of Hobart, not a chance at 20%. What I call metro Hobart \u2013 a seven- to eight-kilometer ring of the CBD. As I said, if anyone is going to break 20% in a calendar year, it\u2019s Hobart in 2018.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kevin:<\/strong>\u00a0 At the other end of the spectrum, how often do property prices decline in a calendar year?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Simon:<\/strong>\u00a0 They don\u2019t decline that often. As I said, Darwin has declined five times in 18 years, and Perth, six times. Canberra has only produced price declines in one calendar year in 18 years, and five other capital cities have only declined twice over 18 years. But anyone who says property prices never go backwards we know is telling some porkies there.<\/p>\n<p>Not that long ago, 2011, eight out of eight capital cities declined, and the following year, 2012, five out of eight capital cities declined. One of the three that didn\u2019t decline had zero growth, and that was Sydney.<\/p>\n<p>There would have been a lot of people\u2026 And sometimes investors can have short memories. Sydney was a flat market for a long, long period of time while most of Australia did really, really well. When it declined in 2011, a lot of people bowed out and said \u201cI\u2019ve had enough of this market.\u201d It did nothing in 2012 and then the rest is history, what happened in the next four and a half years. They had a big boom.<\/p>\n<p>So, those who are sitting on an asset now who think \u201cI\u2019m miserable, I shouldn\u2019t invest,\u201d or whatever, just have a think about what all those Sydney might have thought in 2012 and then what happened after that. Things are never as bad as what they seem, no matter what we\u2019re reading in the media each day. We always need housing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kevin:<\/strong>\u00a0 Mate, can I just round this conversation out, just with probably a pretty open question, but I\u2019m hoping you can answer it for me about the factors that influence this double-digit price growth and whether or not you think we can expect to see it any time again soon?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Simon:<\/strong>\u00a0 Look, it\u2019s a combination of things that cause really strong price growth, which obviously includes double-digit price growth, but in no particular order, it\u2019s when an economy improves. So, Sydney and Melbourne, the start of their boom was after coming out of several years of a very miserable economy.<\/p>\n<p>If we can remember back in that era, we had I think it was a Gillard Government, we had Wayne Swan as treasurer, and we were hearing every day about this two-speed economy. The resources sector was really, really strong, so it was parts of regional Australia that were the only ones who had a healthy property market, and all the capital cities were miserable.<\/p>\n<p>But when the economies started to improve and it was the service sector that saw the improvement first, then confidence was gained in those communities and markets started to rise. So, improving economies, general confidence is a flow-on effect from that.<\/p>\n<p>Availability of credit: that\u2019s probably one of the key differences between this current era and pre-GFC, when credit was a lot more readily available back then even though interest rates were twice as high then as what they are now.<\/p>\n<p>And affordability: there is no coincidence here that when we look at years of double-digit price growth, that the more affordable capital cities have had much bigger years. We use Brisbane as an example, 36% in 2003; Hobart, 44% in 2004.<\/p>\n<p>The more affordable capital cities have had much bigger price growth. Even though Sydney and Melbourne \u2013 the more expensive cities \u2013 have had double-digit growth, they\u2019ve been in the teens rather than the 20s, 30s, and in some cases, 40s.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kevin:<\/strong>\u00a0 Fascinating, mate. It\u2019s great research, and it\u2019s really nice to be able to bring it all together like this, so a great learning experience.<\/p>\n<p>Simon Pressley from Propertyology, thank you so much for your time and that really interesting look into double-digit price growth. Thanks, mate.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Simon:<\/strong>\u00a0 My pleasure. The glass is half-full, always is.<\/p>\n<h2>SQM tip a slowing market &#8211;\u00a0Louis Christopher<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Kevin:<\/strong>\u00a0 The figures released by Louis Christopher at SQM Research show that maybe the softening of the market that we have been seeing might just continue. Louis joins us to talk about that.<\/p>\n<p>Good day, Louis. How are you doing?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Louis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Good to be here, Kevin. Doing well, thank you.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kevin:<\/strong>\u00a0 Thanks, Louis. The listings were steady in May across the country?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Louis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yes, that is correct. Nationally, the listings stood at 325,000 rounded, which was absolutely unchanged from the previous month of April. Overall nationally, listings, when we look at the year-on-year change, was just up by 0.4%.<\/p>\n<p>What is happening is that there have been some cities that have recorded a little bit of lift in the month, some cities recording a decline in the month, and regionally, when we look at, for example, the mining towns, they\u2019re all recording falls in listings right now. So, the regionals are kind of off-setting some of the slow-down that we\u2019ve seen in the capital cities.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kevin:<\/strong>\u00a0 This is obviously a reflection of a lowering of consumer confidence, saying, \u201cWell, maybe this is not the best time to put my place on the market,\u201d Louis?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Louis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yes and no. We did record, for example, a rise in Melbourne of 2.4%. I think what\u2019s going on there is that some vendors are looking at the market and saying \u201cActually, we need to sell now if we want to try and pick the top of the market or try and get that price that we were hoping to get because the market could end up moving south from here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I think there are a number of vendors who are in that camp right now. They\u2019re actually thinking, \u201cLet\u2019s sell now while the going is still good.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kevin:<\/strong>\u00a0 There have been some reports out in the last week or two about particularly investors wanting to sit on their hands and saying \u201cThis is not necessarily a good time. I think I\u2019ll probably hold onto my property for a little bit longer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Do you share that sentiment, Louis?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Louis:<\/strong>\u00a0 I think that there are potential vendors who look at it that way. And maybe they\u2019re not vendors to begin with; they\u2019re long-term property owners who are quite happy to just see the cycle through, so they\u2019re not really that interested sellers.<\/p>\n<p>But there\u2019s also another camp of property owners who have been looking to potentially exit out. They\u2019re either looking to upgrade, downgrade, maybe sell out altogether, and they will be looking at the market now, particularly in Sydney and Melbourne, saying \u201cWe should sell now while we still got relatively more buyers in the market because things could actually get worse later in the year.\u201d So, there is definitely that camp of sellers that is operating in the market right now.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kevin:<\/strong>\u00a0 I think quite a few people have been surprised by what\u2019s happened in Hobart \u2013 and I noticed in your report, too, the listings have fallen in Hobart, which is probably going to make that situation a little bit worse for potential buyers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Louis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Absolutely, yes. Listings were down by 4.7% for the month. So, right now, there are just 2000 listings in the marketplace for Hobart, and some years back, just to give you an idea, during the slowdown, Hobart normally gets about 10,000 to 12,000 listings.<\/p>\n<p>There is hardly anything out there right now, Kevin, in terms of listings in Hobart. It\u2019s definitely a seller\u2019s market. Listings are down 26% year on year. I\u2019d rather be a seller right now than a buyer. Let\u2019s put it that way.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kevin:<\/strong>\u00a0 In Canberra, too, listings have fallen just a little bit. We\u2019ve seen a little bit of a lift in that Canberra market in recent times.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Louis:<\/strong>\u00a0 We have. The Canberra market did have a recovery in 2016 and 2017, and it appears so far this year that the recovery is set to continue. It\u2019s not a boom by any means, but it is nevertheless a market that is favoring sellers. There are plenty of buyers. And the Canberra housing market has always been correlated to how much expenditure is occurring at the federal level.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kevin:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yeah, because it flows through to employment, doesn\u2019t it?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Louis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Absolutely.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kevin:<\/strong>\u00a0 Interesting comparison there too, Louis, just before I let you go. The capital city asking prices for houses rose slightly but fell for units.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Louis:<\/strong>\u00a0 That is correct. We have to be careful we don\u2019t read too much into these numbers on a week-by-week, month-by-month basis, but it is true that we recorded some rises. For example, Brisbane recorded a 0.2% rise in houses and just a 0.1% rise in units.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s mixed overall in terms of what the asking prices actually did show. In Melbourne, for example, they recorded a 0.5% fall in houses and a 0.7% fall for units. So, mixed overall. I would say long-term, it\u2019s showing that houses tend to perform a little bit better than units with regard to capital growth.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kevin:<\/strong>\u00a0 Excellent. Always good talking to you, Louis Christopher from SQMResearch.com.au.<\/p>\n<p>Louis, thanks for your time.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Louis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Good to be here, Kevin.<\/p>\n<h2>Real estate is all about the land \u2013 here is proof! &#8211;\u00a0Shannon Davis<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Kevin:\u00a0 <\/strong>One thing we do know is that when you\u2019re investing in property, you have to be aware of what the trends are all the time. One thing that I\u2019ve noticed, and I think my guest in this interview is going to reinforce, is that there are a lot more properties being knocked down \u2013 the land is the most valuable part of the investment \u2013 of course, and new dwellings being put on that, either single dwellings or double dwellings.<\/p>\n<p>Shannon Davis is from Image Property, and they have offices in Melbourne and Brisbane.<\/p>\n<p>Shannon, thanks again for your time.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Shannon:\u00a0 <\/strong>Good day, Kevin.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kevin:\u00a0 <\/strong>Shannon, is it my imagination, or is this a bit of a trend?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Shannon:\u00a0 <\/strong>Yes. I think right now in the cap city that I have the most alignment to, in Brisbane especially, is we\u2019re seeing a thirst for land. Those infill opportunities are becoming more and more scarce, and people who have land-banked or have recently purchased are paying higher and higher amounts to put contemporary properties in place of character housing or older-style properties.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kevin:\u00a0 <\/strong>It makes it a very expensive proposition, doesn\u2019t it, because effectively, you buy a house and land and you knock the house out, effectively paying that just for the land.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Shannon:\u00a0 <\/strong>Yes, and you have the full cost of construction to come later. And often, these are houses that are owner-occupied type houses where people want to build their dream house and they have higher specifications.<\/p>\n<p>To give you an idea, we were at auction for a client recently and we were expecting a good price \u2013 it was in one of Brisbane\u2019s best streets with great views to the back \u2013 but it just exceeded everyone\u2019s expectations for the price to go out past $1.4 million for a knockdown. And that\u2019s what we\u2019re seeing in some of the better suburbs of Brisbane.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kevin:\u00a0 <\/strong>I can understand if you\u2019re spending that amount of money and you\u2019re going to be able to take the house out and get two \u2013 or maybe even three \u2013 on it, because it does lower the site cost. But just to put house for house, to me, doesn\u2019t seem to make a lot of sense.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Shannon:\u00a0 <\/strong>I think you have owner-occupiers who are either in successful businesses or well assured of their jobs and prospects at the moment and have always wanted that dream house to entertain and grow up their children and not want for anything. They tend to be good investments going forward, that they\u2019re in the right areas surrounded by the right demographics and have the right dirt that makes up a good investment.<\/p>\n<p>But you do see from time to time that these prestigious areas that are maybe double or triple the median price of the cap city can be prone to share market corrections, and sometimes those trophy type houses don\u2019t make sense if there\u2019s a recession or a big slide on the price of shares or a financial crisis.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kevin:\u00a0 <\/strong>As we\u2019ve already highlighted, the fact that the land is where the value is, if you\u2019re buying an investment property now with a view to knocking it down in the future, what size block should you be looking at \u2013 400 or 600 square meters?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Shannon:\u00a0 <\/strong>I think you should try and get a high land-to-asset ratio into your purchase wherever possible. Not all land is created equal.<\/p>\n<p>I think what\u2019s really driving this is you\u2019ve got the big outer suburbs land-and-house packages, but people are wary of the commute. If you get stuck in that commute from 7:00 to 8:30, it can be a really long time. While you\u2019re in there, there seem to be 80% of the cars on the road at the same time doing the school and work run.<\/p>\n<p>I think that\u2019s one of the things where people are wanting to move closer rather than further, and they\u2019re happy to take perhaps a smaller block in order to build a house on that block and be further in with a smaller commute.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kevin:\u00a0 <\/strong>Can I just ask, on that point, Shannon, Sydney and Melbourne, are we seeing a similar trend there?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Shannon:\u00a0 <\/strong>Yes, definitely. It has been for some time that you\u2019re seeing people come in wherever possible and redevelop plots of land closer to the city. And while those markets have had a very good run and showing some signs of slowing a bit at the moment, you\u2019ll still see owner-occupiers taking the time to build their dream homes and knock down what was previously there to reconfigure something that\u2019s going to be more suitable for their lifestyle.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kevin:\u00a0 <\/strong>I guess they figure that they\u2019re going to hold it for some time as well, which makes it even more logical to purchase that way.<\/p>\n<p>The Brisbane market is still very, very affordable. Are you seeing many people coming from Sydney and Melbourne because of the affordability and looking at getting a development happening?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Shannon:\u00a0 <\/strong>Yes, we\u2019re getting more interest for rental applications, we\u2019re getting more interested in unit blocks that we have for sale, development sites that we have for sale, and also, you start to see the move back up. Things get over-bought and over-sold, and I think for a period, perhaps Sydney and Melbourne have been over-bought and Brisbane has been over-sold.<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019re going to start to see that equalize a little bit more now because the gap is at its widest. The biggest problem was jobs not being created. That\u2019s on the way back up. The migration is on the way back up, and there\u2019s a much better affordability for lifestyle reasons to move to Australia\u2019s third biggest city.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kevin:\u00a0 <\/strong>Yes. Good talking to you. Shannon Davis from Image Property with offices in Brisbane and Melbourne. You can reach them at their website, of course, at ImageProperty.com.au.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Shannon:\u00a0 <\/strong>That\u2019s correct, KT.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kevin:\u00a0 <\/strong>Good on you. Thanks, Shannon, talk to you again soon.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Shannon:\u00a0 <\/strong>Okay. Bye.<\/p>\n<h2>The next suburbs to gentrify &#8211;\u00a0Peter Koulizos<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Kevin:\u00a0 <\/strong>As a property investor, you only have to look at different parts of Australia where gentrification has actually occurred to what the reaction is going to be, what the ramifications will be, and how that looks from an investment portfolio basis.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s some new research that\u2019s just been released by the Property Investment Professionals of Australia, PIPA, an organization we strongly support, that\u2019s revealed the next group of city suburbs that are set to gentrify. PIPA\u2019s chairman, Peter Koulitzos, joins me to talk about that.<\/p>\n<p>Hi, Peter. How are you doing?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Peter:\u00a0 <\/strong>Very good. Thank you, Kevin.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kevin:\u00a0 <\/strong>This is such an interesting story, isn\u2019t it? Gentrification is something that I only started to hear about 10 or 15 years ago. It\u2019s been going on for generations, hasn\u2019t it?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Peter:\u00a0 <\/strong>It has, yes. It was coined as gentrification back in the U.K. many decades ago \u2013 back in the 1960s, actually \u2013 when they started to see the gentry moving into older, down-and-out areas. And that\u2019s also been happening in the U.S. where wealthier people are moving into the inner-city areas, and obviously in Australia.<\/p>\n<p>Yes. There are many parts around the world where gentrification occurs \u2013 basically, people moving into areas that were regarded as blue collar, not very desirable to live in, but because of its proximity to the city or the sea, and very importantly, the historical buildings there, it attracts a lot of people.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kevin:\u00a0 <\/strong>It\u2019s all about lifestyle, isn\u2019t it? If we look at the ones that have been gentrified recently that we\u2019ve talked about, they are all close into the city, they are carrying older-style homes, which brings about a certain amount of romance too, I suppose, doesn\u2019t it?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Peter:\u00a0 <\/strong>It does. And Australians love older property. The older, the better. It\u2019s not uncommon for a 120-year-old house to sell for more than a 20-year-old house, everything else being the same. And from an economics point of view, it makes sense, because they\u2019re not making any more original Queenslander style homes or Federation or Edwardian style homes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kevin:\u00a0 <\/strong>I\u2019m going to ask you about the suburbs in just a moment, but the 20 different demographics that you dug into to get this research, tell me about that, just so that we know a little bit more about the research.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Peter:\u00a0 <\/strong>Sure. I did some academic research a little while ago, and I compared two suburbs that are next-door to each other in my hometown of Adelaide. I compared a suburb called Torrensville, and right next door to it is one called Brooklyn Park.<\/p>\n<p>Just to give you an idea, Torrensville is similar to, say, Yarraville in Melbourne or Erskineville in Sydney. It\u2019s only three kilometers from the city and full of character or period style homes, whereas Brooklyn Park \u2013 which is just next door \u2013 was really developed after World War II and full of 1960s\u2019 homes.<\/p>\n<p>I was looking for differences in demographic data, property data to try to determine if there are things that can be easily measured to help determine whether an area is going to gentrify or not. And as you said, I looked at about 20 different factors.<\/p>\n<p>They included houses versus units, the size of the land, whether there was a big change in the people who moved into the area, was there an ethnic background to it, was it based on married people? So, lots of different demographic factors.<\/p>\n<p>But in the end, I came up with four that seem to be fairly reliable in helping to determine whether an area is in the early stages of gentrification.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kevin:\u00a0 <\/strong>Great. Let\u2019s run through those quickly. What are they?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Peter:\u00a0 <\/strong>The first one was a greater decrease than the state average in people aged 18 years and under. In other words, a gentrifying area will have less children.<\/p>\n<p>A greater increase than the state average in couples without children. Those two are very closely tied.<\/p>\n<p>A greater increase than the state average in people who lived at a different address five years ago. What this is telling me is that for gentrification to occur, you need different people moving into the area.<\/p>\n<p>Typically, what you\u2019ll have is in these areas, there will be people who moved in 40 or 50 years ago and are now in their 70s and 80s and don\u2019t have the money nor the borrowing capacity nor the skills nor the energy to fix up their homes. So, as they leave the area, then younger people, white-collar people, professionals move in. They have the money, they have the borrowing capacity, and they have the knowledge and the skills \u2013 or they can access people with that knowledge and skills \u2013 to fix up their properties.<\/p>\n<p>Another very surprising factor for me was a greater increase in the percentage of females working in professional occupations. It wasn\u2019t just anyone working in professional occupations. In particular, if you can detect an increase in the number of females who work in professional occupations such as managers, teachers, executives, architects, and so on, that is one of the indicators to help determine whether an area is in the early stages of gentrification.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kevin:\u00a0 <\/strong>That last point you just made is really interesting, because females bring a certain amount of \u2013 how can I say this, Peter \u2013 class to an area. Maybe they\u2019re a little bit more demanding about the style of restaurants that they\u2019ll go to, the shops that they go to, and so on, but also working in professional occupations, they have a higher disposable income.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Peter:\u00a0 <\/strong>Yes, that\u2019s right. And if you\u2019re on your own with no dependents, whether you\u2019re male or female, you have a higher disposable income. 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Some of the physical signs you\u2019ll see are little studios popping up in the suburb, and not necessarily on the main road but on the side streets. Maybe the electricity poles are painted. There might be a community garden with artwork. That\u2019s a very early sign that things are happening.<\/p>\n<p>But there\u2019s no real fear of missing out, because the gentrification process can take 20 to 30 years. Places like Balmain and Paddington in Sydney didn\u2019t come good overnight; they took decades to come good. Or places like Richmond in Melbourne or West End in Brisbane, they took a long time to come good.<\/p>\n<p>You can try and guess which areas might gentrify, but I find that the safest thing is to look for the early indicators that it is already happening, you know you have 20 to 30 years in front of you to benefit from that, so you have a much safer bet by buying into the areas that are just showing some of these indicators.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kevin:\u00a0 <\/strong>We\u2019ve got a few seconds left, so let\u2019s just quickly run through some of the suburbs that you have actually highlighted in Melbourne.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Peter:\u00a0 <\/strong>In Melbourne, Braybrook, Footscray, and West Footscray, all in inner western Melbourne.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kevin:\u00a0 <\/strong>And Sydney?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Peter:\u00a0 <\/strong>Arncliffe, St. Peters, and Tempe.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kevin:\u00a0 <\/strong>And Brisbane?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Peter:\u00a0 <\/strong>Annerley, Lutwyche, and Woolloongabba.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kevin:\u00a0 <\/strong>And Adelaide?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Peter:\u00a0 <\/strong>Thebarton, West Croydon, and Hindmarsh.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kevin:\u00a0 <\/strong>There you go. 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People want the lock-and-leave lifestyle, they want views, they want all of that happening, and so if that\u2019s where the demand is, that\u2019s where the price pressure will be, and that\u2019s where the growth will be, and that\u2019s where the rents will be.<\/p>\n<p>You have to have an awareness of the market you\u2019re buying into, and where that market is going and where the future is of that market.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kevin<\/strong>:\u00a0 Just to help Monica a little bit, is there a tipping point with the amount of stock? If you look at a particular suburb, for instance, and maybe it\u2019s got 40% units and 60% houses, but there tend to be more units coming up, would that be an indicator for you that maybe it\u2019s time to look at apartments, that that might be shifting a little bit?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Patrick<\/strong>:\u00a0 Maybe. Again, I would look at it carefully. Let\u2019s pick on a suburb, for instance, Dee Why, which is on Sydney\u2019s northern beaches. 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Where you\u2019re going to generally get better performance with an apartment is in an area often with views and some uniquenesses about it, and so that\u2019s something you have to weigh in.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kevin<\/strong>:\u00a0 Yes, history, of course, leaves great clues \u2013 doesn\u2019t it \u2013 if you go back and look at the history of an area and analyze it. Over what period should you go back, do you think? Is it good enough to go back, say, three to five years?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Patrick<\/strong>:\u00a0 At least. Look, when I\u2019m buying a property, I look at it this way. I look back even 20, 30, 40, or 50 years, and I say, \u201cWhat was the prime real estate 30 or 40 years ago?\u201d It\u2019s generally the prime stuff today, and \u2013 guess what \u2013 it\u2019s probably going to be the prime stuff in the next 30 or 40 years. That\u2019s how I like to make my investment decision.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, history leaves clues, but you also have to factor in where the future is going. If the future is going towards that type of product \u2013 say, a more apartment-style product \u2013 and you\u2019re in the right location, you should do very well. Particularly, if you\u2019re in a land-locked location, and you have something unique about it \u2013 you have got water views \u2013 that sort of thing is very appealing to the market.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kevin<\/strong>:\u00a0 Yes, very interesting, mate. Thank you, and that\u2019s certainly answered Monica\u2019s question. 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