Have you caught up with The Block auction fiasco? Now here’s a little confession… I don’t watch The Block other than the last show in each series to see how the auctions go. And as I watched the auction show last Sunday I was amazed at Scott Cam’s poor advice when Ronnie and Georgia’s home failed…
Buy counter cyclically. That’s what many “experts” are suggesting. In fact, Warren Buffet is famous for saying: “Be greedy when others are fearful and be fearful when others are greedy.” But this strategy is not foolproof. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn’t. Let me explain… Currently, after massive price growth for over 5 years,…
Goodness me, a thunderous +371,500 increase in Australian employment over the year to September 2017, for a massive increase of +3.1 per cent in the total number of employed to nearly 12.3 million. That makes it 12 months in a row for employment growth. Meanwhile jobs vacancies have also increased to the highest level on…
Demographics is a major driver of our property markets. And the 2016 Census came us some intersting insights into the way we live. More than half of us now live in one or 2 people households – I remember when the “typical” family was mum and dad and two children. And more families are only…