Do you understand what your strategic advantage is as a property investor? More importantly, do you know how to use it to your advantage? By understanding more about your strategic advantage, it could dramatically change the way you plan to invest. Not only that, but it could also significantly fast track and enhance your results!…
A surge of Australians looking to buy a property has seen prices soar in some Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane suburbs over the past two years. Property prices have hit record highs this year and, despite the effects of Covid19 recent Domain Research shows median prices rose annually 6.7% across Sydney houses, 3.9% in Melbourne houses…
Would you like to understand the key factors that drive our property markets? These key drivers can be critical when selecting the right asset to fast-track your wealth creation journey. Considering the current environment, I would argue, it is even more important now than ever, as we head into an environment of low economic growth….
Dubbed the “Boomerang Generation” after moving back home during the pandemic, Australia’s adult children have started flying the coop once more. A new, nationally representative Finder survey of 1,015 Australians found that 34% of households had an adult kid living at home during 2020. Yet of those 343 Australians who either lived with their parents…
Have you considered what might bring this property cycle to an end? Our property markets have certainly shifted up a gear in the last few months and are swiftly gathering momentum. But as they say “all good things must come to an end” So, what will bring our rising property markets to a halt this…
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Employment surged in February with jobs growth of 88,7000 which were all full time jobs. This meant our unemployment levels fell much more than expected, down five tenths to 5.8% from 6.3% in January (revised down from 6.4%) The surge in employment now takes the level of employment back to pre-pandemic levels with both full-time…
Do you think it’s the right time to buy your next property? I know many property investors and homebuyers do. But the most recent Westpac Melbourne Institute Consumer Sentiment survey published last week showed upbeat general consumer sentiment with house prices expected to pick up further by consumers, yet it was not a wholehearted endorsement…
Is it time to put a regional town on your list of areas to consider investing in? There is certainly a lot of hype in the media along with the usual property commentators who have a regional bias. Many are suggesting investing in regional Australia because more of us are going to want to work…
There’s no doubt that the lending environment is different than it was a few years ago. The banks are in the business of lending money and they’re friendly than they have been for a long time now that they realise they don’t have to make provision for all those bad debts that were forecast only…
If you’re anything like many people, you probably think your ticket to financial security is just a pay rise away. “If only I earned more money,” you think, “then I could get ahead financially…” But do you remember the last time you got a wage increase? Where has that extra cash gone? We all have…
