With so much media attention centred on housing demand and prices, here’s a look at the supply side to see what the post-pandemic market holds for property developers and the supply of property. Developers are often blamed for building unsightly, even unsafe high-density apartments and encouraging speculative investment, yet housing development has been the means…
Articles by John Lindeman
John Lindeman has well over a decade of experience researching the nature and dynamics of various types of assets at major data analysts and is a leading property market researcher, author and commentator. For more information visit Lindeman Reports.
Some experts are calling the new simplified lending rules a huge economic game changer which will deliver benefits for everyone, but I wonder if they could be more spin than win. It sounds fantastic in theory – a debt led recovery, with relaxed lending restrictions freeing up huge amounts of credit and supercharging our economy…
There’s an elephant that’s about to make its presence felt in the property market and it’s a huge potential game-changer. It won’t be deterred by rising unemployment, housing finance restrictions, buyer confidence or economic downturns. It has the power to radically alter housing prices and rents, and it’s about to be unleashed on our property…
Many people are becoming increasingly dismayed and disillusioned with the impact that the pandemic is having on their personal, social and financial circumstances. While some are looking for any opportunities that the new normal is presenting, others are taking action – they’re moving. More and more people are making plans to move as soon as…
Which suburbs are at low risk and which areas could even thrive despite the current environment of uncertainty. The property market is unlike other assets such as commodities, bonds or shares, because around sixty per cent of our dwellings are owner occupied. Their owners have no interest in cash flow, leveraging, depreciation, rental yields, capital…
One of the biggest mistakes that property investors can make is relying on the wrong experts. One expert is urging you to invest in central Queensland, another says buy in Melbourne, still another tells you that Port Hedland is about to boom again, while another urges you that Perth is set to go gang busters…
As each new set of property data is released, it becomes more obvious that some housing markets will be in for a rough ride. Interestingly, many experts fail to grasp the reasons why property prices rise quickly during booms but slide backwards slowly during downturns. Sales increase quickly when markets are hot, and prices shoot…
Why are some property markets likely to buck the downward trend and where can you find them? As the recession deepens, price and rent falls are emerging in inner urban unit markets due to the collapse of short term rental demand. In addition, aspiring first home buyers and investors are finding it more difficult to…
In these unprecedented times, if there is one certainty that we can hold on to, it is that growth will return to our property markets. As the restrictions on movement and travel are eased, some areas will experience greater demand for accommodation than others, and they hold the key to finding post COVID boom towns….
Commentators are referring to the current crisis as a black swan event, which is something that is totally unexpected and has a major impact. Does the property market have its own black swans? As our European forebears ventured out into other continents such as Asia, Africa and then finally the Americas, all the swans they…