We all love a good mystery, but don’t usually expect to find one lurking in our property markets. What is the mystery all about? The riddle is about the number of listings, or rather the lack of them in our largest property markets. Listings are properties that are for sale, and when buyer demand falls,…
Many commentators hope that property market prices are on the rise again, but there’s a much more likely prospect in store for property investors, because rents are about to start rising dramatically. Property investors have two strings to our bow – cash flow and growth, and the recent media focus on prices has pushed cash…
We tend to think of ghost towns as places where all the residents have long since packed up and gone, but in China some huge cities have recently been completed – built entirely on the opposite premise, that people will arrive. One such new ghost city is Kangbashi, located on the barren steppes of Inner…
Will we have a mini boom later this year if Labor wins the election, as investors rush to buy established properties before the new tax rules take effect? Many commentators are predicting that investors will rush to buy established properties before the negative gearing and capital gains tax rules are changed if Labor wins the…
If it’s true that the best time to buy is at the bottom, then now might be a good time to buy Crypto currencies, especially Bitcoin, which has undergone a dramatic plunge in value over the last year. But will crypto prices fall further? Crypto currencies have lost more than $400 billion off their peak…