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.
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…
Did you know that there have only ever been three times in our history as a nation when Australian property prices suffered significant falls? They are shown in these graphs: Each of these price falls was precipitated by an economic crisis — there was the Great Depression in the thirties, the sixties Credit Squeeze and the…
Some experts tell us that property price booms are driven by low unemployment, high population increases and economic growth. They assure us that these conditions create buyer confidence which leads to increased demand for housing and price growth. History, however shows us that the housing market has sometimes performed at its best when unemployment…
Is there a product pushing culture in the financial services industry? The current sessions of the Royal Commission into Misconduct in the Banking, Superannuation and Financial Services Industry are likely to uncover what most property investors have long suspected – that there is a product pushing sales culture within the financial planning industry which encourages…
We can expect a great deal of hype about the effect of the Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast housing market. But to understand the longer lasting effects that such international events have on local property markets we need look no further than the Sydney 2000 experience. The site of the Olympic Games at Homebush…
Many experts and analysts are worried about the apparent oversupply of units in Sydney and Melbourne, but I predict that we are actually heading for an acute shortage of unit rental stock in those cities. Housing obeys the same laws of supply and demand as other commodities and while rental supply is about to decline,…
As Bitcoin prices boom, new waves of experts are offering us their recently discovered expertise to educate us from being Crypto-confused to Crypto-savvy. They claim that they’ll teach us how to make Bitcoin our new income stream, urging us to attend their webinars, free events, workshops and Bitcoin Bootcamps. Yet, only a year ago many…
Some investors claim that holding a balanced property investment portfolio is the key to success, believing that you should never keep all your eggs in one basket. This leads to the obvious question – what constitutes a ‘balanced’ portfolio? The logic of spreading the risk by balancing or diversifying your properties is that if the…
Housing is considered safe because it’s not a “take it or leave it” type of investment like shares or savings. Whether or not we are property investors, we all need a place to call home and private land ownership satisfies our need for security. Our right to buy or sell property is given to us…
