When you’re raising a family, your needs evolve and what you want out of a home is quite different from the things you held dear previously. Living in an area with a local coffee shop where the barista knows your name might still rank towards the top of your list. But other property features, such…
Articles by Kate Forbes
Kate Forbes is the National Director of Property Strategy at Metropole. She has 22 years of investment experience in financial markets on two continents, is qualified in multiple disciplines, and is also a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA).
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Every property investor is looking for the secret to success, aren’t they? Some spend years searching for a mythical investment strategy that will be their path to untold riches. Alas, while they are on their unhelpful hunt, they miss golden opportunities that could have helped them achieve their financial goals and dreams much earlier. One…
I’ve said it before many times, and it bears repeating once more: as a property investor, you will pay for your education. You’ll either pay for it by actively seeking to educate yourself, by investing in courses, seminars, and mentoring programs that help you grow your wealth. Or you’ll pay for it by making costly…
There are around 9 million Australians (which accounts for 35% of the population) living in suburbs classified as ‘childcare deserts’, where children outnumber childcare spaces by more than 3-to-1. A new report, published by the Mitchell Institute and Victoria University, maps out the shortage of childcare services across every neighbourhood in the country and compares…
Everyone likes cash, don’t they? While most of us don’t have much of it in our wallets anymore because it’s been replaced by a bank card, that doesn’t mean that we don’t spend much of our lives wanting more of the stuff. Whether it’s through a salary or starting a business, most Australians would like…
For the first time in 11 years, the RBA increased rates and we’re still expecting them to increase sharply over the rest of 2022. We already know that there’s a slowdown in-home price growth in part due to affordability issues, concerns with overseas geopolitical tensions, an upcoming election, and rising inflation, but no doubt exacerbated…
While Australia’s property market started strongly in 2022, concern about an increasing cash rate, rising inflation, overseas geopolitical issues and an ongoing federal election campaign saw property price growth stall across our capital cities over the last few months. In April, prices across the country increased at their slowest monthly pace since May 2020, the…
If you’re thinking you can invest in cash flow to grow your wealth, I have news for you. It never has been the case, but especially in 2022 in the current investment environment, chasing cash flow might not be the most financially rewarding decision. Here’s why – and what you should do instead. What are…
While the property pessimists out there will give many incorrect reasons why we can expect an impending property market crash, there is one thing that continues to underpin and strengthen property values – the number of first home buyers entering the market. Thanks to the latest government initiative to help first home buyers step on…
Inflation expectations are simply the rate at which people—consumers, businesses, investors—expect prices to rise in the future. They matter because actual inflation depends, in part, on what we expect it to be. If everyone expects prices to rise, say, 5 percent over the next year, businesses will want to raise prices by (at least) 5…