The government’s message sounds simple enough: make property investing less attractive, reduce the advantages investors supposedly have, tilt the playing field back toward first-home buyers, and more young Australians will finally be able to get a foot on the property ladder. On the surface, that sounds fair, and I can understand why many frustrated first-home…
Australia’s property markets have moved into a more complicated phase. At the beginning of the year, many investors were expecting 2026 to be another strong year for property, driven by tight supply, rising incomes, and the ongoing shortage of accommodation in many parts of the country. But as we move through the year, the story…
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Australia’s property markets are still rising, but the cracks are starting to show. Not the type of cracks that suggest a collapse, but the type that tell us the next stage of the cycle will reward careful, strategic investors and punish those chasing yesterday’s hot spots. According to Domain’s latest House Price Report, most capital…
Every few years property investors are told the game is over. A new tax. A new regulation. A new lending rule. A new reason to sit on the sidelines. And yet, after 50 years of investing through booms, busts, recessions, credit squeezes, banking reforms, political interference, rising interest rates, falling interest rates, a global financial…
They’re not the loudest generation and they don’t dominate social media conversations like Millennials, nor do they attract the political attention constantly aimed at Baby Boomers. In fact they rarely become the focus of think pieces or economic debates, and yet right now, Generation X sits in one of the most influential positions in Australia….
When it comes to building wealth through real estate, the fundamentals rarely change. Success isn’t about quick wins or timing the market – it’s about understanding timeless principles and mastering your behaviour. Fact is…You don’t need to outsmart the market – you just need to stop outsmarting yourself. Like you, I see headlines screaming that…
There’s been a noticeable shift in the property mood this week. The Reserve Bank has raised interest rates again, auction clearance rates have pulled back sharply, and the usual headlines are already trying to turn a week of weaker sentiment into a bigger story about the direction of our housing markets. But as I’ve said…
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Most investors spend their time waiting for the market to do the heavy lifting. But the more sophisticated investors don’t wait. They create their own capital growth. And in the current stage of the property cycle, that shift in thinking is becoming essential. If you’ve been following the property markets lately, you’ll know we’re in…
Every week I sit down with the latest property data and try to cut through the noise to find what actually matters for serious investors. And this week, there is more noise than usual. The RBA confirmed what most of us expected on May 5th, raising the cash rate by 25 basis points to 4.35%…
Property investors have somehow become Australia’s favourite scapegoat. The media paints us as greedy landlords. Politicians use us as an easy target for the housing crisis. Social media commentators accuse us of locking first-home buyers out of the market. In over 50 years of property involvement, I’ve never seen the “us versus them” divide so…
