Australia’s economy is rebounding from the recent Delta lockdowns with a robust recovery in labour demand as evidenced by a significant increase in ads for employment. Job advertisements as tracked by ANZ rose by 7.4% in November to a 13 year high of 222,093 available positions. Ads are up 52% on a year ago and…
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Do you want to learn some investment lessons from somebody who’s been in the property game for almost 50 years? You’d hope to get some great insights and perspectives, wouldn’t you? Well, that’s what you going to get in today’s show, but it’s a little bit different from normal. As you know I normally interview…
The way we live is changing, particularly in Sydney and Melbourne – which means the way we invest in the property needs to change, too. As our world adapts to a new, post-COVID reality, the preferences of property buyers are evolving. Prior to the onset of the pandemic, more and more Aussies were trading their…
Australia enjoys one of the highest life expectancies is in the world. And the good news is life expectancy in Australia continues to rise, with a baby boy expected to live to 81.2 years and a girl to 85.3 years, according to the latest figures released from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). “Babies born…
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Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines practiced every day, while failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day. If you think about it, it’s the accumulative weight of our disciplines and our judgments that leads us to either fortune or failure. So how can you become more successful in…
Saving for a house deposit could take on average almost 20 years in some suburbs, according to startling new research by Finder. Analysing property prices and incomes in each of Australia’s capital cities, and in Australia’s local government areas (LGAs), Finder determined where saving for a home is the most challenging. Unsurprisingly, Sydney was the…
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One way of getting more finance as a property investor is to get a higher valuation on your properties. So how do you go about this? How does a valuer evaluate your property – what do they like to see, what adds value, and what makes them nervous? These are some of the questions I’m…
Shoppers planning to spend big in the Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales are being warned to write out lists and set spending limits to avoid getting into trouble. New research out today from NAB estimates Australians will spend $5.5 billion from tomorrow through to Monday, with shoppers in NSW ($1.74 billion), Victoria ($1.45 billion)…
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What’s ahead for our property markets? If you’re like most property investors, you’d probably give your second garage to know what’s in store now that our markets seem to have moved to the next stage of the property cycle. Sure, our markets are still booming, but there seem to be more headwinds ahead. In light…
Australia’s cities as we know them are radically changing. Due to the ease and popularity of working from home, living in a city centre is slowly losing status. Of course, inner-city apartment living was a rising trend before Covid- 19 hit us. In fact for many apartments living in the inner-city sounded perfect, particularly for…
