![[Podcast] Where should you buy your next investment property at this stage of the property cycle?](https://cdn.propertyupdate.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/144-This-is-how-Australias-property-markets-are-different-2-270x200.jpg)
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…
![[Podcast] Here’s what 1,700 investors think is going to happen to property in 2022, with Brett Warren](https://cdn.propertyupdate.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/MY-podcast-317-Sentiment-survey-with-Brett-Warren-270x200.jpg)
Are you wondering what’s ahead in property for 2022? Maybe you’d like to know what other Australian property investors plan to do? Well, that’s exactly what we discuss in today’s show as we unpack the results of this year’s Property Investor Sentiment Survey. You’ll hear what 1,700 Australians feel about our current real estate markets…
![[Podcast] 24 Things everyone should know about investing and the economy, with Mark Creedon](https://cdn.propertyupdate.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/MY-podcast-business_economy_investing_MY-MC-01-270x200.jpg)
A number of years ago I started making a list of all the things one needed to know about investing. I wanted to capture the favorite quotes I have read and the lessons I have learned. This ended up being a more ambitious project than I envisaged, and it remains an ongoing one. So, in…
Read my lips – no RBA rate rise any time soon. Despite what the many financial journalists, economists, market analysts, and various click baiters have said over the last few weeks today Reserve Bank governor Philip Lowe made his position very clear – “the latest data and forecasts do not warrant an increase in the…
Despite booming property markets around Australia, there are some suburbs bucking the trend, with house prices falling by almost 13 per cent in some postcodes over the past year, according to Domain’s latest House Price Report. Not surprisingly, some of the biggest house price falls were in Melbourne where which was lockdown for longer than…
Over a third of buyers who purchased properties over the past five years borrowed more money than they planned to according to new research. But digging deeper into these numbers doesn’t seem to point to the concern of overcommitment or mortgage stress, especially since property value some risen so strongly. Compare the Market, surveyed 510 people…
![[Podcast] What every property investor needs to know about legally minimizing their tax with Stuart Wemyss](https://cdn.propertyupdate.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/MY-podcast-property-with-Stuart-Wemyss-270x200.jpg)
It’s often said there are two things that are guaranteed in life – death, and taxes. While taking care of your physical and mental health can lead to a longer, healthier life and stave of the death part, what can you do to legally minimize your tax? Since tax can be one of your biggest…
![[Podcast] The Big Picture – economic & property trends you must understand – November 2021 with Pete Wargent](https://cdn.propertyupdate.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Michael-Pete-Wargent-1-270x200.jpg)
Since Australia’s economy and our property markets don’t operate in isolation, I regularly have a look at the big picture, the macroeconomic factors affecting not just Australia’s economy, but the world economy to help us understand what’s ahead for us, and I do this in these Big Picture Podcasts with Pete Wargent. While regular listeners…
On the one hand, we keep hearing how unemployment is now around 4.6%, but on the other hand, we see all those vacant shops and hear of all those people who are out of work or not working as many hours as they want. So what is the real unemployment rate? The Roy Morgan research…
