Australian property prices rose 1.5% in the month of September despite the fact that many of us were still living in a Covid Cocoon. Housing values surged 20.3% higher in the past year, and even rose a massive 46 per cent in certain coveted school zones, pumped up by the Reserve Bank’s reassurances that its…
Are you planning to buy an investment property in 2021? Or maybe you’re hoping to buy a new home? Well, you’ll be in good company because 55.2% of the respondents of a recent survey believe now is a good time to invest in residential real estate. This is significantly fewer than the 74% keen to…
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Around Australia, weekend property auctions have become almost a national pastime. When we’re not lockdown people go along to have a sticky beak, to get an idea of the market, to fantasize about their dream homes or just to watch the street theatre unfolding before them. It’s a bit like watching buskers – you see…
Domain’s September Quarter 2021 House Price Report shows Australian house prices experiencing a historical rate of growth at 21.9 per cent. This is the fastest annual rate of growth on record with median house prices at almost $1 million nationally. Although house and unit price growth rate has been the fastest on record, quarterly growth…
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The pace of change has never been this fast, yet it will never be this slow again. They were the words of Justin Trudeau at the World Economic Forum even before the significant changes we have been experiencing in the last couple of years due to Covid. Moving forward a raft of demographic changes are…
There is no doubt that COVID-19 has change the way we are going to work in the future. Some of us will work more flexible hours rotating between the office and home; while others will continue to work remotely. But according to a recent Economic Insight by CommSec Covid-19 has resulted in more workers ‘exiting’…
Is the home really just a home anymore? Let’s be honest since COVID our houses have become homes, schools. offices and full services restaurants – especially during lockdown periods. But according to Domain we have even changed what we look for in a home? There has been a significant change in what people wanted in…
There’s a lot of talk about Australia’s property boom and how house prices are growing at the fastest rate in decades. However, according to Knight Frank’s Global House Price Index, Australia ranked only seventh out of 55 countries for annual price growth. While overall price growth in Australia was 16.4% over the 12 months to…
The trend of empty-nesters moving from large, luxury homes into large, luxury units has has been called “rightsizing” rather than downsizing. Apparently owning an expansive house with a white picket fence and garden with stretching green lawns is no longer the Australian dream retirees and many wealthy families Instead, they are rightsizing, or downsizing, for…
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The underlying theme of my podcast is property investment, success, and money, and today I will be talking a bit about success with Mark Creedon, founder of Business Accelerator Mastermind. But this isn’t a business show – you will find what we discuss today relevant no matter what you do for a living, and if…
