Sydney real estate agents who deliberately underquote property prices will find themselves under scrutiny as NSW Fair Trading cracks down hard on dishonest real estate agents. Inspectors will attend auctions, open houses, and agencies across the city on the hunt for agents who are deliberately promoting a property for lower than its estimated value. Those…
Articles by Robert Chandra
Robert Chandra is a Property Strategist at Metropole and has an intrinsic understanding of property markets backed by many years of real estate experience. This coupled with several degrees gives him a holistic perspective with which he can diagnose clients’ circumstances and goals and formulate strategies to bridge the gap.
As the saying goes, you can’t buy true happiness. But it turns out there is a particular sum of money that would help. Building on research originally conducted by US University Purdue, which found the price tag for happiness in the United States stands at $135,500, a new study by investment education platform Expensivity then…
We know that we are in the beginning stages of a property boom at present. But regular readers would recognise that property investment is a long-term game and would be pleased to know that Australian housing prices have soared by more than 500% over the past 25 years but while capital values have grown, yields…
Did you know that you have many options when it comes to deciding the entity that should own your new property? Most property buyers, even seasoned investors, default to simply buying the property in their own name, but this is not always the best and most financially savvy choice. The legally recognised owner of a…
So after a few years of hard work, you’ve got a neat little fund set up, and you know that one of the best long-term ways to invest your money is to put it in property. You’ve heard the success stories of million-dollar portfolios, of investors who have managed to retire early on high-growth properties…
The coronavirus pandemic has pushed more Australians to use their phones and smartwatches for purchases. New data from financial broker firm Savvy shows that 46.5% of respondents have a digital wallet, and it’s only a matter of time before the take-up is as ubiquitous as smartphones themselves. The survey polled 1,003 Australians on their daily…
Despite the global hardships of the COVID-19 pandemic, the world’s ultra-high net worth (UHNW) population increased by 2.4% in 2020, reaching an all-time high of 521,653. In the following chart Visual Capitalist used data from The Wealth Report 2021 by Knight Frank to list the 20 countries with the most UHNW individuals. And as you can…
Identity theft is costing Australians billions of dollars a year according to a recent analysis by Finder. Finder’s analysis of data released by the Australian Institute of Criminology (AIC) has revealed that the cost of identity crime in Australia reached a staggering $3.1 billion in 2019, a substantial 17% increase from 2016. Approximately one in…
How do you choose an investment grade property? One that will outperform the averages and deliver wealth producing rates of return? Well…you probably know by now that property investment is part science and part art. The art component is the market intelligence that comes from decades of experience of buying and investing on the ground….
Apparently only half of Australians who find themselves buried under out of control credit card debt would be able to dig themselves out. A recent Finder survey of 825 credit card holders revealed where Aussies would turn if they couldn’t make the minimum repayment on their card. The research found that just half (51%) of…