Michael has been once again voted Australia’s leading property investment advisor by the readers of ‘Your Investment Property Magazine’, but he’s not a theorist… He has been successfully investing in property since 1971 and is a leading property commentator and Australia’s most widely read property investment blogger. Join over 115,000 others who get their updates from Michael and his group of expert guest bloggers and benefit from their perspective.
Are you looking to build greater wealth but unsure which investment vehicle is right for you? When it comes to building wealth, few debates are as enduring as property versus shares. Recently, I sat down for a live conversation with Louise Bedford – one of Australia’s most respected trading educators, a bestselling author of six…
Australia is entering the largest intergenerational wealth transfer in its history, yet many families are preparing for it with little more than a signed will and a vague promise that everything will work itself out. And that is a risky assumption because wealth rarely moves neatly from one generation to the next, particularly when the…
Across Australia, thousands of people are waiting to find out if their homes will be built, after several separate construction company collapses. By far the biggest of those recent collapses has been the Bathla Group, a Sydney developer that’s been one of Australia’s largest affordable home builders. Owing about A$3.4 billion to private lenders, Bathla’s…
There are several mistakes that I regularly see property investors make. From emotional investing to failing to mitigate risk or even failing to get the right advice, many property investment mistakes cost a lot of money, time, and stress and can even hijack your investment success. Having helped hundreds of property investors with their property…
Something interesting is happening in Australia’s property market, with auction clearance rates only telling part of the story. Auctions work best when several motivated buyers compete for the same property, creating urgency and pushing prices higher. But as buyer demand has softened in 2026, that competition has become harder to generate. New Domain research shows…
You may have spent decades building your superannuation, carefully chosen who should inherit your assets and even prepared a legally valid will. Yet when you die, your super could still be distributed differently from the way you intended. That is the uncomfortable message from new research suggesting approximately 15.7 million Australians do not have a…
Every now and then, a set of statistics comes along that appears to be about one thing, but actually tells us something much bigger. The latest Australian Bureau of Statistics figures on marriages and divorces might seem relevant only to couples planning a wedding or navigating a separation. But if you look beyond the headline…
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What if the greatest threat to your property investment success isn’t choosing the wrong suburb, paying too much or getting your timing wrong? What if it’s your inability to remain disciplined when the headlines become frightening, the forecasts turn gloomy and everyone around you starts questioning whether property is still a good investment? Over the…
If you could step back into Australia in 1981, you would recognise the country, but much of everyday life would feel surprisingly foreign. Australia was younger, smaller, less diverse and more traditional. Families were larger, manufacturing played a much bigger role in employment, overseas travel was a luxury, and the typical worker was more likely…
There is a dangerous tendency in Australia’s housing debate to assume that anything that makes life harder for property investors must automatically make life easier for first-home buyers and tenants. It’s a good political argument that sounds appealing, particularly when housing affordability is such an emotional issue, but housing markets don’t work in isolation. Investors,…
