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.
If you think Australia’s property market has “settled down”… I’d challenge that. Sure, prices have kept rising in many places, but that’s not the whole story. What’s happening now is more interesting, and more important if you’re an investor, because the market isn’t moving as one. Here’s what a lot of investors get wrong at…
Australia isn’t just changing. It’s quietly flipping the script on how we live, work, connect and build wealth. On paper, we’re richer than we’ve ever been. Wages, household balance sheets and lifetime asset values have climbed impressively over the past two decades. But dig past the headlines, and a different story emerges, one that most…
National rental vacancy rates have fallen off a cliff since Covid. They dropped from the “normal” 2% to 3% range in the late 2010s to barely 1% since 2021. That’s as tight as I’ve ever seen in the data – and as the charts show, there’s been no bounce back across most major urban areas…
I spent many years studying the rich and the poor in my Rich Habits Study and found that there were twelve problems almost everyone has to contend with in life: Health Problems Financial Problems Family Problems Neighbour Problems Home Repair Problems Car Problems Addiction Problems Job Problems Relationship Problems Death or Disability Problems Time Management…
They’re pragmatic, financially savvy, and quietly sitting on some of the biggest property gains in the nation. Generation X – those born between 1965 and 1980 – have become the quiet achievers of Australian real estate. After decades of focusing on work, family, and stability, Gen X now finds itself in a position of significant…
Everyone wants the reward, yet very few are willing to pay the price. Not because they are lazy or weak, but because no one ever sat them down and explained a simple truth: Everything you want in life has a cost of entry. Not a penalty. Not a punishment. A price. The ticket you must…
When you are doing something you like or love, time seems to fly by. They call it the State of Flow. And whenever you find yourself in a State of Flow, think long and hard about what you are/were doing while in that State of Flow. Why? Because that State of Flow activity is very…
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Everywhere you look, people are talking about the Brisbane property market. The Olympics are coming, property prices have surged, and there’s this growing belief that Brisbane is the place to be for investors right now. In fact, it’s not just Brisbane, but a whole swag of new and let me call them inexperienced buyers agents…
Australia is getting older, richer, and, perhaps most surprisingly, lonelier. At first glance, that sounds contradictory. We’re living longer, the average household wealth has grown, and our economy continues to attract global talent. But beneath the surface, there are profound demographic and social shifts quietly reshaping our housing markets, our workforce, and the way we…
Have you noticed how property investors have become a convenient target lately? We’re being painted as greedy and unethical, and we’re even being blamed for locking first-home buyers out of the market. You may have heard it too: “Is it really fair for you to own multiple properties?” “Aren’t you just taking advantage of the…
