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.
In today’s evolving property market, where investors can no longer rely solely on strong capital growth, many are exploring property development as a way to manufacture equity and accelerate their wealth-building journey. And the recent federal government tax changes have made this an even more popular path for serious property investors. One of the most-read…
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For twenty years, Australia’s economy has been growing. Company profits have gone up, dividends have gone up, and property values have gone up. But what if I told you that most of that growth had almost nothing to do with us getting smarter, more efficient, or more productive? What if it was really just more…
Australia’s property markets are continuing to soften, and the spring selling season has done little to restore buyer confidence, with falling prices, weaker auction clearance rates and longer selling times pointing to a market where buyers are increasingly in control. To help keep you up-to-date with all that’s happening, below is my updated weekly analysis…
Here’s something that should concern every parent and grandparent in Australia. If you were born in the late 1940s, there was a 54% chance you owned a home by your late twenties. If you were born in the early 1990s, that figure has fallen to 36%. Now that’s a significant change in how wealth gets…
Every year, one of Australia’s biggest longitudinal surveys provides a range of insights on how the nation is changing. The Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey, provides unique insights into the lives of Australians, and collects rich data on income, employment, health and wellbeing. HILDA has been following the same people every…
Housing has a new competitor. Australia’s rapidly expanding data-centre industry is attracting billions of dollars, demanding substantial electricity and water capacity, and drawing upon many of the same engineers, consultants, contractors and financiers needed to deliver new communities. The issue is not whether Australia should build data centres. It is whether governments are coordinating the…
If someone had sat you down in January 2020 and described what the next six and a half years would bring, I doubt you would have bought another property. A global pandemic, closed borders, the fastest rate hiking cycle in a generation, a war in Europe, bank collapses overseas, a conflict that closed the Strait…
Australia will have almost 40 million people by 2066, our economy will be more than twice as large and average real incomes will be considerably higher. Yet beneath those reassuring headline numbers, Treasury’s latest Intergenerational Report describes a country that is growing more slowly, ageing rapidly and relying heavily on migration, productivity and housing policy…
The slingshot effect is about to occur and that it has the potential to deliver strong price growth in many areas where prices are falling right now. This is how it works. We all know that housing demand increases in line with population growth, but doesn’t translate into price growth during times of uncertainty or…
There are moments in life when a single sentence hits you so hard it rearranges your thinking. Not a long seminar. Not a complex strategy. Just one line that quietly exposes the flaw in how you’ve been operating. For me, that moment came when I read the following words from one of my early mentors,…
