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.
Would you like a Cash Machine? Imagine flicking a switch in the morning and having it churn out money all day while you get on with the things you love doing. Building a cash machine gives you the freedom to take your hands off the wheel, live comfortably, and pass wealth on to the next…
Over the past two decades, I’ve advised hundreds of property investors at every stage of their wealth journey. Some were purchasing their first investment property, while others already had substantial portfolios and were seeking a clearer strategy to move to the next level. I’ve also worked with investors who owned several properties but found that…
SQM Research released its August 2026 residential vacancy rate data together with its lat-est advertised rents data. Australia’s national residential vacancy rate held at 1.3% in August 2026, unchanged from July, with 41,039 residential vacancies recorded. Against August 2025 the picture is less static: vacan-cies are up by around 3,300 dwellings (8.7%) and the national…
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Perth has now been falling for four consecutive months. August delivered a further 0.8% decline, leaving the market 3.2% below its April peak and taking $33,370 off the median dwelling value since the turn began. For a market that spent five years as the most spectacular performer in the country, that is a strange sentence…
Australia’s current housing downturn has ended the recent run of record resale results, with the share of profitable sales falling from a 21-year high and the median gain retreating from its March peak. Cotality’s latest Pain & Gain report analysed more than 94,000 residential resales in the June quarter, finding 95.4% delivered a nominal profit,…
Buying a property can be an exciting experience, and it is easy for emotions to take over when you find a home or investment that seems to tick all the right boxes. However, successful property investment should be approached differently from buying a home to live in because investors need to remain objective and make…
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Brisbane fell 1% in August — its third consecutive monthly decline, taking values 2.7% lower across the winter. But the number that reframes Brisbane’s position most sharply is a supply figure: advertised stock is now 51% higher than it was a year ago. Half again as many properties on the market as twelve months ago….
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Smart investors still make expensive mistakes, and surprisingly often, the problem begins inside their own heads. We like to believe that our investment decisions are based on facts, careful analysis and rational judgment. Yet cognitive biases quietly shape which facts we notice, which risks we dismiss and which stories we choose to believe. They encourage…
For generations, Australians have responded to housing affordability pressures in a predictable way – when the home they wanted became too expensive, they moved further from the city. But something important is changing. Australia’s affordability problem has become so entrenched that many buyers are making a different compromise. Rather than simply changing where they live, they…
For the last 20 years, one of the defining stories of Australian housing has been the rise of the apartment. Look at the skylines of Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane and you can see the evidence everywhere. Cranes filled our CBDs, high-rise towers appeared around transport hubs and former industrial precincts were transformed into dense residential…
