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 the world of property investment, a troubling phenomenon often rears its head: the Dunning-Kruger Effect. You see.. when it comes to money, seemingly rational people don’t always act rationally. We are subject to cognitive biases. Let me explain… In 1999, psychologists David Dunning and Justin Kruger published research finding that people with limited knowledge…
Inflation is making a comeback. Just when many Australians were starting to breathe a little easier, the latest data suggests the fight against inflation isn’t over yet. And if inflation is rising again, the big question is… what does that mean for interest rates? And more importantly, what does it mean for our housing markets?…
For decades, Australia’s housing debate has obsessed over the usual headline acts: soaring migration, slow approvals, rising costs, NIMBYism, and a construction sector that can’t catch a break. All true. All important. But beneath all that noise sits one of the quietest, most powerful forces reshaping housing demand – the surge in single-person households. Living…
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Interest rates are rising again. Inflation isn’t backing off. Sydney and Melbourne’s property markets are a little wobbly. And yet… National house prices are up more than 10% over the past year, and some capitals are still delivering boom-time results. So what’s really going on in Australia’s property markets right now? That’s what I discussed…
National home price growth picked up in February, consistent with the seasonal lift in housing market activity after the holidays, according to PropTrack. The report shows that prices lifted across every capital city, while nationally values are now 9.1% higher than a year ago. The national increase marks the fastest annual pace of growth since…
I am often asked what it would take for housing values to fall across Australia in a meaningful and sustained way. My short answer is always the same. Australian dwelling values fall only when borrowing power contracts hard enough, and for long enough, to seriously undermine demand. At its core, this is not a story…
Canberra’s residential property market is structurally distinct within Australia. Its clear segmentation, policy-driven income base, constrained supply, and unique tax framework create a niche market characterised by low volatility, regime-driven behaviour, and counter-cyclical tendencies. Unlike Melbourne’s credit-sensitive apartment market or Sydney’s globally priced scarcity model, Canberra responds primarily to fiscal and policy conditions rather than…
Rental shortages in Victoria and Western Australia are escalating, but while the Vic govt is using sticks to force investors and developers into providing more rental stock, the WA govt is using carrots to motivate and encourage them to do the same. Victoria and Western Australia have the fastest population growth rates of all States,…
Two months into 2026, and we have seen a clear divergence in housing trends, with Sydney and Melbourne values flatlining while the mid-sized capitals continue to record a solid rate of gain at more than 1% month on month growth. Perth is showing the strongest trend, with home values jumping 2.3% in February, adding more…
What if I told you the next 20 years will pass much faster than you think? And when they do, you’ll either be financially free or still wondering why others got there and you didn’t. The truth is that time is the most valuable, non-renewable asset we have. Yet too many Australians waste it reacting…
