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 buy a home but feeling uncertain about what lies ahead? Investors may not want to hear that prices are falling, but if you are a home buyer, that should be music to your ears. The next three to six months could present a rare opportunity and set you up for decades,…
If a picture paints a thousand words, then this collection of charts should do a pretty good job of painting the landscape as it affects our economy and our property markets. Each month the RBA summarises macroeconomic and financial market trends in Australia by providing a detailed chart pack. World Economy Australia’s economy doesn’t operate in…
Downsizing sounds simple enough: sell the family home, buy something smaller and free up some money for retirement. However, the financial outcome is not always as attractive as people expect. Stamp duty, selling expenses, moving costs and body corporate fees can consume a meaningful portion of the equity released. There is also an emotional side…
Most people don’t like to talk about money – they don’t like to talk about it with their spouses. They don’t like to talk about it with their kids and they don’t like to talk about it with their friends. Why is that? There are two driving factors that make money a taboo topic: #1…
Australia remains one of the wealthiest countries in the world, yet many Australians feel as though they are working harder simply to stand still. That feeling is now being confirmed by the economic data. Australia is heading towards its weakest decade of growth in living standards since the First World War, with GDP per person…
Talk to an agent who has just listed a property in a changing market and you’ll probably hear some version of the same thing: the phone is ringing differently from three months ago. Enquiry levels have changed, buyers are behaving differently at open homes, and offers are coming in at numbers that might have seemed…
SQM Research’s Weekly Asking Prices Index for the week ending 03 November 2026 showed mixed monthly price movements nationally, with combined asking prices edging lower over the month while annual growth held at 1.2%. Nationally, house asking prices eased 0.6% over the month, while unit asking prices increased 0.6%. Combined dwelling asking prices declined 0.4%…
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Every year, economists, property analysts and media commentators tell us where interest rates, house prices and rents are heading next. Some forecasts will be broadly correct, many will miss the mark, and almost none will anticipate the unexpected events that eventually shape our markets. Yet property investors continue searching for certainty, which is understandable when…
Imagine waking up tomorrow morning to discover that the median house price in your suburb had fallen by 5%. Would you assume your home was now worth 5% less? Would you worry that your investment portfolio had taken a hit, or perhaps conclude that housing was finally becoming more affordable? Well, I’d suggest you think…
You can earn more than you did five years ago and still feel as though you’re going backwards. For many Australian households, that’s become a familiar experience as everyday expenses, mortgage repayments and tax absorb more of their income, leaving less room to save, invest or enjoy life. After more than 50 years of investing,…
