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.
Covid. An energy crisis. Wars in Ukraine and the Middle East. Surging interest rates. Inflation. Changing rental regulations. A federal budget that spooked half the investor community. At some point in the last few years, every single one of those events gave a perfectly rational investor a perfectly rational excuse to sit on their hands…
SQM Research’s Weekly Asking Prices Index for the week ending 4 August 2026 showed a softer month for asking prices across most capital cities, reflecting the increased level of supply now available to buyers. Capital asking prices declined 1.5% for houses, while unit prices fell 0.2%. Combined dwelling asking prices eased 1.2% over the month…
Do you want your toilet to reliably flush, whether you’re at home or on holiday anywhere in Australia? Want to help shape decisions on where new schools get built? Or want people experiencing homelessness to get better services than they do now? Australian households are now starting to receive instructions in their letterboxes, explaining how…
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Negative gearing on established homes has just been abolished. The capital gains tax discount you’ve relied on for twenty years has been rewritten. And somewhere between the government’s press conference and the Treasury modelling, a trillion dollars in debt got added to the tab for a generation that hasn’t even been asked if they’re willing…
Australia’s housing shortage is usually blamed on population growth, sluggish construction, planning delays, labour shortages and the rising cost of building new homes. All of these factors matter, but another powerful force is sitting quietly in the background. Australia has around 4.5 million baby boomers, aged between 62 and 80, and many remain in the…
“What do you want your retirement to look like?” Most people pause when I ask that. Then they give vague answers: I want to travel more” or “spend time with the grandkids.” Nice ideas. But vague answers don’t lead to meaningful action. At Metropole, we’ve learned that the best way to help our clients build…
Most Australians imagine scams arriving as suspicious emails from strangers or obvious phishing attempts riddled with spelling mistakes. The reality is much more sophisticated. Today’s scammers are increasingly inserting themselves into the moments when we’re making important decisions, whether that’s buying a property, applying for a job, lodging a tax return or making a major…
Australia’s property downturn gathered sharp momentum in July, with Cotality’s national Home Value Index (HVI) falling 0.7% – the largest single -month decline since December 2022. The downturn is no longer confined to Sydney and Melbourne, as cumulative demand -side pressures pulled previously resilient mid -sized capitals into negative territory. Every month, investors, homeowners, and…
For years, Australian homeowners have enjoyed a substantial equity dividend as rising property values quietly built wealth in the background. While the headlines focused on interest rates, affordability pressures and predictions of a downturn, millions of homeowners benefited from holding property through several market cycles. Domain’s latest Profit and Loss Report suggests this run may…
Could Australia’s inflation problem be more stubborn than the latest headline figure suggests, and does that leave the door open for another interest rate rise? Annual headline inflation eased from 4 per cent to 3.8 per cent in June, but the measure the Reserve Bank watches more closely remained stuck at 3.6 per cent, well…
