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.
For many first-home buyers, getting onto the property ladder remains challenging, although the nature of that challenge has changed. Property prices are currently weaker in a number of markets, listings have increased and buyers generally have more time and negotiating power than they did during the boom. Yet affordability remains stretched. Years of rising property…
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Brisbane has done something this month that would have been unthinkable a year ago: it recorded the steepest monthly price fall of any Australian capital city. Values dropped 1.5% in September, edging past Sydney’s 1.4% decline and taking the market 5.4% below its May peak. That decline has effectively erased ten months of gains. Brisbane…
I’m not a huge fan of sticking to a routine just for the sake of it. But I’ve learned over the years how important daily habits are for long-term success and wealth creation. These habits and routines are like ballast. They hold you steady when stress threatens to de-rail you, and they give you the…
Following the exhilarating thrill of the strong property price growth we’ve experienced in many markets a few years ago, a new breed of self-proclaimed property investment “experts” has emerged. These individuals, having reaped substantial rewards from the boom, are now gloating about their seemingly impeccable judgment and expertise, offering to sell you the secret to…
Australia’s spring property market has failed to gain its usua momentum, with home sales down more than 20% compared with the same period last year, properties taking longer to sell and capital city vendors accepting their largest discounts in five years. Cotality’s October Housing Chart Pack shows an estimated 39,747 homes sold nationally in September,…
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Sydney’s correction has now cost the median homeowner roughly $112,000. September delivered another 1.4% fall, capping a September quarter in which values dropped 4.9% and leaving the market 8.6% below the record high set in February. Eight months ago Sydney was at a peak. It has given up more than eight percent of its value…
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What if the biggest financial mistakes people make aren’t about picking the wrong investment or getting the timing wrong – but about the things nobody ever sat them down and actually explained? I’ve spent over 50 years in property investment. I’ve read hundreds of books, attended countless courses, paid for mentors, and written nine books…
Australia is going to look very different in ten years’ time. We’ll have millions more people, an older population, smaller households and technologies that will change how we work and live. Our cities will evolve, new industries will emerge, and different governments will introduce policies that reshape our economy. But after more than five decades…
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For the first time in nearly a year, Melbourne has something that could cautiously be described as good news. Values fell 0.7% in September, the tenth consecutive monthly decline, but also the smallest monthly fall since March. That matters because Melbourne has spent this entire cycle as the market with no bottom in sight. Ten…
SQM Research released its latest data on residential property vacancy rates and advertised rents for September 2026. Australia’s national residential vacancy rate increased to 1.4% in September 2026, up from 1.3% in August. The total number of residential vacancies rose to 42,290 dwellings, compared with 41,039 the previous month. Compared with September 2025, when the national…
