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.
There’s something many property investors completely overlook when trying to figure out where the market is heading. It’s not interest rates. It’s not auction clearance rates. It’s jobs – and right now, the Australian employment market is sending a very clear signal that the property market has more underlying support than most people realise. So…
Let me ask you something that most people avoid thinking about. If the next 20 years of your life look almost identical to the last 20, would that genuinely excite you? Or would it quietly disappoint you? Most of the successful investors and business owners I speak with aren’t struggling. In fact, they’re doing very…
Have you ever walked out of a property inspection feeling like you weren’t getting the full story? Or perhaps you’ve wondered why an agent treats every buyer with a healthy dose of scepticism? In real estate, there’s an old saying that gets thrown around far too easily: “buyers are liars and sellers are swindlers.” It’s…
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Everyone wants to pay less tax. But the real question isn’t just how to save tax this year. It’s about how to structure your wealth so you can grow it, protect it, and eventually pass it on without creating unnecessary tax burdens, risks, or family chaos. In today’s Wealth Retreat Conversations episode, the series we’re…
Hindsight is a wonderful thing, isn’t it? Let me ask you a question… With the benefit of hindsight and knowing what you know now if you had the opportunity to do so, would you have bought an investment property 46 years ago? I bet your answer would be yes realising that the median property price…
Every week I sit down with the latest property data and try to cut through the noise to find what actually matters for serious investors. Right now, there’s quite a bit of noise swirling around – global uncertainty off the back of trade tensions and Middle East conflict, oil prices still elevated, inflation sitting stubbornly…
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Adelaide home values rose by 1.2% in March, maintaining a steady pace of gains as the city continues to perform well above the broader capital city average. Through the first quarter of the year, dwelling values increased by 3.6%, pushing the median home value to $937,000. This long-running expansion has seen Adelaide property values soar…
We’re about to face one of the biggest financial shifts in Australian history, and it won’t come from the stock market, government policy, or even migration. Instead, it will come quietly, gradually and inevitably as Baby Boomers pass on their wealth to younger generations. This so-called “inheritance tsunami” will see close to $5 trillion transferred…
Have you noticed? There will always be someone telling you not to invest in property. But that’s nothing new. Sure we have headwinds that our housing markets are going to contend with and many Negative Nellies are telling us that the property market is going to Slump because of rising interest rates, while others are concerned…
Here’s the uncomfortable truth many Australians are starting to realise – you can work harder than ever, do everything “right”, yet still fall behind financially. It’s not due to buying too many lattes or smashed avocado sandwiches, and it’s certainly not due to a lack of ambition. It’s because the rules of money quietly changed…
