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.
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…
We often talk about the things that we learn in business, the lessons that we get, and the people we get the lessons from. That got me thinking just the other day about how I also think there are some lessons that we can learn not from people, but in fact, from animals. It got…
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July has delivered the clearest evidence yet that Australia’s property market has changed direction, but the headline figures only tell part of the story. Capital city house prices fell by 1.5 per cent over the month, the sharpest national decline since August 2022, while Sydney recorded a particularly significant fall of 2.7 per cent. Melbourne…
Australian home prices fell for the fourth straight month in July, with capital cities driving the decline, according to the latest Home Price Index from PropTrack. Data shows that the median price of an Australian home fell by 0.3% in July to reach $894,000. Houses were down 0.4% to $989,000, while units were down 0.2%…
For decades, home ownership has represented much more than having a roof over your head. For many Australians, buying property has been the cornerstone of financial security, a way to create choices during retirement, and perhaps most importantly, an opportunity to leave something meaningful for the next generation. That belief has shaped the financial decisions…
