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.
When it comes to building wealth through real estate, the fundamentals rarely change. Success isn’t about quick wins or timing the market – it’s about understanding timeless principles and mastering your behaviour. Fact is…You don’t need to outsmart the market – you just need to stop outsmarting yourself. Like you, I see headlines screaming that…
There’s been a noticeable shift in the property mood this week. The Reserve Bank has raised interest rates again, auction clearance rates have pulled back sharply, and the usual headlines are already trying to turn a week of weaker sentiment into a bigger story about the direction of our housing markets. But as I’ve said…
Most people say they want better results in life. Better finances. Better investments. Better opportunities. But very few people actually measure the things that create those results. And as one of my early mentors, Jim Rohn, taught me many years ago, if you don’t measure something, you can’t improve it. In fact, Jim boiled it…
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Most investors spend their time waiting for the market to do the heavy lifting. But the more sophisticated investors don’t wait. They create their own capital growth. And in the current stage of the property cycle, that shift in thinking is becoming essential. If you’ve been following the property markets lately, you’ll know we’re in…
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. And this week, there is more noise than usual. The RBA confirmed what most of us expected on May 5th, raising the cash rate by 25 basis points to 4.35%…
For much of the last two years Australia’s property markets have defied expectations. Despite higher interest rates, affordability pressures, and cost-of-living concerns, property values in many parts of the country continued to push higher as strong population growth, tight rental markets, and limited housing supply kept prices resilient. But the landscape is beginning to change….
Property investors have somehow become Australia’s favourite scapegoat. The media paints us as greedy landlords. Politicians use us as an easy target for the housing crisis. Social media commentators accuse us of locking first-home buyers out of the market. In over 50 years of property involvement, I’ve never seen the “us versus them” divide so…
In a world obsessed with becoming rich, true prosperity lies in “time wealth” – the freedom to control how you spend your time, unburdened by employer or work obligations that make you feel enslaved. Creating Time Wealth, however, requires an upfront investment of your time in creating an asset that can be monetized, generating a…
For years, we’ve been told that property investors are the big winners when it comes to tax breaks. I’m sure you’ve heard the narrative: investors get negative gearing, capital gains tax discounts and all sorts of incentives that ordinary Australians don’t receive. But when you step back and look at the numbers objectively, that story…
There is no doubt that our housing markets are facing challenges from all directions, but clearly, they have remained resilient. To better understand what’s happening, this monthly collection of charts from Cotality (formerly CoreLogic) paints an interesting picture. Cotality’s latest Housing Chart Pack shows conditions are easing as borrowing capacity tightens, with analysis of the Home Value…
