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It was a tale of 2 cities with regards to auction results this weekend, as it has been for the last few weeks. Sydney delivered a solid preliminary auction clearance rates of 61.5%, a little lower than last week. But unfortunately vendors who had planned to sell their properties in Melbourne this weekend had the…
Trying to get your head around Capital Gains Tax (CGT) can sometimes be like attempting to learn a new language. You think you’re doing alright with it and then someone from that country starts talking to you thinking you’re a local and you end up quite confused and no doubt a little embarrassed. Of course,…
Success isn’t genetic. And it’s not something that simply ‘happens’ to lucky people. Instead, it’s a result of the everyday habits that give successful people the ability to achieve greatness. Put it this way: they didn’t become successful from binge-watching Netflix on the sofa all weekend. Habits that underpin success (no matter what your definition…
One of the biggest mistakes that property investors can make is relying on the wrong experts. One expert is urging you to invest in central Queensland, another says buy in Melbourne, still another tells you that Port Hedland is about to boom again, while another urges you that Perth is set to go gang busters…
In property investing circles it’s often said that you make the money on the deal when you buy. Most people think this means that if you buy a property “under market value”, then it’s considered that you made a profit on to the way into the deal, keeping you one step ahead of the game. Now…
Do you enjoy your coffee? I know I do, so I was pleased to read that moderate coffee consumption is linked to both mental and physical health. A study published in The British Medical Journal (Poole et al., 2017) shows that moderate coffee intake reduced depression risk and lower levels of Parkinson’s and dementia. I knew I was drinking…
Not every Australian housing market has performed the same way since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. The latest CoreLogic Home Value Index results revealed that since March, Melbourne property values fell 3.5%. Meanwhile, the ACT dwelling market reached a record high. From June to July, the rate of decline eased across Perth from -1.1%…
There are more interesting articles, commentaries and analyst reports on the Web every week than anyone could read in a month. Each Saturday morning I like to share some of the ones I’ve read during the week. The weekend will be over before you know it, so enjoy some interesting reading. First-home buyers, investors and…
It’s an irony that Melbourne, which has won the mantle of the world’s “most liveable city” more times than any other city in the last decade, has now gone into Victoria Stage 4 lockdown. So what does this mean for the Melbourne property market? This information current as at Friday 7th August and will be…
COVID-19 and the growing recession concentrated in the services sector will not just increase social inequality, but accelerate the growing spatial divide in our cities. As our new research report shows, the pandemic’s impacts reinforce the ongoing trend towards the suburbanisation of inequality. There are two reasons for this. First, the industries vulnerable to the…
