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The debate around negative gearing is once again heating up, with a particular political party of a Green persuasion arguing that abolishing it could be the magic bullet to solve Australia’s housing affordability crisis and housing shortage. “Just slug greedy, rich property investors by reforming negative gearing and capital gains tax and it won’t increase…
Everyone has experienced an unexpected financial emergency. And amid the current cost-of-living crisis, when the cost of groceries, utilities and mortgage repayment bills are high enough already, an added out-of-the-blue expense could be enough to send your finances into a tailspin. From a broken window to an unexpected medical bill or even a loss of…
In this blog, I’ll be talking about the housing market on a national scale, and there are two charts as part of this missive and two tables. First, supply and demand drive real estate. And you can see from our first chart that the number of dwelling sales – that is, the demand side of…
Sluggish global markets, high inflation, high cost of living and a heated property market mean our finances are constantly shifting. And even billionaires aren’t immune. Forbes released its annual rich list for 2024 earlier this year, where it showed that there are more billionaires than ever – at 2,781 people across the globe in total,…
I don’t know about you, but there have been times in my life when I’ve had to give up certain things. No one likes doing this, especially if what you’re giving up is enjoyable stuff! New Year’s resolutions are all about giving up what is not good for us in the long term. It could…
Tim’s book Tools of Titans was awesome. It can only be best described as action-packed and full of lessons that would be hard to find elsewhere. In Tools of Titans, Tim took a whole bunch of his incredible interviews and broke them down into two articles of 2 to 3 pages in length. This enabled him…
Housing affordability, or the lack thereof, and the historically low vacancy rates, have often been blamed on a large number of overseas migrants coming to Australia, so what would happen if we stopped migration? That’s what I’m going to be discussing today with leading demographer Simon Kuestenmacher… However, this is a special episode of a…
There was a lot of talk last year about Melbourne’s population overtaking Sydney. This is because there are two main definitions for the metropolitan areas of all the capitals, and both were updated for 2022 and released by ABS last month. So, there are essentially two competing definitions for what constitutes an Australian capital city….
Backed by extensive research people’s number 1 soul-crushing regret in their life probably won’t surprise you. Romantic regrets for women are the most common type. For men, work regrets are the most crippling. People regretted actions and inactions to equal degrees. But, it was regrets about things people didn’t do that lasted the longest. Here…
In his continuing series of articles, I’ll explain the role of a project manager and helps you decide whether or not it is the right choice for your development project. If you are a beginning property developer I would definitely suggest that you recruit a good development/project manager as a part of your team. Even…
