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.
At the moment, things look awful. The latest Bureau of Statistics count of retail spending (spending online and in shops) released Tuesday shows we spent less in April than in February. The Westpac card tracker, which tracks spending by Westpac customers, shows spending on essentials has fallen 1.6% since April. Spending on non-essentials (what Westpac…
They say the road to success is paved with failures, and speaking from personal experience, I know that’s very true. Here are 5 lessons you’ll have to learn before you can become successful. You might have already learned some the hard way, but you still have the chance to learn the others without necessarily having…
You’ve heard me say it before… your thoughts lead to your feelings, your feeling becomes your actions and your actions become your results. I’ve heard others say it differently… your words become actions, which eventually become your destiny. Similarly, Napoleon Hill, who wrote Think and Grow Rich and became the twentieth-century father of personal success,…
Would you like to learn the property investment secrets of Australia’s richest property investor? Well, today we’ll explore the powerful strategies that fueled Harry Triguboff’s ascent to billionaire status, as we learn seven lessons from the $26 billion man who is regularly number one or number two on Australia’s wealthiest person list. My guest, Tyrone…
The prospect of cash rate cuts in 2024 remains in doubt following higher than expected inflation figures released today from the ABS. The monthly CPI indicator shows annual inflation rose 3.6 per cent in the 12 months to April 2024, the highest annual rate since November of last year and up for the second month…
Building a new home in Victoria just got a whole lot more expensive. Earlier this month, the cost of building a new home jumped by about $25,000 overnight. This spike followed a 35% surge in new home sales across the state in April. Buyers were rushing to beat the new minimum standards under the National…
Australians are having fewer babies, so many fewer that without international migration our population would be on track to decline in just over a decade. In most circumstances, the number of babies per woman that a population needs to sustain itself – the so-called total fertility rate – is 2.1. Australia’s total fertility rate dipped…
If you think investing in property is beyond your reach, then it might be time to think about joint ventures. Picture yourself in this scenario… you’re now in your 50s and your kids are all grown up and left home. You see them battling out there in the jungle and you wonder how they’re going…
Over the last ten years, changes in Australia may have seemed gradual, but they’re shaping the nation our children will inherit. Recently Australia’s leading demographer, Simon Kuestenmacher, wrote a series of articles for The New Daily delving into what these shifts mean for our future. So let’s look at some of his thoughts… The Millenial…
It’s such a disheartening scenario. After weeks or even months of open homes, with strangers traipsing through your property every Saturday, and spending hours on the phone with your selling agent – you don’t get a single bite. It’s hard not to get despondent and feel like it was all for naught. You had high…
