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.
We all fail at times – even the most successful people. I know I seem to have had more than my share of failures along the way. One of my biggest lessons along the way was to learn to take responsibility for my failures and not blame others. Another lesson was to pick myself up,…
How are you financing your Christmas shopping this year? Well, according to the latest data from Finder, millions of Australians are expected to land themselves in debt over Christmas that could take months to repay. Their survey of 1,056 respondents found more than a fifth (21%) of Aussies – equivalent to 4.2 million people –…
Did you know your brain is like a computer’s operating system? The good news is that this means you can program your brain to choose happiness. Here are the top 10 happiness hacks: Worrying about money is one of the biggest causes of unhappiness, but no amount of money can make you happy unless you…
Are you a Property Investor wanting to create a level of financial independence? Isn’t that the aim of every property investor, you well may ask? Surely all investors dream of the day they can give up their day job and live off their property portfolio. I would suggest for 98% on Investors, this would be…
Why do some properties significantly outperform others with regard to capital growth? Why are some properties always in strong demand and sell quickly? These are what I’d call “A-grade” properties. But what sets these exceptional properties apart from the rest, and how can investors uncover these hidden gems that consistently outperform market averages? As our…
There are plenty of misconceptions floating about concerning landlord insurance. Here are five common ones doing the rounds. Read on to sort the fact from fiction. Ever wondered where some of the ‘facts’ about landlord insurance have come from? So do we! Sometimes we are left scratching our heads about some of the misconceptions we…
Estimates vary, but there are upwards of two billion websites in existence in 2023. If we were to rank all of these websites according to their traffic numbers, we would see a classic power law distribution. At the low end, the vast majority of these websites would be inactive, receiving little to no traffic. On the…
Back in 2004, when I began my research to find out why the rich were rich and why the poor were poor, I’ll confess, I hated rich people. I had some entrenched negative beliefs about the wealthy that I inherited from my upbringing. As I uncovered more and more about the causes of wealth and…
Best-selling author Thomas Corley found some curious data in his 5-year study of wealthy people. He found that: 76% of the wealthy engaged in 30 minutes or more of aerobic activity four days a week. 77% of the poor did not. 70% of the wealthy ate less than 300 junk food calories a day vs….
Location is probably the most important thing to consider when it comes to buying your next investment property. Perhaps you’ve heard me say that the location of your property will do around 80% of the heavy lifting of its capital growth. “Location, location, location” is a well-known expression that highlights the importance of finding the…
