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Fostering a good relationship between all parties to a tenancy will allow everyone to get so much more out of the experience. It’s basic logic. Treat your tenants with respect; be considerate of the fact that your property investment is their home, and they will (hopefully) show you the same courtesy. Remember, these are the…
There are so many events, decisions and occurrences that I look back on over the years and think, ‘Wow, if only I knew then what I know now, how differently things would have been.’ While it’s too late for me, one of the most important things we can do as parents is to equip our…
Property investors are always on the lookout for the causes of house price growth. The reason is obvious – if we know what leads to price rises, we can identify potential boom areas before the growth starts and then sell out before it stops. One well-tested way to do this is to find links between…
You’ve probably heard about the “great resignation” which saw large numbers of people resigning from their jobs in the US in 2021 and 2022. We didn’t see resignations over and above what is normal in Australia. However, we did see workers resisting the post-COVID return to the office. To better understand these trends, we conducted…
Sixty years ago the animated series The Jetsons finished its first and only season before being cancelled. Just 24 episodes were broadcast between September 1962 and March 1963. Despite this, the cartoon has achieved huge influence in popular culture, with countless reruns, a reboot in the mid-1980s (51 episodes over two seasons) and a feature-length…
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Measuring subjective ideas like happiness and life satisfaction is tricky business. Are wealth and prosperity legitimate measures of happiness? How about safety and health outcomes? In the West, we view democracy as a key component to happiness, yet there are countries under authoritarian rule that score high on the Happiness Index. Questions like these make “ranking happiness”…
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Today I’ll be chatting with Mark Creedon, and unpacking a somewhat controversial topic: Why, despite all the challenges and problems we face today, this is truly the best time in history to be alive? I’ve found that in this fast-paced world filled with uncertainty, it’s all too easy to get bogged down by the negative…
Building approvals continued to crash in April, with unit approvals soft all year in Sydney and Melbourne. Unit approvals were -35 per cent lower than a year ago, with Sydney and Melbourne leading the plunge. House approvals are also declining across the board, with only the strong Adelaide market holding the line. Overall, building approvals…
How would you use your tax returns? According to new research from Finder, 1,077 respondents revealed a worrying 1 in 8 Australians (12%) – equivalent to 2.4 million people – admit this year’s tax refund is ‘critical’ to their financial health. Almost 1 in 4 (23%) say cash injection at the end of the financial…
The Reserve Bank could deliver a further 0.25 percentage point hike in the next few months, potentially as early as next Tuesday, after today’s CPI figures confirmed inflation has remained stubbornly high in some categories. In a mixed bag of results, the latest data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) shows annual inflation increased from…
