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.
Australia’s population just ticked past 28 million people, and the timing tells you everything you need to know about the forces driving our property market. Back in 2003, the ABS published its official population projections and forecast that Australia would reach 26.4 million people by the year 2051 – assuming net overseas migration of around…
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Melbourne’s housing market is in a position unlike any other capital city in Australia. Home values fell 0.8% in May 2026, extending a correction that has now carried the market 3.2% below the record highs set in March 2022 — meaning Melbourne never fully recovered from its previous downturn before the current one began. The…
SQM Research released its latest data on residential rental property vacancy rates. Australia’s national residential vacancy rate remained unchanged at 1.2% in May 2026, with total residential vacancies increasing from 35,258 to 37,844 dwellings over the month. While vacancy rates rose in several capital cities, conditions remain tight overall, with all capital cities continuing to…
Turn on the news or check out social media morning and you’d be forgiven for thinking the property market is on borrowed time. Interest rates, housing affordability, cost of living pressures, geopolitical tensions and now the budget change – the list of worries seems to grow faster than property values. Yet, after watching markets move…
For years, we’ve been told that property investors are the big winners when it comes to tax breaks. I’m sure you’ve heard the narrative: investors get negative gearing, capital gains tax discounts and all sorts of incentives that ordinary Australians don’t receive. But when you step back and look at the numbers objectively, that story…
The 1970s may have been known for flamboyant clothing, but their architecture was somewhat less exciting. In fact, property from that time period could almost be described as quite “bland” – at least from the outside. Inside, of course, was a different story with the wallpaper often featuring paisley motifs and the floors festooned with…
Most Australians think short term. They’re wondering what they’ll do this weekend, what’s for dinner, or how to stretch the next pay cheque. And most beginning property investors aren’t much different. They obsess over today’s interest rate rise, this week’s media headline, or whether their investment property will be cash flow positive right now. But…
Turn on the news or scroll through your feed and you’ll see the same pattern playing out again. Confident forecasts, persuasive arguments, and a steady stream of opinions about where property markets, interest rates, and the economy are heading next. Some say prices will fall. Others insist we’re on the verge of the next upturn….
Australia seems obsessed with generational warfare. Baby boomers are accused of pulling up the ladder behind them. Millennials complain they’ve been locked out of the property market. Gen X feels forgotten. Gen Z believes they have inherited an impossible future. And politicians, commentators and social media influencers are only too happy to keep the argument…
The RBA will finally give mortgage holders a breather this Tuesday, according to the majority of experts in this month’s Finder RBA Cash Rate Survey, in which 38 experts and economists weighed in on future cash rate moves and other issues relating to the state of the economy. Almost all panellists (97%, 37/38) expect the RBA…
