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.
How you manage your money can have two consequences: it’ll either make you more money, or it won’t. Strategic property investors know how to use their money to make more money and buy more properties sooner. In today’s challenging environment it’s harder for property investors and homeowners to obtain finance. So, let’s look at five…
Have you ever stopped to wonder how long your super will actually last you in retirement? Most Australians glance at their balance and assume it will be enough. But the truth is sobering: if you retire at 67, there’s a very good chance you’ll spend 20 to 25 years in retirement—and the average super balance…
Ever wondered who in Australia is really taking home the big bucks? Well, the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) has just released its latest income statistics, and the numbers might surprise you, as reported by Yahoo Finance. While most Australians are feeling the pinch of rising costs of living, some professions are earning more in a…
If you’ve been watching Australia’s property market and feeling like the numbers don’t quite add up, you’re right. Refinancing is exploding, new-build lending is falling off a cliff, and investors are quietly staging a comeback. Yet when you dig deeper into the latest data, you start to see a much clearer story about where our…
If you’ve been following Australia’s property market for a while (as I’m sure many of you have), you know affordability has long been a hot topic — often used as a political football, a media headline grabber, and a generational grievance. But now, new data from the Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute (AHURI), reported…
Imagine a world where Australians could work just four days a week, without a pay cut, without a drop in productivity, and still deliver the same results. It sounds too good to be true, doesn’t it? Yet mounting evidence from around the world shows that the four-day workweek isn’t just a feel-good idea; it may…
Let’s be honest, money and love have always been strange bedfellows. But new research suggests that for millions of Australians, the two are now deeply, perhaps uncomfortably, intertwined. According to a new Finder survey, almost 1 in 5 Australians (17%), that’s about 3.6 million people, admit to pursuing a romantic relationship for financial reasons. In…
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Today I want to show you how you can move from working for money to making money work for you and I’ll use Robert Kiyosaki’s Cashflow Quadrant as your guide. To unpack this, I’m joined by Mark Creedon, CEO of Metropole and business coach to many of Australia’s top entrepreneurs, who shares how you can…
If you want to understand where Australia’s property market is truly heading, don’t just look at what’s listed; look at what buyers are actually searching for. That’s what Domain’s latest Matching Demand report uncovers by comparing millions of buyer search budgets with the actual prices of properties listed for sale across every capital city. And…
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Thinking about selling your investment property? Wondering if leases still protect you these days? Or maybe you’ve heard AI and inspection managers are taking over property management? In today’s show, I sit down with Leanne Jopson, Director of Property Management at Metropole, to answer the five most common questions investors ask her. Leanne and her…
