Michael has been once again voted Australia’s leading property investment advisor by the readers of ‘Your Investent 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 1 million others who get their updates from Michael and his group of expert guest bloggers and benefit from their perspective.
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Hindsight is a wonderful thing, isn’t it? Let me ask you a question… With the benefit of hindsight and knowing what you know now if you had the opportunity to do so, would you have bought an investment property 40 years ago? I bet your answer would be yes realising that the median property price…
Over the past year, house prices have grown at the third-fastest rate in Australia’s history. PropTrack economist Paul Ryan wrote in the Australian that the 22% rate of growth seen across our capital cities this year, was the third-fastest in history, next to the records achieved in the 1980s and 1950s. Understanding past episodes of…
The maths behind financial independence is incredibly simple. If that’s the case why do so few Australians achieve financial freedom? It’s not for the lack of knowledge – there are so many money blogs, videos, and podcasts out there. Instead, it’s a combination of our mindset, habits, and behaviours that rule our financial destiny. So…
Now that we’ve worked our way through Covid, what can we expect to happen to our property markets over the next decade? That’s a common question I’m being asked by both our clients at Metropole and many media sources now that we’ve experienced a strong year in property, but we’re facing headwinds like APRA’s intervention…
You’ll never believe what’s going to happen to Australia’s property markets. Now I’m not talking about tomorrow, or next month, or next year. Of course that’s the focus of much of the media at present. There is a lot of commentary about what’s going to happen to our property markets in the short-term, or how…
Here are some interesting facts… The first car was invented in Germany in 1886 where there were no proper roads, no petrol stations, and it was against at the law. But Karl Benz launched it anyway. Amongst 50 of the greatest pieces of music ever created, six belong to Mozart, five are Beethoven’s, and three…
Do you enjoy your coffee? I know I do, so I was pleased to read that moderate coffee consumption is linked to both mental and physical health. A study published in The British Medical Journal (Poole et al., 2017) shows that moderate coffee intake reduced depression risk and lower levels of Parkinson’s and dementia. I knew I was drinking…
Property markets around Australia have been buoyant for some time now and memories of the difficult times in real estate we experienced a few years ago have become a faded memory for many of us. However, it would be a pity to have lived through those challenging times without learning some lessons so that we…
Population growth and immigration are always hot topics, aren’t they? But what’s really happening to the world population? Believe it or not, the world has already set the course for a future population decline – while experts agree on this, they haven’t been on the same page about just how fast the number of people on…
I was recently asked to distill my property investment philosophy into a few simple rules. Now that’s a big ask… Distill all the mistakes I’ve made and seen others make, as well as all the lessons I’ve learned and those of the many successes investors I’ve worked with into a view simple rules. Anyway…here’s my…
