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The latest Corelogic Pain & Gain Report shows who’s winning and losing when they resell their properties. Across the nation, the majority of properties resold over the March 2019 quarter continued to transact at a profit. However, 12.1% of resales were at a loss which was the highest share of resales at a loss since…
The national residential rental vacancy rate increased in June 2019 to 2.3%, an increase from 2.2% in May. The total number of vacancies Australia-wide is now at 78,690 vacant residential properties, an increase of 3,597 over the month and up 2,933 dwellings over the past 12 months. Nearly all capital cities recorded minor increases ranging…
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The latest housing market results present an early sign that lower mortgage rates and improved sentiment are already having a flow-on effect for housing market conditions. Last month, CoreLogic’s national housing market index moved closer to leveling out with values down 0.2% over the month, the smallest month-on-month decline in the national series since March…
Investors are constantly on the look-out for great ideas. They may not be new ideas, they could simply be a new take on an old format, but a good idea is what makes business go around. Not money, but good ideas. Unfortunately, some ideas that seemed like good ideas at first turn out to…
Countries across the world have been going through an important demographic transition: from young to increasingly ageing populations. In 2018 the number of people older than 64 years old surpassed the number of children under 5 years old. This was the first time in history this was the case. We can see this transition clearly…
We live in an interesting world don’t we? Particularly if you’re an investor. Every time the world’s economic woes seem to have sorted themselves out, or we think Australia’s economy is on the move again or we feel Australia’s property markets seem to be steaming along nicely, a new set of challenges pop up for…
Household wealth data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) released recently showed that over the past year, a households net worth & assets fell as liabilities grew. The ABS data showed that at the end of the March quarter, household net worth was $10.243 trillion. While a large figure, household wealth has now fallen…
The latest Corelogic Pain & Gain Report shows who’s winning and losing when they resell their properties in Brisbane. Based on resales across Greater Brisbane over the third quarter of 2018, the total value of resales at a profit was $1.310 billion while the total value of resales at a loss was recorded at $37.1…
There’s little doubt that Australia is currently experiencing rapid rates of population growth, but much of the focus has been on immigration. However populations grow in two main ways — through net migration and natural increase ie the difference between births and deaths. In recent years the number of births in Australia has exceeded 300,000 per…
Boundary fences are one of the major causes of property disputes between neighbours. So, what are your rights when a new dividing fence needs to be put up between you and next door? Broadcaster Richard Glover wrote a column for the Sydney Morning Herald outlining to his son on his 18th birthday some lessons he’d…
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