There are plenty of mistakes that novice property investors make that can derail them. These can range from simply buying the wrong property for the wrong price to not having any rainy day money in their kitty (a buffer). However, here are three mistakes that are a little more tricky to overcome because they are…
If you want to increase the rental yield on your investment property, there are proven strategies to bring in a higher rent without driving tenants away. With the right improvements, landlords can increase the amount they charge for rent, but there is a fine line between improvements that can increase rental income and those which…
The big shift to regional Australia is indisputably on. This topic has got a massive head of steam. To be a bit flippant, it needs a good slapping down. Below is a recent press clipping from The Oz newspaper. To repeat there is no race to the regions. If my recent conversations are any guide, then a lot of…
More than half of Australian mortgage holders who took out a new home loan with one of the major banks lied about their circumstances to make sure their loan was approved, shocking new research has revealed. The survey, conducted by UBS, revealed that 55% of Aussies who took out a home loan with ANZ in…
Digital real estate in the virtual metaverse is fast becoming the hottest property on the market and is tipped to boom in value within just a couple of years. Here’s everything you need to know about metaverse real estate – the costs, the investments and the risks. What is metaverse real estate? The metaverse is…
A fundamental equation in the property game is that a rising population can deliver excellent property price growth – and this has certainly been the historical case for Brisbane. One of the best measures of Brisbane’s relative success compared to other Australian population centres is Net Interstate Migrate (NIM). This ABS statistic is a measure…
When it comes to buying an investment property or your next home, it’s important that you’re aware of everything listed in the contract of sale and how it might affect you. It might sound like a tropical holiday cocktail, but a sunset clause packs much more punch than a summery beverage – it is a…
Every week we seem to hear of a new development or trend to come about as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic – and one seems set to impact the housing market for the foreseeable future. You see, after years of house sizes shrinking, and of Aussies favouring low-maintenance homes with petite yards smaller footprints,…
While a lot is written and discussed about what is currently happening to our property markets and what’s going to happen in the future, have you ever wondered what’s happened over the last 30 years? Well..to celebrate Aussie’s 30th anniversary, they looked at 30 years of property trends between December 1991 and December 2021. Data…
There are around 9 million Australians (which accounts for 35% of the population) living in suburbs classified as ‘childcare deserts’, where children outnumber childcare spaces by more than 3-to-1. A new report, published by the Mitchell Institute and Victoria University, maps out the shortage of childcare services across every neighbourhood in the country and compares…
