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What’s the outlook for the Australian property markets for 2022 and beyond? This is a common question people are asking now that we have entered a new year. Despite all the challenges Covid19 threw at us and a sequence of lockdowns, Australia’s housing markets experienced a once in a generation boom in property prices in…
With an aging population and ever decreasing government resources, Australians are looking at being less reliant on the social security safety net and planning personal strategies to give themselves comfortable financial security in later years. Given the vagaries of the stock market, investing in property is being recognised as a less risky way of owning…
Are you looking to get into property investment, or maybe you’re keen to add to your existing property portfolio? It’s that time of year when many Aussies are reevaluating their financial plans for 2022. Well, maybe you should buy an investment property… But maybe you shouldn’t. Fact is, I’ve spoken with hundreds and hundreds of…
What will Brisbane’s best-performing suburbs be as we head into 2022? It is usually this time of year a host of property commentators reveal their top picks. I do not usually buy into it too much, after all, you know what they say about opinions. But this year, I felt compelled to comment as I…
Capital gains tax (CGT) is the tax you pay on profits from selling assets, such as property. In essence, you make a capital gain when the difference between what it cost you to acquire your property (or another asset) and what you gained from selling it is greater than zero — in other words,…
Australia’s real estate resilience continued its reign through the September 2021 quarter, according to the latest CoreLogic Pain & Gain Report. The rate of profit-making resales across Australia rose to 92.4% in the September 2021 quarter, up 0.5% from the June quarter. The three months to September saw the highest level of profitability on resales…
Melbourne house rents jumped by $15 (3.5 per cent) over the quarter to a new record high of $445 a week according to Domain’s latest Rental Report. This is the first quarterly increase since September 2020. Despite the rise, Melbourne remains Australia’s most affordable capital city to rent a house, recording the weakest annual growth…
The property market finished 2021 with some astounding results. However, a flood of pre-Christmas listings of properties for sale saw house prices stabilise over the last weeks of the year in Sydney and Melbourne. The surge in supply of properties for sale gave buyers more choice and took a further edge off auction clearance rates….
Sydney house rents jumped $20 over the quarter to hit a new record high of $600 a week according to Domain’s latest Rental Report. This is the steepest annual increase in house rents since 2009, at 9.1 per cent or $50. Domain reports that Sydney unit rents have increased by $5 over the quarter to…
What did 2021 bring to us and what are the most possible scenarios for 2022? These and other questions were raised and answered by Dr. Shane Oliver, Head of Investment Strategy and Economics and Chief Economist, AMP, in his recent Insights. He mentioned 6 things that went wrong in 2021, some positives from last year,…
