You’re ready to take the next step and buy your first, or buy another, investment property. And you’re looking for the best Buyer’s agent or Buyer’s advocate around in order to make your investment property purchase. Naturally, among all your research for the best Buyer’s agent for the job, you’re probably doing a lot of…
If you feel like buying a home is harder today than it was a decade ago, you’re right, and the data backs that up. Australia’s housing affordability is now at levels that would be considered extreme in almost any advanced economy. Prices have outpaced incomes, deposits take far longer to save, and home ownership, once…
Most property investors won’t lose money in 2026. But many will lose time. Years of it, tied up in properties that go nowhere because they bought the wrong asset in the wrong location and hoped the market would bail them out. The uncomfortable truth is that this year the Australian property market will no longer…
If you think Australia’s property market has “settled down”… I’d challenge that. Sure, prices have kept rising in many places, but that’s not the whole story. What’s happening now is more interesting, and more important if you’re an investor, because the market isn’t moving as one. Here’s what a lot of investors get wrong at…
If you are thinking about buying, selling, upgrading, or investing in property over the course of 2026, you are probably wondering what property prices will do this year. In this blog, I revisit the evidence-based factors that matter most: loan volumes, borrowing capacity, interest rate expectations, interstate migration, and where each capital city sits in its cycle. I also explain why…
Housing markets have predictably steadied into 2026 as the usual holiday impacts on buyer and seller numbers together with sharply reduced auction activity act to place downward pressure on prices following a booming 2025. The national capital city median house price increased marginally by 0.1% over the January quarter to $1,279,800 compared to the December…
When we talk about Australia’s housing crisis, the focus tends to fall on two things: supply versus demand. This post looks at one aspect of supply which is often (well frankly almost always) overlooked – spare bedrooms. Now the headlines cry “Build more homes,” and yes, in many cases, that’s the right answer. But what…
Property management used to be about collecting the rent, fixing leaky taps, and making sure the lawn got mowed. That’s what we hired managers for, wasn’t it? But fast-forward to 2025, and we’re looking at a whole new ball game. Today’s property managers are part strategist, part tech-whiz, part asset manager – and all of…
Negotiation is more of an art than a science. Skilful negotiation doesn’t come naturally to most of us – it’s something that needs to be learned, practised, and perfected over time. It’s often said that it takes 10,000 hours to become an expert at anything, which means that most buyers and sellers, who only transact…
The cul-de-sac is a suburban trap. It’s virtually useless as a road, doesn’t support public transport, cycling or walking, and doesn’t work well as a play or gathering place. Its literal translation from French is “bottom of a sack” – which sounds a lot less glamorous, you’ll agree. And yet we persist with them. The…
