I was having a beer with a friend on Friday when the results came in.
Scott Morrison was our new Prime Minister.
In fact, ScoMo was our sixth leader in a little over a decade.
The events of past week have bee…
The Brisbane new unit market appears to be turning a corner, with a new survey finding renters are soaking up supply.
Of course, much has been written about the thousands of new units that hit the inner Brisbane ma…
I want you to picture a big suitcase stuffed with $929,000 in cash. It’s all yours. That’s your wealth.
Now, I want you to imagine that suitcase is tied to a very thin piece of string, suspended high in the air, da…
You know the market has turned when you start seeing headlines with words like “bust”, “crunch” and “plunge” in the headlines.
It was only 18 months ago when the words “boom”, “record highs” and “peak” were much mo…
Housing finance is in the news more often than it’s not these days.
One of the reasons is that as capital cities move through their respective cycles so does reporting on the property market.
One day, strong mar…
I remember reading a news article a year or so back about a property investor whose tenant accidentally started a fire in the unit and gutted the place.
The structure was fine and any small repairs that had to be m…
Like your first kiss; car, job, love and heartbreak, chances are you’ll never forget your very first credit card.
Not because of the dizzying high it gave, the sage wisdom it instilled or the thrilling sense of acc…
When it comes to property investing, quite often there’s no reward — or usually no big reward in any case — without a little bit of risk.
Similarly, there’s almost always no reward without a heavy dose of reality.
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As an expat Aussie, you’ve worked hard and made sacrifices for your chosen career.
Now it’s time to still call Australia home by dipping your toe back into the water of Oz property… but there’s danger in retaining …
Most people struggle to fit everything in to the time we have available to us each day.
In fact, there are plenty of inventions that have promised to give us more time with our families by automating or s…
