Is finance cooling our housing markets?
When you look at auction clearance rates across Australia, speak to builders and real estate agents, it’s clear that the market generally has softened.
Of course, finance is the key fundamental that under…
Stumping up a Sydney deposit
Here’s a number for you — 10,950.
Ten thousand, nine hundred and fifty.
That’s how many days a first-time property buyer will have to scrimp and save for a 20 per cent deposit for a place in Sydney.
Not the p…
How to cash in at tax time
Forget Christmas! An investor’s favourite time of year is June 30. The beginning of tax time. A time to squirrel back as much money from the taxman as legally possible.
And if you’re a property investor, …
Should you invest in Victoria’s satellite cities?
On the crazy scale, Melbourne house price growth has been a few pegs behind Sydney these past couple of years.
Still, values in the Victorian capital rose a whopping 13.2 per cent in 2017.
If you’ve been looking…
Should you go guarantor for your kids?
You’ve loved them, guided them and raised them ever since they were first placed into your arms as a little screaming ball of redness.
And you’d do anything to give your kids the best possible start in th…
First signs of APRA restrictions are lifted
So APRA has finally cut its limit on investor lending growth — some three and a half years after it was implemented by finally axing its 10% investor lending speed limit by saying that it had “served its pur…
What will drive Brisbane’s property price higher?
Brisbane property investors are proving more loyal than a third-generation Lions supporter.
Since 2010, Brisbane has been your favourite pub band — full of potential, not lacking enthusiasm, but frustratingly unabl…
Are you a worrier or a warrior?
There is a saying that is a useful one to adopt if you’re prone to worrying unnecessarily.
It is, “Why don’t you save your worry until there is something to worry about?”
It’s a useful mantra because s…
Is the worst over for Brisbane’s unit market?
If the unit market in Brisbane was a movie, last year’s performance would’ve made anything Quentin Tarantino can serve up look like a Disney classic.
An explosion of new stock caused a dramatic oversupply that caus…
Sydney – is it spiralling or settling?
You know that smell just before a big downpour?
It’s a familiar scent that fills the air and instantly hints that you should bring the washing in.
Or how you get a scratchy sensation in the back of your throat, …