It wasn’t that long ago that banks would lend you more money than the value of the property that you were buying.
Lenders were hungry for business and the economy was robust so it was deemed to be a reasonable scen…
There appears to be an increasing amount of media commentary about mortgage stress of late.
This is mainly because of the “threat” of rising interest rates because, as I’ve written about before, rates can’t stay hi…
Are interest rates going up? The perennial question.
To be honest, the ongoing talk of interest rates and the property bubble, people telling me how hard it is to get into property (as they sip their latte and eat …
It’s a never-ending question: “Is now a good time to fix rates?”
However, my constant reply is always: “Well, it depends!”
That’s because there are a number of variables that you must consider before deciding w…
As we head into 2018, there is already plenty of talk about interest rates rising this year.
However, chatter about rates rising has been happening for years now.
In fact, can you believe that this year marks 10…
Part of Melbourne’s property landscape – and identity – has always been its iconic terrace houses.
Built mainly in the 19th Century, they remain some of the most desirable properties in the inner-city with most rip…
If you’ve ventured into Sydney’s CBD over the past year or so you would have noticed something quite unusual.
The bustle along George Street near Circular Quay, while still there, has been usurped by heavy machiner…
Brisbane has been in the property news a lot, and not all of it has been complimentary.
The Sunshine State capital’s much publicised new unit oversupply has been hogging plenty of headlines, but is such coverage wa…
When I wrote about bitcoin just before Christmas, its price was sitting around USD$19,000.
Today, about three weeks later, it’s sitting about USD $14,000.
That’s a drop of about 26 per cent – in just three weeks…
If an alien landed in Australia, it might think that we’re a nation of renovators.
Not only do we have a plethora of TV shows about renovating for profit, but there is an army of amateurs who spend their weekends b…
