How old is too old to invest?
They were meant to be your golden years, when you’d finally stop working and drive off into the sunset in a convertible, headed to your weekender down the coast or to your boat docked at the local marina.
You were …
How to start investing in property with no money
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…
Are you stressed about mortgage stress?
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…
Interest rate or cash flow: what is more important?
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 …
Is now a good time to fix rates?
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…
Will the stock market volatility cause house prices to fall?
How will the current volatility in the stock market cause our property markets to crash?
You’d have to be living under a rock not to have heard that the global stock markets have recently experienced some of their …
How does a 23 year old get into the property market?
If you believed all of the media headlines, young people across the whole of Australia will never own property.
According to media reports, housing affordability is the worst it’s ever been, so us “youngsters” shou…
How to protect yourself from rising interest rates
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…
What will the CBD and South East Light Rail do to Sydney property prices?
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…
2018 is going to be a boom year
I predict that 2018 is going to be a boom year!
But before you start wondering what I’m “on”, let me explain… I believe this is going to be a boom year for fright!
The media is at it again and there is no shor…