This piece of advice may be different to what others recommend, but it may save you a heap of investment headaches down the track. I know there’s a school of thought that suggests one way to take the emotion out of your property purchase is to do all of your research on the Internet and

Some interesting stats came out of a recent Roy Morgan survey: Over the last four years the number of investment property loans in Australia has grown by 37% compared to an increase of only 4% in the number of owner occupied loans.  Of course this in line line with what we’ve been hearing about investors dominating the

I’ve found that for most property investors to change their level of wealth, they must change.  Rather than disagree, please humour me for a moment and read on… Sometimes we love change and sometimes we hate it. In fact some of us love to change and others fear it. Why is change difficult for many

There’s a worrying trend amongst our nation’s older generation, with more retirees exposing themselves to debt with the number of Australians over 65 with a mortgage increasing by 54% in four years In an analysis of data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), finder.com.au found that the number of Australian households with a mortgage

Did you pick the hidden surprise in last week’s horror budget? In my view there was some was some good news for property investors buried amongst all the spending cuts and tax hikes and I’m not taking about the fact that negative gearing was left untouched. I guess if you’re like most Australian’s your probably

It’s the age old question – when moving home do you buy or sell first? When recently asked this question by a journalist you’ll see below I have strong views, and interestingly they are the exact opposite of the president of the Real Instate Institute of Australia Here’s the article that appeared on news.com.au

In this video Bill Evans, chief economist of Westpac, discusses what he describes as the most important data release this year – the March quarter inflation report. He also discusses his revised forecast for interest rates and expectations for the Australian dollar.

In his recent commentary on Switzer Commsec chief Economist Craig James explained why he believes despite all the media hype that Australian homes are still affordable. He said: The Rismark housing affordability measure indicates that home prices stood at 4 times household disposable income in the December quarter – a figure broadly unchanged on a decade

20 Melbourne suburbs, and not surprisingly some of the wealthiest areas, were responsible for more than $10 billion worth of real estate sales last year according to RPData. In 2013 there were 81,590 residential sales in Melbourne and 107,845 in Victoria. Looking at the Melbourne market over the medium term this is a comparatively low

American economist Harry Dent spooked a lot of Australians recently when he predicted an economic tsunami that would take property prices back to levels we haven’t seen for over a decade. Others say our housing market is being underpinned by the strength of our economy, strong population growth, low interest rates as well as overseas