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Why the glass is half full for Australian property investors
Australian property prices have been on a downward spiral ever since the Reserve Bank of Australia started raising interest rates, with CoreLogic's January national home value index down 8.9% from its peak in April last year. And with the Reserve Bank of Australia...
Six steps for property investment success in 2023
It’s a great time to be a property investor with CoreLogic’s latest quarterly rental review finding national rent values soared 10.2% during the 2022 calendar year. This uplift means rents are now up by a stunning 22.2% since they began their most recent upswing in...
What’s in store for Australia’s property markets in 2023?
A lot can happen in just 12 months. Take the cash rate, which started off 2022 at a historical low of 0.10%. It’s now at 3.10% – the highest point in a decade. Increasing the cash rate makes borrowing more expensive. So that, in turn, has reduced buyer demand and...
Australia’s housing supply crunch
Much like any other market, Australia’s residential property markets are subject to the law of supply and demand. That means: When demand exceeds supply, home values typically rise When supply exceeds demand, home values typically drop But here’s where it gets...
How to navigate the changing finance landscape
The finance landscape changed in May when the Reserve Bank of Australia lifted the official cash rate from its historical low of 0.10% to combat inflation. By October, just six months later, the cash rate had increased by 2.50 percentage points – the fastest pace...
What’s behind Australia’s ‘rental crisis’?
Australian tenants are struggling to find homes to live in after the national vacancy rate fell to 0.9% in August, a 16-year low, according to SQM Research. With just under 33,000 residential properties available to rent nationwide – down from 36,700 in July – Louis...
The importance of a team
Albert Einstein might have discovered the theory of relativity, but he wasn’t a lone genius. Rather, the most brilliant mind in history collaborated with friends and colleagues, including Marcel Grossman, during the development process. Similarly, while natural...
Why it’s not all doom and gloom for Australia’s resilient economy
There’s plenty of negative news these days, what with prices rising, interest rates rising and property prices falling. But it’s important to put these so-called problems into perspective. Take interest rates, as an example. While the Reserve Bank of Australia...
What does Labor’s win mean for property markets?
As the evidence clearly shows, Australia is a wonderful country in which to be a property investor. Our country is safe and peaceful. Our political and banking systems are stable. The economy has historically grown over the long-term. And property prices have...
Will higher interest rates cause property prices to fall?
After the Reserve Bank of Australia hiked the cash rate by 25 basis points to 0.35%, there was one question on every property investor’s lips: will rising interest rates cause property prices to fall? After all, record-low mortgage rates were a driver of the recent...