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International students – a ticking time bomb in the Sydney property market?
October 13th, 2019International education is Australia’s third largest export industry after iron ore and coal, worth $32.4 billion to the economy, according to the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. (Depending on one’s definition of exports, other ec
Read MoreThe Regulator: friend or foe of Sydney property buyers?
July 10th, 2019Most property buyers in Sydney come to the table with similar preoccupations and questions: does the house or apartment they are looking at have a view? Is it north facing? Are there any noisy bars in earshot? How far is it from a train station?
Read MoreMedia mania: Sydney’s property market – seeing it for what it is
April 10th, 2019In September last year, 60 Minutes, Channel Nine’s flagship current affairs program, predicted that house prices in Sydney could fall by as much as 40 percent in just 12 months.Over six months later and there is no sight yet of such a dram
Read MoreIs Sydney’s residential property market bottoming out ? – On this data, maybe
October 11th, 2018In their recent blog Decoding Property Buying Intentions Digital Finance Analytics (DFA) has extracted data from their 52,000 strong data base to assess current, nation wide property buying intentions. Borrowing from Bachman Turner Overdrive’s 1
Read MoreThe flattening Sydney property market – four reasons why this time could be different
April 11th, 2018Driven by high credit and population growth, Sydney’s property market has been on an almost uninterrupted upwards trajectory for well over a decade.During that period, it has proven remarkably resilient to various shocks which, in order of
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