Residential Sales Reflect the True State of the Housing Market
November 17th, 2014
Sales volumes and not the reported price growth is the key to knowing where the property market is headed and to buying/selling property, according to Michael Matusik, founder of Matusik Property Insights. The media always talks about house pric
Read MoreLow Interest Rates Could Make Australian Economy Unstable
October 8th, 2014
Low interest rates lead to higher house prices as a result of more lending and more borrowing, says Jacob Greber, an economics correspondent with The Australian Financial Review. This could spell disaster for the Australian economy when interest ra
Read MoreYoung Sydneysiders Priced Out of a Home
October 1st, 2014
High property prices in Sydney have locked young people out of the housing market, according to Eamon Waterford, director of Youth Action, in The Sydney Morning Herald. While a few can borrow a couple hundred thousand dollars from their parents,
Read MoreThe Effect of Sustainability on Real Estate Values
September 17th, 2014
In a recent report by Hotspotting, it has been found that sustainable infrastructure developments pay off through higher property values. So investors who want to choose the next property hotspot should look for areas that have good public transpor
Read MoreBondi Junction to Spark a Sustainable Future for Sydney
September 12th, 2014
The community of Bondi Junction in Sydney can help shape a sustainable future for not only the precinct, but also for the rest of the city, said the Mayor of Waverley Council, Sally Betts, on The Fifth Estate. At a presentation in the East Leagu
Read MoreDisconnect Between Euphoric Markets and Economy Could Cause Another GFC
July 30th, 2014
A recent report by the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) found that there’s a disconnect between euphoric markets and the economy which could lead to another global financial crisis (GFC), wrote Philip Baker of The Australian Financial Rev
Read MoreWhat can Australia learn from Germany’s Progressive Property Market?
July 16th, 2014
“It’s not a house, it’s a home,” Daryl Kerrigan once said in the quintessentially Australian film The Castle. But it seems that this very obsession with homeownership is holding the country back, argued Eryk Bagshaw in The Sydney Morning He
Read MoreA Guide to Sydney’s Top Property Suburbs 2014-2015
July 7th, 2014
Domain.com.au estimated house values in suburbs around Sydney with the release of their 2014 property guide. However, they should truly only be understood as a guide. As Chris Curtis explains in his article about the contradictory nature of recen
Read MoreHow to Overcome Information Overload in Real Estate Investing
June 29th, 2014
In real estate, property investors tend to be overloaded with information in the form of diagrams, statistics, data providers and recommendations. Confused yet? Here are some ways to overcome real estate information overload, thanks to Jessie Richa
Read MoreA Study of the Sydney Property Market Over Two Decades
June 23rd, 2014
Over the last two decades, the Sydney property market has undergone significant changes in regards to the median price of a home and the property’s location, according to Cameron Kusher on Property Observer. Let’s take a look at how things have
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