Category: Articles
Residential Sales Reflect the True State of the Housing Market
November 17th, 2014Sales 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 MoreSydney’s October 2014 property market – emerging trends and a reminder that things move in cycles
October 31st, 2014With the onset of warm weather, the latest noise from the property commentariat has been deafening.This month the obsessions were less with foreign buyers edging out local first home buyers and more with old chestnuts like negative gearing; p
Read MoreLow Interest Rates Could Make Australian Economy Unstable
October 8th, 2014Low 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, 2014High 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 MoreSydney property all froth and bubble – we just don’t buy it.
September 19th, 2014If confirmation of mainstream media's interest in turbo charging Sydney's residential property market were needed, property buyers needed to look no further in the past six weeks than the most recent front pages of the Murdoch owned community newspap
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