Hold onto your hats because the roller coaster ride, we call the property market has just turned up a gear! This time we’re on our way up! If you’ve read many of our blogs about property cycles, you’ll know that the property market is anything but a roller coaster; think of it as more of an escalator with a few plateaus and the very rare step backward, but nonetheless, I’m excited to [...]
An alternative option to purchasing a property as a home, rentvesting has become a popular option for those wanting to purchase property. At first, it might not seem to make sense - why pay off a mortgage and rent at the same time? Wouldn’t it just be easier to buy your home? As someone who has used the rentvesting strategy for several property purchases, I’m a big fan. Let me [...]
Property trends are constantly changing and evolving, so it's important to stay on top of what's happening in the market.In this blog we’ve included what to look for now, so you can make smarter decisions about your future real estate investments.Here we're going to look at five of the biggest property trends for 2023:1. Affordable locations dominate growthThe surge in prices amid the pandemic has led to priced-out buyers finding more [...]
The lights on the tree are on, the presents are wrapped, the kids are days away from running wild for the next six weeks, and you’re probably wondering how the end of 2022 is almost upon us! When it comes to 2022, I’ll remember it as a year of extremes in multiple facets. Extreme Price Growth 2022 started with a bang, with Australia experiencing universal price growth around most of the country. This trend [...]
1 Million Reasons to Invest in Property Right Now! Did you read our last blog about the impending property boom? If so, you would have read that we expected the federal government to take extraordinary action to counteract the current rental housing crisis being experienced in Australia. No more than two weeks after that blog, the federal government revealed that they plan to unveil a plan to assist private investors in building 1 [...]
I know you’re probably thinking, “Leonie, didn’t we just have a property boom?” and the answer is yes, we did, and I think the next one isn’t too far away, and I’ll explain why in this blog. If you read one of our most popular blogs on property cycles, you would know that history tends to repeat itself in real estate Right now, the Australian residential property market as a whole [...]
Are you interested in the possibility of not only success but creating financial wellbeing and achieving the ever-elusive happiness? Would you like breakthroughs, not mere insights or improvements, but lasting results that expand and unfold over time. What does it take to be a successful property investor? And a savvy one at that? The answer is simple: there are certain traits that every successful property investor possesses. If you want to be successful in [...]
In a recent blog about property cycles, I explained in depth how there is always an opportunity regardless of what the broader Australian property market may be doing. Right now, there is confusion due to incorrect media reporting about the Australian real estate market. If you ask the average Joe what’s happening in the market right now, you’ll likely receive the answer that property prices are crashing. Yes, there are [...]
Are You Getting a Raw Deal on your Interest Rates? It’s certainly no secret that the Reserve Bank of Australia is lifting interest rates. In the past three consecutive months, interest rates have jumped and so have many people’s mortgage repayments. Most don’t understand that when the Reserve Bank lifts interest rates, the banks don’t necessarily have to pass it on AND some banks may increase it even more than the RBA did themselves. Here’s [...]
Depending on who you ask, the world may be ending as we know it, at least in the property sphere! Property prices in a few cities are declining, and the price growth of 20% for the others has ended. But not all is lost! Last week I wrote in detail about property cycles and what to expect in the future for Australia’s property market, but a conversation with an existing client prompted this [...]
