The immediate reaction from investors to the news of Donald Trump’s election was to freak out, evidenced by the volatility in financial markets. Even in Australia, both the share market and the Aussie dollar took a beating. Market commentators blamed uncertainty, as Donald Trump’s
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Results for week ending November 20. Auction volume has nearly returned to last year’s level, as 2,950 home went under the hammer across the combined capital cities this weekend, up from 2,897 last week. Over the corresponding week last year, 3,166 auctions were reported. Although
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How serious are you about becoming a successful property investor? Before you answer this question, think about it for a minute. Investing in property is a big commitment and like anything worthwhile, it takes time to acquire the skills to become successful at it. Now
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These are 13 words that changed my life. Yes, I know it is a cliché to say something changed your life, but so be it, these words did. This one sentence completely changed my investing outlook and took me from being a worker on an
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Auction Results for week ending November 13. Supply increased, but demand surged even more, as the combined capital city preliminary clearance rate shot up to 77.5 percent from last week’s final tally of 73.6 percent. Auction volume swelled from 2,517 last week to 2,843 this
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Against the odds, and contrary to the poll expectation, Donald Trump has won the 2016 US Presidential election.What you may not realise is that the Republican Party (who are the conservatives – like the Liberal Party in Australia) now control the Presidency and the
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News hit the wires two weeks ago that the Federal Liberal Government didn’t like the findings of the Housing Affordability inquiry that it set up, and so it let the enquiry lapse thereby making all the thousands of hours of work, and hundreds of
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The lending environment is changing. In response to rising property values, APRA has increased bank capital requirements and tightened lending standards. How do these changes impact developers? In this video, professional developers Dean Parker and Martin Ayles discuss one of Martin’s recent deals and how
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Results for week ending November 6. The combined capital cities clearance rate was 77.5 percent this week, buoyed by strong demand in Melbourne and Sydney where buyers make haste to sign contracts for a pre-Christmas settlement. It’s now been nearly four months since we’ve seen
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The RBA Board met this week and decided to leave the target cash rate on hold at a record low 1.50 percent. In the monetary policy statement, Philip Lowe came across reluctant to lower rates, so many economists are pushing back their expectations of another
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