Australian Property Market Update 3rd July, 2018 One of my clients shared a story with me this week of a recent encounter with a Sydney real estate agent in a rather unlikely place – his Uber to the airport. Unable to bring home enough cash selling homes, this agent
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It seems now that Melbourne and Sydney property markets are declining, the media has finally woken up to what the rest of the country has been feeling for some time – that the glory days of the property market have now passed.In fact, the speed
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Australian Property Market Update 5th June, 2018 Housing Supply and DemandSellers were left out in the cold last week, as only 56.2 percent of auctions across the country found a winning bidder. The combined capital city clearance rate has grown progressively worse over the past month, falling to
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We have seen some significant changes over the past few months in the policies relating to home loan lending, which is having a big impact on how much investors can borrow. The most significant change is related to how lenders are calculating applicants living expenses.Until
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The Australian Financial Review has reported that Morgan Stanley, an investment bank, is expecting residential property prices to be negatively affected by changing expectations and credit availability, resulting in a percentage value decline in the “high single digits”.It raises the question of ‘what might happen
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Australian Property Market Update 1st May, 2018 Where is the property market headed? What does that mean for a buy-and-hold for capital growth strategy?Before you can properly answer those questions, there’s a more fundamental question you should be considering.But first, here’s a microeconomic update on auction clearance rates
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Not long ago, when the Great Australian Dream was to own a house, units were sometimes considered as second-class accommodation options; the preferred domain of the ‘downsizer’, or for those who could only afford a watered-down version of the ‘full’ dream.Times have well and truly
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Australian Property Market Update 10th April, 2018 Key Highlights:As fewer capital city buyers step up to bid on homes at auction, pressure is mounting on sellers to lower price expectations.Prices are falling in Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide, while Brisbane and Perth are standing strong with modest growth.Expensive, prestige properties
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Australian Property Market Update March 1, 2018 Key Highlights:Auction supply spiked to well above 3000 for the first time this calendar year.Only Melbourne managed to clear more than 70 percent of auctions this week.Home prices have fallen over 1 percent for the quarter across the aggregate of
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Last weekend I delivered my first, last and only 1-day Perth seminar to a packed room of savvy property investors.During the morning session, I provided a comprehensive snapshot of the WA property market using six ‘market snapshot optics’ so as to conclude whether current economic
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