Property News and Media

The rental crisis is headline in our national media stories, and sadly it’s not going to get better soon. The Housing Accord Australia progress is questionable at best, hampered by a combination of higher materials costs and a skills shortage in the building sector. Despite the best of intentions, we are not on track to…

For decades, economists’ predictions have hit the newsfeeds and influenced forecasting, opinion and buyer/seller behaviour. But how often do they get it right? Over the last twenty years in particular, (a familiar time for many of us as property investors), we have watched the negative news headlines come in waves throughout the post-Keating era, The…

What would shoe shop owners do if the government walked into their store and said, “Whatever environmental and financial pressures you face, you cannot increase the cost of this pair of shoes for two years?” And what would share investors do if the government ran a pencil over their share portfolio and said “whatever the…

The title may sound surprising, but this isn’t the first time our coal face has felt quite different to what’s being reported. Sometimes data is lagged and the pace of change isn’t yet showing in the data, but this time is a little bit different. Our supply and demand ratio is lower than past months,…

This topic comes up so often, particularly with buyers who are new to Australia, or unfamiliar with the quirks of Victorian auction rules. The relationship between the auction quote range and the vendor’s reserve is nil. So many people misunderstand the legal rules though, and in particular the fact that our legislation does not require…

Last week I was pondering the impact of the recent ANZ bank economist headline, suggesting that property prices are about to decline by 20%. We’ve seen and heard these headlines through the cycles, and I cast my memory back to some of the fearful advice I received when I started out in property investing all…