Property News and Media

Many people don’t properly understand what Capital Gains Tax and Negative Gearing actually mean, or how each are formulated. With budget night rumour flying, it’s prudent to assume that both are going to change soon. The Albanese government may have entered their second term with a promise that “negative gearing changes were ‘off the table’”,…

In my role as a buyer’s agent, I’m often asked why I rarely recommend brand-new property to my clients. It’s a fair question. New homes look appealing, they represent low-maintenance, and the marketing around them is very persuasive. But after nearly two decades of buying property for clients, I’ve learned that brand-new means more risk,…

Back in 2019, I blogged about a lovely couple who were struggling to find a well-located, nicely renovated, four-bedroom home in Yarraville. They said they’d been searching for many months and the right house just hadn’t come along. I explained to them, “Many inner-ring suburbs in Melbourne, particularly in the inner-north and inner-west are problematic for people…

Over recent decades, Australian property investors have been accustomed to houses outperforming units. But recent data challenges this. Have the tables turned? Or is this merely a glitch? The gap between house and unit median prices widened around a decade ago, and for any investors who held apartments over this time, they will know all…

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,…