WANT TO BE A HOMEOWNER? STOP THINKING LIKE A FIRST HOME BUYER. Everybody wants to buy at the bottom of the market. Here’s why you might want to re-consider your strategy. WHY WAITING FOR PRICES TO CRASH IS COSTING YOU, BIG-TIME. Your borrowing capacity has dropped 35%. House prices have fallen 9% If you want
Owning property has long been referred to as the ‘Great Australian Dream’ and for good reason. It’s a relatively stable, secure investment that has the potential to build financial freedom for you and your family. And whether you choose to invest in the city, suburbs, coast or country areas, you really can’t go wrong! While
Rental markets across the country are as tight as they’ve ever been which is driving up rental prices. However, property investors are also being faced with the sharpest increase in interest rates in decades which is making things equally tough for many owners and hurting their bottom line. As a result, making sure you’re maximising
After spending hours of pandemic-induced time in our homes followed by a refreshing year free from lockdowns, home styling trends are seeing a shake-up! We’ve shed our trackies, shaken off our homebody tendencies, and, as a result, are poised to move on from our soothing colour palettes and cocooning furniture. In 2023, we’re injecting zest,
While we don’t have a crystal ball, we do know where investments and approvals are planned or projected and where population growth is predicted to soar. This gives us a good indication of growth corridors across the country and potential investment hot spots that are well worth keeping an eye on in 2023. Here, we
Auctions are frequently a vendor’s best choice when there is a rising market, but is auction still a safe choice when sentiment turns and buyers have the upper hand? As one of the industry’s leading auctioneers, First National Real Estate’s Chief Auctioneer, Matthew Harvey, makes a persuasive argument that auction is still the best way
Investing in real estate is often touted as an easy, foolproof way to get rich quick. But with terms like passive income, negative gearing, subdivision, and capital gain bandied about, it’s not an investment suited to complete novices. There are several different approaches to making money with property – from a slow and steady approach,
The nation’s weakest rental conditions remain skewed towards higher density markets, especially the cities of Melbourne and Sydney. In Melbourne, the downwards shift in unit rents has been more severe, with rents down -7.6% over the past 12 months. However, rental rates in Melbourne’s apartment sector look to be stabilising, with CoreLogic’s measure of rents
If you’ve been holding off selling your home, for fear of becoming homeless, the market is finally sending the signal you’ve been looking for according to CoreLogic’s latest national home value data. You’d be hard pressed to find anybody in Australia who isn’t aware that it’s a ‘vendor’s market’, and has been since June last