Posts by Michael Yardney

Financial Planning, Home buying & selling

As Reserve Bank Governor Philip Lowe warns that Australia’s recovery from recession will be “uneven” and “bumpy”, new data from Roy Morgan shows the financial impact COVID-19 has had on Australians and also shows how people who have suffered negative…

4 key reasons why the property pessimists are changing their minds

October 12, 2020

Home buying & selling, Melbourne

Why were all those property pessimists wrong? In fact, why are they becoming more positive about property? Of course it wasn’t just the usual band of Negative Nellies making dire predictions of significant property price falls earlier this year, it…

What the bad news for airline pilots may mean for you

October 9, 2020

Lifestyle

Just look what’s happened to Qantas and Virgin. Like many other businesses, they are being crushed by the COVID-19 economic slowdown. Qantas lost billions of dollars and has shed thousands of employees. Virgin went broke and similarly its employees, including…

11 Things Successful Property Investors Don’t Do

February 28, 2020

Investing, Lifestyle

Books, blogs and magazines are full of great tips on what to do to become a successful property investor. However today I’d like to look at a number of things successful investors don’t do. 1. They don’t concern themselves that the…

What’s the right strategy for this stage of the property cycle?

January 31, 2020

When it comes to property investment you’ll often hear two conflicting philosophies – invest for capital growth or invest for positive cash flow. We’re in for a long period of low interest rates, low inflation and low wages growth, meaning…

What is the world’s most expensive property market? You need to read this!!

November 28, 2019

What is the world’s most expensive property market? Some of you may have guessed Sydney. And to be fair you are close. Sydney is the 2nd most expensive housing market in the world. However, the clear leader (by far) and the least…

The dos and don’ts of successful investors

September 30, 2019

Investing, Lifestyle

Real estate investing used to be a rather niche industry, confined to the few Australians who had significant reserves of cash and a genuine interest in the property market. These days, you could be forgiven for thinking that everyone is a real…

What happens to property values in a recession?

August 30, 2019

Are we heading for a recession and what would it mean for the property market? That’s a question I was recently asked by Yahoo Finance where I’ve been writing a regular property column for well over a decade. Now that’s…

Housing Affordability the Best it’s Been Since 1999

July 19, 2019