Keeping the KIPPERS at bay
They may be both the light of your life and your legacy, but today’s kids include a whole new demographic subset that’s having a significant impact on how parental property owners and pending retirees are seeing out t…
What to do in tighter lending conditions
Housing finance is in the news more often than it’s not these days.
One of the reasons is that as capital cities move through their respective cycles so does reporting on the property market.
One day, strong mar…
The perfect first home for your investment portfolio
There are plenty of important considerations when securing your first home.
They range from the deeply personal like, “Are you ready for the responsibility,” to the practical such as, “Can I really service this mor…
Making the most of your first property in Victoria
The old adage goes that you only get one chance to make a good first impression.
When it comes to property investing, your first move can determine the future path that’ll be open to you.
Do well and the world m…
Stumping up a Sydney deposit
Here’s a number for you — 10,950.
Ten thousand, nine hundred and fifty.
That’s how many days a first-time property buyer will have to scrimp and save for a 20 per cent deposit for a place in Sydney.
Not the p…
First-time investing in New South Wales — is it worth it?
The first time you do anything can be challenging — riding a bike, learning to drive or speaking in front of a crowd.
It’s new, unfamiliar and requires a certain element of previous knowledge.
Sometimes you can …
What will drive Brisbane’s property price higher?
Brisbane property investors are proving more loyal than a third-generation Lions supporter.
Since 2010, Brisbane has been your favourite pub band — full of potential, not lacking enthusiasm, but frustratingly unabl…
Is the worst over for Brisbane’s unit market?
If the unit market in Brisbane was a movie, last year’s performance would’ve made anything Quentin Tarantino can serve up look like a Disney classic.
An explosion of new stock caused a dramatic oversupply that caus…