It’s hard to ignore the headlines, which tell you that something is rotten in the Australian residential market. There would hardly be a property investor who is unaware by now that house prices have fallen, in Sydney and Melbourne, down 6.1% in Sydney in September, on the year before, and by 3.4% in Melbourne. This means […]
Summer News Season – Residential Property Drivers (Part 2)
In the second part of our discussion on residential property drivers, we focus on the demand side: population growth, affordability, job creation, foreign investment and regulatory actions. All these will impact property prices through 2018. Population growth is a big factor influencing the property market. According to data released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics […]
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Summer News Season – Residential Property Drivers (Part 1)
A number of drivers are affecting property prices, and these will continue to do so as we enter the first half of 2018. In part 1 of our analysis of residential property drivers, we identify some significant supply and demand drivers. We complete this instalment with a focus on supply side drivers. Property watchers often […]
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Summer News Season – Borrowing & Under-quoting
The residential property market can often be a political football, as various interested groups call for the government or the regulators to “do something” about the market. In the second half of 2017, we’re seeing the effects of governments and regulators “doing something” about the residential property market. Whether those actions were wise […]
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Autumn News Season – Where to from here?
In our final installment of the autumn news season, the question is – where to from here? We summarise the issues affecting the property market in the following year and finish off with an overview of where there’s value and opportunities. Before we get into all that, remember… IT’S ONLY SOCIAL Check Portfolio’s pages […]
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Autumn News Season – Property Management
In the third instalment of our autumn news season, we turn the focus on property management. Autumn has been an exciting time with our expansion of management services into Geelong. We also take a look at assessing tenant applications with no rental history, and finish off with some analysis of changes in the legislation that will affect […]
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Autumn News Season – Economic Drivers
In our second issue of the autumn season, we look at economic drivers affecting the property market, specifically interest rates and the influence of Asian investors. Interest and loans ratios to harden Over the past ten years, interest rates and loan ratios have exerted significant influence on the property market, with the downward pressure on […]
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Autumn News Season – The Market
Welcome to our first autumn news season. Over the next few weeks, we’ll be putting out a series of articles that consider some of the more macro forces that are influencing the property market and the economy in general. We hope you’ll find these articles insightful and thought provoking. Please feel free to contact us on […]
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Airbnb, landlords, and body corporates
Technology and the internet have changed many things and, at times, rules and regulations need to change. The metaphoric rise of the short term accommodation websites are no exception. As discussed recently in our quarterly newsletter, a landlord challenged the right of a tenant to sublet her property for the purposes of short term accommodation. […]
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Rates on hold… for now
The Reserve Bank has left the door open to further interest rate cuts after keeping the cash rate on hold at 2.25 per cent at its March meeting. RBA Governor Glenn Stevens said after the meeting that, having eased monetary policy in February, it was appropriate to hold rates steady for the time being. “Further […]