Gavin ChauLeave a comment
There is no new thing under the sun, but that we simply resurrect the old ones. ‘How do I forecast future cycles?’ You may ask. In order to forecast future cycles, the most important thing is to begin right, for if we have the right beginning, we will get the right ending.
Luke GrahamLeave a comment
From June 2020 to April 2021, the number of detached houses approved for development each month nearly doubled from 8,347 to 15,134. A key driver of this was the HomeBuilder grant, as well as other stimulus offered up to keep the Australian economy buoyant during the pandemic. Approvals of attached dwellings (such as townhouses and apartments) haven’t seen the same radical upswing, which means the bulk of new housing supply is made up of houses.
Luke GrahamLeave a comment
The Foreign Investment Review Board recently released their annual report. It shows that $17.1 billion of foreign investment over 7,056 transactions was approved in the 2019-20 financial year—the end of which included the onset of the coronavirus pandemic. These figures reflect a $2.3 billion increase on the previous financial year, but a decrease in the number of transactions. This means the average transaction size approved by FIRB increased from $1.97 million in FY 2018-19 to $2.42 million in FY 2019-20.
Roy AzziLeave a comment
With the market going from strength to strength, many people look at ‘opportunities’ in less desirable and non-research approved markets.
Joshua MellickLeave a comment
The Sunshine Coast is in a severe undersupply.
Helen MatsoukasLeave a comment
For us Melbournians, the past 17 months have played out like an amalgamation of the movie Contagion and Groundhog Day, but in a mini-series. A mini-series that really should have ended at season two, but for many opinionated reasons that I can’t share in under five minutes, continued to season four.
Luke GrahamLeave a comment
Since the 2020 interest rate drops, speculation has arisen around how and when interest rates could return to an upward trajectory. We haven’t seen this from the RBA since November 2010, but with a cash rate of 0.1 percent, is there anywhere else for it to go?
Roy AzziLeave a comment
In very recent times, Brisbane has finally started delivering on its long-anticipated price growth. The market is stronger than I can remember, with median house prices in many suburbs increasing by over $100,000. If you are holding an investment property in Brisbane, I know it has been frustrating over the past couple of years. Trust me, I am personally invested in Brisbane and so are many of my colleagues. We are now about to experience our biggest uplift in recent times.
Luke GrahamLeave a comment
Back in 2014, our research team undertook a field trip to Melbourne in search of competitive markets which bucked the Melbournian trend of undersized and poorly designed homes. One market that stood out to us was Footscray—a suburb many locals overlooked because of its slower rate of gentrification.
Luke GrahamLeave a comment
A few weeks ago, we discussed the case of a property investor in Brisbane who grew frustrated by a two-year period of weak performance in his asset and sold it for a loss—only for this positively geared asset to grow in value by 10 percent over the following 15 months. There are many cases of this around the country, with CoreLogic reporting 10.1 percent of properties being sold at a loss in Q4 2020. Data shows those most at risk are investors who only hold their asset for a short-term period (less than four years).
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