General

Every second, worldwide there are 63,000 Google searches, that’s 5.6 billion a day and I’m sure that like me, you’ve used Google to answer almost any sort of question, on …
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‘APRA’ may well have been a name that was not very familiar to a majority of Australian homebuyers, that is until recently. Today however, APRA along with interest rates, house …
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Over the last twelve-months there’s been a great deal of comment on how important a part confidence plays in the residential property market. It’s a topic that demands constant vigilance.

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Cities are complex places and even though they have been around for at least 6,000 years we are still working hard to get them just right. Cities and how they …
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Picking up from last week, the FIRB Annual Report 2017-18 includes this comment; ‘Australia’s foreign investment policy encourages foreign investment in the residential real estate sector, which is expected to …
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Looking back a little over 3-years ago, would be foreign investors in local residential property were the reprobates of the Australian housing market. Foreign investors became the targets for a …
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Although housing affordability is improving, expensive markets like Sydney and Melbourne are still showing a high entry point relative to incomes and so we are seeing the housing market evolve …
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Forecasts and hindsight are both interesting subjects, and that’s equally so when looking at our residential property markets.

Not that long ago, just back in early December 2018, I made …
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For many of us, including pollsters and some commentators, the result of Saturday’s Federal Election came as a surprise. However, I for one was not that surprised and as I …
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On Sunday morning most Australians will be picking over the ramifications of the election results and no matter if the outcome was a quick win for one party, or a …
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