Our property guides explore a wide variety of subjects – from buying and selling a home, to property investment, renting and finance.
Like everyone else, tenants value their time – and personally inspecting rental properties is time-consuming. That means listings need to give them all the information they need to decide if the property is suitable before they hop in the car to take a look. And yet many listings fall short, to the disadvantage of the owners ...
Most of us have heard about the concept of compound growth, the snowballing effect caused by growth upon growth. The anecdotes associated with this term tend to be mildly interesting but not particularly useful in a practical sense. What does it mean when it comes to an investment portfolio? ...
With the media focused on ‘doom and gloom’ for the property market over the past few weeks, Craig Mackenzie, who heads up RP Data’s corporate services division, takes us through the key drivers in the market. He explains that history and statistics tells us that there are two key drivers to the housing and related mortgage finance markets
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According to leading property industry analyst and economic forecaster, BIS Shrapnel, the momentum in price growth that recently emerged is expected to continue to support prices in the forthcoming year but to a lesser extent in 2015/16. However, rising construction and the potential for oversupply in many markets will impact on prices ...
I've been arguing for a long time that New South Wales will be Australia's star economy of the coming decade. There are a number of reasons for that, including Sydney becoming a world class financial hub for Asia, and the harbour city becoming a self-sustaining jobs magnet, resulting in population growth and increased economic activity ...
The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) recently released statistics relating to claims made by Australian property investors for the 2011-2012 income year which illustrated that a number of owners of rental properties are entitled to a number of deductions when they complete their annual income tax assessment ...
