Posted in The Australian on 21st February 2012 by Terry Ryder
It sounds like a good thing. Six of the top 10 building and population hotspots in Australia are in the Melbourne metropolitan area, with two more just outside the top 10. But what it describes is…
Posted in The Australian on 16th February 2012 by Terry Ryder
The key to succeeding in real estate is understanding linkages. A residential property market in a capital city can grow because of events thousands of kilometers away. A regional town may prosper…
Posted in News Items on 16th February 2012 by Terry Ryder
New vacancy figures indicate Sydney’s vacancy rate is the highest since August 2006 – but remains below 2% and is expected to tighten from March onwards. The Real Estate Institute of NSW…
Posted in Investment Strategies on 15th February 2012 by Michael Matusik
Let’s have some good news. Yes, there is some out there. It isn’t making the headlines, but it is out there nevertheless. Here are seven positive points to help you make it…
Posted in The Australian on 11th February 2012 by Terry Ryder
The world order is changing and the re-shaping has great relevance for Australian real estate.It may not be readily apparent why office construction in the Chinese city of Chongqing makes Perth…
Posted in Feature Articles on 10th February 2012 by Terry Ryder
Lenders will be relying on “customer inertia” if they decide to raise their interest rates regardless of the Reserve Bank’s decisions, according to financial comparison website…
Posted in The Australian on 9th February 2012 by Terry Ryder
It’s difficult to imagine a Queensland region with higher levels of investment than Gladstone but the Mackay-Isaac-Whitsunday (MIW) region has managed it.The latest figures from the Regional…
Posted in News Items on 8th February 2012 by Terry Ryder
Borrowers are being encouraged to demand a rate cut from their lenders, despite the Reserve Bank's decision yesterday to keep the official cash rate unchanged at 4.25%. Financial comparison…
Posted in The Australian on 4th February 2012 by Terry Ryder
One of real estate’s dominant paradigms – that detached out-performs attached – needs further overall.The evidence of apartments challenging houses on price and rental growth has…
Posted in News Items on 7th February 2012 by Terry Ryder
The extraordinary ability of economists to collectively get in wrong most of the time has again been demonstrated, with the Reserve Bank deciding at its meeting today to keep interest rates on…
Posted in Feature Articles on 1st February 2012 by Terry Ryder
American analysts have an unnatural obsession with our real estate prices. There’s a growing list of US evangelists presenting themselves as experts on our property markets – from a…
Posted in News Items on 1st February 2012 by Terry Ryder
The decline in prices in Australia’s capital cities has pretty much bottomed, based on data for the December Quarter from various research sources. The Australian Bureau of Statistics today…
Posted in The Australian on 28th January 2012 by Terry Ryder
Queensland has just announced an extension of its Building Boost Grant scheme – not because it’s working well, but because it isn’t.So few people have taken up the $10,000 grants to…
Posted in The Australian on 26th January 2012 by Terry Ryder
My last column for 2011 analysed “the Year of the Furphy”. Fittingly, the year ended with publication of a report that advanced one of great furphies of Australian real estate, the…
Posted in News Items on 26th January 2012 by Terry Ryder
Australia’s mortgage market is gearing for a busier year, a new analysis by financial comparison site RateCity suggests, confirming my expectation of a stronger and brigher year in real…
Posted in Feature Articles on 25th January 2012 by Michael Matusik
This Missive is likely to get me shot, and mostly likely with both barrels - but the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games is likely to do more damage than good. It is an absolute waste of money and…
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VIC: Melbourne’s south-eastern suburbsThe hallmark of an Ugly Duckling hotspot is (1) plenty of reasons to deter investors, and (2) clear drivers of future change, converting the area into a goo…
New vacancy figures indicate Sydney’s vacancy rate is the highest since August 2006 – but remains below 2% and is expected to tighten from March onwards. The Real Estate Institute of NSW …
Lenders will be relying on “customer inertia” if they decide to raise their interest rates regardless of the Reserve Bank’s decisions, according to financial comparison website RateC…
It sounds like a good thing. Six of the top 10 building and population hotspots in Australia are in the Melbourne metropolitan area, with two more just outside the top 10. But what it describes is th…
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