Posted in Feature Articles on 16th May 2013 by Terry Ryder
Markets that were previously struggling are being lifted by investment from highly-paid mine workers. Some coastal locations - in Queensland and Western Australia in particular – have…
Posted in Feature Articles on 8th May 2013 by Terry Ryder
Seven of the eight capital cities now have house price levels higher than a year ago, according to the March Quarter house price indexes from the ABS. The weighted average of the eight state and…
Posted in Feature Articles on 3rd May 2013 by Terry Ryder
Journalists display an extraordinary craving for declaring the resources boom dead. And in their desire to write what they presumably think is “a good story”, they’re very casual…
Posted in Feature Articles on 24th April 2013 by Terry Ryder
I will be guest speaker at two free Melbourne seminars hosted by Quest Properties next week - on 30 April and 1 May. I will be speaking about the methods I use to identify real estate hotspots, with…
Posted in Feature Articles on 19th April 2013 by Terry Ryder
It’s been a long time coming, but the Sunshine Coast has finally made it to the Hotspotting list of prime suspects. I’ve been a long-time resident of the Sunshine Coast region but have…
Posted in Feature Articles on 24th April 2013 by Terry Ryder
I will be guest speaker at two free Melbourne seminars hosted by Quest Properties next week - on 30 April and 1 May. I will be speaking about the methods I use to identify real estate hotspots, with…
Posted in Feature Articles on 11th April 2013 by Terry Ryder
It’s Perth and Darwin equal first and daylight second, when it comes to growth in house rents in the capital cities. Perth and Darwin have both recorded 22% growth in median house rents in the…
Posted in Feature Articles on 6th April 2013 by Terry Ryder
Many property investors scour the country for value-adding opportunities in residential property. While most look for houses ripe for renovation, the serious money can be made from situations that…
Posted in Feature Articles on 2nd April 2013 by Terry Ryder
In one of my current seminar presentations, I throw up a slide of data about Darwin with the comment: “Here’s what a boom market looks like.” The numbers tumbling out of Darwin and…
Posted in Feature Articles on 21st March 2013 by Terry Ryder
The average residential vacancy rate across the capital cities remained at 1.9% in February. SQM Research says the rate was the same as in January, with little major change in any of the eight…
Posted in Feature Articles on 7th March 2013 by Terry Ryder
Housing affordability continues to improve, with the proportion of income needed to meet loan repayments at its lowest level since the December Quarter of 2009. The latest Adelaide Bank/REIA Housing…
Posted in Feature Articles on 22nd February 2013 by Terry Ryder
Three lenders cut some of their variable interest rates in the past week. Unsurprisingly, they did not include the major banks, but financial comparison website RateCity says it is “the start…
Posted in Feature Articles on 11th February 2013 by Terry Ryder
Dubbo’s property market is delivering steady sales activity and growth in house prices, according to a PRDnationwide research report. Research analyst Oded Reuveni-Etzioni says the median…
Posted in Feature Articles on 2nd February 2013 by Terry Ryder
The latest data from Australian Property Monitors supports the notion of price recovery in our capital cities in the latter part of 2012. All eight cities recorded growth in their median house…
Posted in Feature Articles on 22nd January 2013 by Michael Matusik
Anyone claiming the Australian resources economy is over had better think again. There are about 90 committed resource projects across Australia – greater than the average number of such…
Posted in Feature Articles on 15th January 2013 by Michael Matusik
There are just over nine million private dwellings across Australia. At any one time about 85% or 7.8 million of them are occupied on a full-time basis. Of these 7.8 million occupied…
Posted in Feature Articles on 2nd January 2013 by Terry Ryder
Reserve Bank Governor Glenn Stevens does not think Australian house prices are unreasonably high and does not believe they will crash. Not does he agree that we have a price bubble. A transcript of…
Posted in Feature Articles on 11th December 2012 by Michael Matusik
Mackay is another of Australia’s regional centres that, upon examination, surprises on the upside. Once known simply as the unofficial sugar capital of Australia, this relaxed tropical city…
Posted in Feature Articles on 6th December 2012 by Terry Ryder
Many Australians feel confident about buying real estate as investors over the next 1-2 years, which most believing prices will rise or remain stable, according to the Consumer Sentiment Survey by…
Posted in Feature Articles on 27th November 2012 by Michael Matusik
The town of Gladstone has seen a dramatic transformation from sleepy hollow to major industrial city in just under 20 years. What was once little more than a charming coastal village is beginning to…
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Perth's property markets have surged in the early part of 2013, as price growth returns to the Western Australia capital for the first time since 2007. WA is Australia's leading boom st…
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Northern Territory Katherine has a solid track record of economic prosperity and real estate growth, despite its isolation and tendency to experience major flood events. Its economy has diversity, wi…
Australia’s dominance of iron ore trade is set to rise. The nation will soon become the world’s largest exporter of gas. Investment in coal is projected to rise and remain strong at least …
Markets that were previously struggling are being lifted by investment from highly-paid mine workers. Some coastal locations - in Queensland and Western Australia in particular – have experienc…
The Housing Industry Association has embarked on a national program of misinformation. In doing so, it is set to confirm its reputation as the least credible and most ineffectual of the bodies claimin…
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