National Top 10 Ugly Duckling Hotspots

The Ugly Duckling suburbs have become the most important locations in metropolitan real estate. Affordability problems are the market's biggest issue,  placing increasing focus on the cheaper areas of our major cities.

Buyers continue to focus on areas which may not be their first choice but which provide housing at attainable prices. Research shows that these cheaper areas show higher capital growth than the so-called "better" suburbs close to the inner city (this is the case in every major Australian city, with the exception of Sydney).

The areas I term the Ugly Ducklings are those that provide affordable housing and strong economic drivers to underpin growth in values. They are the areas with the best potential to evolve into real estate swans.

To discover our tips for the affordable areas most likely to out-perform, buy the National Top 10 Ugly Duckling Hotspots report.

It explains why Ugly Duckling areas are likely to attract the market's attention and why the nominated areas are worthy of investors' consideration. It contains 68 pages of information and comment on the Ugly Duckling areas expected to out-perform.

Customers who bought an earlier version of this report should note that the updating process has made only minor changes to the recommended hotspots - but has injected the latest facts and figures into the report.