As rental increases fall further behind rising house prices, more property investors are feeling the pinch when it comes to adequate cashflow to sustain their housing portfolios. Thank goodness for our virtually all-forgiving, ongoing low interest rate environment, which has kept holding costs relatively affordable, even as yields decline. According to the latest CoreLogic data, […]

Anyone would think human beings have short-term memory loss. Less than a decade ago, the world transitioned into a new fiscal era, ushered in on the back of a crippling global financial crisis that meant the end for some, and a new beginning for others. Stepping aside as the recognised world superpower due to a […]

As Sydneysiders are forced ever outwards from the CBD in search of affordable property, an increasing number of Melbourne suburbs are joining the ranks of residential housing with million dollar plus price tags. Homebuyers in Sydney are travelling up to 40 kilometres from the city centre in order to find a suburb where median house […]

Is it time to rethink the way we construct and maintain residential habitats in the modern age? With a mould epidemic of plague proportions seemingly underway across most of the globe, impacting more and more people’s health, it might just be. The silent mould malaise Mould is a fungus that flourishes under damp conditions, commonly […]