As reports emerge that Chinese nationals are going so far as to divorce in a bid to dodge regulatory controls on the amount of overseas property assets they can own, concerns are growing locally around continuing foreign buyer activity. Seemingly unperturbed by lending restrictions imposed by both Chinese and local banks, Asian investors are finding […]

Unless you’ve been residing under your own little rock for the last five years, you’ll know that Sydney folk are experiencing some fairly standard conundrums that coincide with a runaway housing market. The basis for all the disequilibrium is of course an ongoing imbalance, where demand for housing far exceeds supply. Ironically, the phenomenal price […]

Money. We need it, so we work for it. Mostly. When we can. We work hard, the majority of us for forty plus years, with a view to one day retiring and ‘living the good life’…or something like that. For some of us, retirement is the promise of more. More time to ourselves to do […]

Australian property investors have been relatively fortunate when it comes to our residential rental markets…unless of course, you bought into a speculative mining region that’s no longer sustaining much human life. While there have been a few supply/demand ups and downs and some fluctuating vacancy rates, most landlords have enjoyed the luxury of being quite […]