According to The Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA), the average income a retired couple requires to live out their golden years in ‘comfort’ is just shy of $59,000 per annum. Of course if you don’t particularly want to do much living once you finally escape the nine to five grind, you could eek […]

When you look at the enviable levels of economic growth Sydney has enjoyed in recent times, with Melbourne hot on its heels, it’s hardly surprising to see a distinct widening of the great urban divide in our country of late. Growing employment opportunities in and around our city centres naturally mean more people wanting (and […]

Wouldn’t it be nice if life were simple? None of us running around, wondering where the next dollar and minute might come from…the ones we’ve already spent and the ones yet to be flittered away in the hectic pace of modern life? Alas, it seems the way we live has reached dizzying new heights of […]

With virtually every Australian property market riding an ever-rising renewal in real estate enthusiasm, it can be tough to identify so-called ‘hotspots’ these days; locations ripe for the investment picking, that others are yet to start getting really active in. That’s not to say they don’t exist of course. Indeed, these types of emerging markets […]