If you’re a bit of a data fanatic, no doubt you’ve recently read that some of Australia’s residential rental markets are not performing as well as investors might like. Experts are blaming a saturation of stock, particularly in and around our major city centres, where a glut of new apartment construction has seen a tsunami of […]

With smaller Aussie lenders taking the opportunity to compete against the big boys for investor based business – thanks in large part to a door left wide open by AFSA’s regulatory moves late last year – some who may have thought themselves out of the real estate running are suddenly back in the race. Not […]

In property circles, there are those who would deny the reality of Australia’s so-called ‘affordability crisis’. They’ll tell you that it was just as tricky for your grandparents to acquire their first home way back when, as it is for the youth of today. But the truth is, we live in a far more complicated […]

I talk a lot about asset selection. Probably because it’s important. And it’s important for more than one reason. In the first instance, if you fail to identify a property that can prove its worth in your portfolio, it’s unlikely you’ll obtain the necessary mortgage to acquire it, or manage to comfortably service it for […]