It’s common knowledge that many of today’s young first homebuyers are facing significant affordability barriers in certain inner city property markets. Of course most are at that age where they’re also on an upward career trajectory in a professional industry, and seeking job advancement opportunities only afforded in and around our major CBD’s. So how […]

Earlier this year I wrote a piece on the widening wealth gap dividing the UK, suggesting this is an apparently global phenomenon now…even in so-called developing countries that are becoming increasingly westernised. Just think of Chinese factory workers who exist in squalor, while the newfound gentry of the Asian superpower snap up property investments across […]

Prolonged vacancy periods, where your property investment languishes devoid of occupants for weeks at a time, can quickly become problematic when it comes to sustainable cashflow. Logically therefore, you want to avoid this scenario as much as possible and ensure you keep (preferably long term) tenants residing happily in your rental. People are perhaps a […]

This is likely to be the shortest commentary I’ve written in quite some time. The truth is, there’s not a whole lot more to tell when it comes to the story of Governor Glenn Stevens and his beleaguered board of the RBA…until next month’s instalment. This month the cash rate was – yawn – left […]