Depreciation Impact
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The report we call The Pulse provides critical intelligence for property investors because it shows how you can get both a high rental yield and excellent capital growth if you choose your location well. Recent editions of The Pulse have featured locations where rents have grown 10-15-20% in a year, but so have property values – providing the ultimate win-win-win situation for property investors. Hotspotting produces this report in association with leading national experts on property depreciation, Washington Brown – who provide additional key elements to the data in this report. The...
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Victoria Gets Worse
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Victoria has become the state that property investors don’t want to know about, because its politicians at both state and local level appear to have declared open season on investors. The State Government in Victoria has a budget deficit problem and has made the decision that many politicians in Australia make, which is to resort to the housing market as their favourite cash cow. They can’t slug home-owners or first-home buyers with new or higher taxes because that’s politically unpalatable – but investor owners are relatively few in number so they can attack them with less damage...
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Affordability Deception
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There are many so-called research reports in Australia which do a very poor job of providing useful, accurate, credible information to consumers – but the worst of the worst is a report called Demographia which pops up once every year to misinform Australians about affordability. This report, which is a shameless propaganda exercise by a developer lobby group, sets out to portray Australia as a place where no one – and I do mean no one – can afford to buy real estate. The lobby group is apparently trying to convince governments across Australia that the development industry is...
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No Money Down Investing with Lucky Velasquez
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In this episode of "No Money Down: Smart Property Investment," Tim Graham is joined by Lucky Velasquez, the founder of FinanceBetter, to discuss innovative strategies for property investment with minimal initial capital outlay. Lucky shares his extensive experience in helping clients navigate financial hurdles and maximise their investment potential without the need for large upfront deposits. Key Topics Covered: Introduction to No Money Down Investing: What it means to invest with little to no initial capital. Common misconceptions about no-money-down strategies. Creative...
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Interviews with the 1% - Melinda Jennison
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Are you ready to take your investment journey to the next level? Look no further, because we have exciting news to share with you! We are thrilled to announce our new Hotspotting pre-recorded interviews with some of the top 1% of Australian investors who own 5 or more properties. As you may know, in the 2020-2021 financial year, only 0.87% of investors in Australia owned 5 or more investment properties. But what do these successful investors know that the majority don't? We have sat down with a number of them to get exclusive insights into their strategies, tips, and personal journeys. Our...
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NSW Investor Boom
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The latest lending data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics finds that loans to investors in New South Wales in April represented a 44% increase on the same time last year. That’s a major jump in buyer demand, but it does not surprise the team at Hotspotting, particularly after the analysis we have done on market trends for the Winter edition of The Price Predictor. Our research shows there is heightened buyer activity in selected locations, both in Sydney and in Regional NSW. The Price Predictor Index finds that some of the nation’s regional areas are the leading markets in the...
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Why Builders Aren't Building
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Home builders and property developers make their money creating new dwellings for Australian households. If they get it right, they can make lots of money doing what they do. When they decide NOT to do what they do, you have to ask why. Why are the builders of major projects of housing or apartments walking away from their plans? Why are big companies who have spent years and millions of dollars planning a major project making the decision not to build it? We’ve seen many instances recently. An example is the decision by AVJennings to abandon a major housing development near Caboolture in...
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Investor Lending
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Home loans to property investors jumped for a third-straight month in April, rising at a faster pace than loans to owner-occupiers. The value of new loans to investors rose 5.6% to $10.9 billion in April, to be up 36% compared with a year ago, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics. Part of that increase, according to the ABS, is an increase in the size of the average loan. The average size of an investor loan for the purchase of an existing home grew almost 10% since April 2023, from $592,000 to $648,000. The strongest markets were New South Wales (where investor lending increased...
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Australia's Top Growth Suburbs Revealed!
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Where’s the strongest suburb for future price growth in Australia? What’s the most consistent location for sales activity in the nation and therefore likely to deliver superior price growth? And what’s the absolute worst place to buy real estate right now? The answers to all those questions and a whole lot more are revealed in the new Winter edition of The Price Predictor Index. Now, we publish a lot of great reports with unique insights into property markets across Australia - but this is undoubtedly our best report. The thing that’s so special about this report is that we do...
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Price Predictor Index Winter Edition is Out Now!
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I’m about to tell you what’s going to happen with property prices this year and I’m going to tell you why. The information real estate buyers MOST want to know is where to buy for superior capital growth, both in the short term and the long term. The problem for investors is that the research companies and the media don’t tell us that. They tell us what’s recently happened with property prices. They inform us about the past. And while that may be interesting, it doesn’t provide us with the really key information: what will happen with prices in the future. That’s where...
info_outlineThe latest price data shows uplift in most cities and regional markets across the nation - and Brisbane increasingly is standing out.