Divorce and Dollars: Managing Real Estate and Relationships with Sallyanne Hartnell
Hotspotting
Join us on this enlightening episode of the Hotspotting podcast, where host Tim Graham welcomes Sallyanne Hartnell from Reflect Coaching. An award-nominated Relationship and Divorce Coach and podcast host of "Reflect, Reclaim & Liberate," Sallyanne is on a mission to transform the divorce experience, helping couples reorganise their lives and family dynamics post-separation with dignity and less drama. In this episode, Sallyanne sheds light on why she might be the professional "no one wants, but many need." We explore the intriguing intersection of divorce and real estate, discussing how...
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Melbourne Property Growth
Hotspotting
There are numerous reasons why we think Melbourne and Victoria is worthy of consideration by property investors, notwithstanding the concerted efforts by the state government and some local councils to force investors to sell up and get as far away from Victoria as possible. Melbourne and Victoria are underpinned by one of the nation’s strongest state economies, according to CommSec’s State of the States report, and there has been a notable uplift in sales activity since the start of 2024, pointing to elevated price growth as the year unfolds. But perhaps the most compelling evidence,...
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First-Home Buyers vs. Investors in the Property Market
Hotspotting
Media loves the storyline that first-home buyers are competing with wealthy investors for properties – and losing because investors apparently have a huge advantage. Like so much that’s written and spoken in news media about the housing market, it’s a work of fiction. The polar opposite is, in fact, the truth. The biggest competition for first-home buyers in the market is not investors, but home buyers other than first-time buyers. The largest cohort in the market, at any point in time, is home buyers who already own a home, have equity in that home and are upgrading – or, in some...
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Location Reports: Your Real Estate Game-Changer!
Hotspotting
If you want to sell real estate, very often the greatest selling point is the location. If the location has … a strong diverse economy creating jobs, a steadily growing population with strong increases projected well into the future, good existing amenities and a significant spend on new infrastructure … then it has many of the credentials for capital growth. The problem for many real estate professionals - in taking advantage of growth factors like that in their location- is accessing all the key information, analysing it and then presenting it in a way that’s easily...
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Webinar Replay - Why Melbourne Makes More Sense Than Perth
Hotspotting
Want to get into a key market BEFORE prices start to take off? Feel that you may have missed the boat with media favourite Perth? In many ways, the answers to these questions are the essence of smart investing. Most property investors are herd animals, diving into markets when they read that prices have risen 15% or 20% in the past year – or 50% in the past three years. Buying in such a market means you are likely buying at – or after – the peak of the market. The smart money would have been there 2-3 years ago – and is now focused on places that are early in the growth cycle....
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Interviews with the 1% - Arjun Paliwal of InvestorKit
Hotspotting
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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Real Estate Influence on RBA
Hotspotting
Part of the obsession by economists with interest rates as the only thing that matters in the housing market is the notion that the Reserve Bank spends a large amount of time discussing the housing market before deciding what to do about interest rates. As with so many things, economists are wrong about that. One of the most popular definitions of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting a different result. My own definition of insanity is the average Australian economist discussing real estate. In essence, those two definitions are essentially the same thing....
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First Home Buyer Activity
Hotspotting
If you tune into news media regularly, it’s easy to form the view that the prospect of young Australians buying real estate is remote, if not impossible. There are daily headlines telling us that it takes 10 or 15 years to save a deposit, or that most young Australians have given up on home ownership and that young adults are doomed to a life-time of renting. As is so often the case with mainstream media and their love of negative sensation, the reality is quite different. First home buyers are highly active in markets across Australia. But first, let’s look at some of headlines with which...
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Home Building Costs
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Want to know why housing affordability is so poor in this country? The answer, in simple terms, is because the cost of building new houses is so high – ridiculously, obscenely high. The cost of building the typical house in Australia has risen 53% in the past three years – and it now costs close to half a million dollars to build that home. And that’s just the cost of the house. It doesn’t include the price of the land. Who’s to blame for this situation? Primarily, overwhelmingly, it’s government. Politicians and bureaucrats. They keep...
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Regional vs. City Growth
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We’re constantly asked at Hotspotting whether it’s better to invest in the regions or the capital cities – and whether you get higher capital growth in the outer-ring suburbs of our cities or the so-called prime inner-city locations. Now, there’s no definitive answer to questions like that, because there are so many different scenarios to consider – and, at the end of the day, it comes down to the performance of individual local markets and you simply cannot generalise. But, based on the evidence of where the highest capital growth has occurred in the past four years, I would have to...
info_outlineSydney markets have defied the pandemic recession, with notable uplift in sales activity and prices in 2020.
Our quarterly survey for the Summer edition of The Price Predictor Index has identified more growth markets than at any time in the six years of these surveys.
In our survey six months ago, we could find only 24 suburbs with rising sales momentum across the Greater Sydney area - and 31 suburbs ranked as declining or danger markets.
Now we find 93 suburbs with rising sales activity - and the number of declining or danger markets has halved.
There are two distinct sectors doing well across the Greater Sydney area: the upper end of the market and the outer-ring areas where first-home buyers and other budget owner-occupiers
have been busy.
The more expensive sector is being led by the Inner West and the Northern Beaches. Other top end precincts with buoyant markets include the municipalities of Woollahra,
Waverley and Randwick. A few tiers below those markets price-wise, Sutherland Shire continues to show signs of
being an up-and-coming market.
The more affordable parts of the Sydney metro area are also buoyant. Out west, the Blacktown and Penrith municipalities both have seven suburbs with rising sales activity,
while in the south-west the Camden and Campbelltown LGAs jointly have 12 rising suburbs.
Our analysis of price trends across the Sydney metro area tells a story of stubborn resistance to the forces of the pandemic.
Most suburbs have delivered growth in their median house prices in the past 12 months – and most also have had growth in the most recent quarter, amid the pandemic period.
So, against that positive background, we have published our new 2021 edition of the Top 5 Sydney Hotspots report.
We’re predicting a nationwide real estate boom in the coming year and we expect Sydney to be part of it.
So have a read of our new Top 5 Sydney report and find out where we think the best places to buy can be found.