Interviews with the 1% - Kate Hill
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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....
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Divorce and Dollars: Managing Real Estate and Relationships with Sallyanne Hartnell
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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
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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
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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!
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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
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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
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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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Real Estate Influence on RBA
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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
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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...
info_outlineNew data from two sources confirms that a national real estate boom is under way across Australia. The latest figures from both Domain and CoreLogic record annual growth in house prices in most locations in the nation, but in particular in the latest quarter. CoreLogic’s 1 February price report shows that all 15 market jurisdictions (eight capital cities and seven state regional precincts) recorded uplift in the month of January and in the three months to the end of January. Domain’s price report published last week shows all eight capital cities had significant price increases in 2020, with particularly major uplift in the December Quarter. The CoreLogic figures show quarterly growth of at least 2.4% in all 15 of the major market jurisdictions. That equates to double-digit increases over the coming year if those growth rates are maintained. But 12 of the 15 major markets had quarterly increases ranging from 3.5% to 7.8%. The Domain data shows quarterly rises in house prices ranging from 3% to 6.4% in five of the eight capital cities and equally significant increases throughout many regional locations. The smaller capital cities and the regional markets are leading the growth in house prices. In annual terms, according to CoreLogic, Darwin (15%), Canberra (9.5%), Hobart (8%) and Adelaide (7%) are all out-performing, while the regional markets of Tasmania, South Australia, NSW and Queensland have all increased by between 8% and 12.5%. The growth is being fuelled by multiple factors, including … A stronger-than-expected economy Lower-than-predicted unemployment State and federal stimulus measures Ultra-low vacancies, putting upward pressures on rents and prices Low listings levels, relative to buyer demand The Exodus to Affordable Lifestyle trend Increasing spending on major new infrastructure The return of ex-pat Australians in large numbers The belated entry of investors to compete with owner-occupiers The safety and solidity of bricks and mortar in times of uncertainty Access to low-cost finance And you’ll notice that I mention low interest rates as just one of a dozen different factors – and I mention it last and definitely least. That’s contrary to Australia’s gaggle of chattering economists who seem to think that low interest rates is the only factor causing prices to rise – which, frankly, shows how little the members of that over-rated profession really understand about real estate markets. Bye for now.