Hotspotting

Uncovering hot property markets, today. Hotspotting has always been about helping investors find the best location to buy based on quality research. The Hotspotting Podcast is a Real Estate Property Investment show and delivers this information and more! In each episode Terry Ryder from Hotspotting will bring you knowledge and interesting conversation on everything a property buyer wants and needs to know to make informed decisions. From unravelling the latest data, trends and market statistics, discussing areas of growth and the bigger issues influencing Australia’s property landscape. Whether you're a seasoned property investor or you're buying your first home, we’re here to build your knowledge. Knowledge gives you the power to make smarter investment choices. About Terry Ryder Terry Ryder is the founder of hotspotting.com.au. For over 35 years, Terry Ryder has been a specialist researcher/writer on residential property in Australia. In 2006 he created Hotspotting.com.au to help investors find the best places to buy. Terry’s reports and commentary are based quality data and information. His views are totally independent and free of vested interests or outside influences.

Exodus to Affordable Lifestyle 07/30/2021

Why Investors Should Follow The Infrastructure Trail 07/26/2021

Buy In Haste, Repent At Leisure 07/21/2021

Why Australian property investors increasingly are thinking Queensland. 07/13/2021

A Buyer’s Agent’s practical tips on successfully purchasing in a hyperactive market 07/08/2021

The Exodus to Affordable Lifestyle 06/24/2021

Most Frequently Asked Questions: Depreciation Edit 06/24/2021

Adelaide Market Takes Another Leap Forward On Sales And Prices 06/11/2021

Selecting the RIGHT Property for YOU 06/10/2021

How To Buy With Finance In A Hot Market! 06/03/2021

Top 5 Sydney Hotspots 05/31/2021

Hotspot in Focus- South East Queensland 05/20/2021

Cheapies with Prospects 05/13/2021

Why Now Is A Great Time For Brisbane Landlords 05/12/2021

When everywhere is having a price boom, how do you choose where to buy? 05/01/2021

The New Home Concept That Doubles Investor Returns 05/01/2021

Top 5 Perth Hotspots - April 2021 04/22/2021

Top 5 Perth Hotspots - April 2021 The long-awaited upsurge in the Perth market is upon us. Perth has transformed from recovery to boom in the space of a few months, with a doubling in the number of suburbs with rising markets. Our Summer 2020-21 survey of sales activity identified 59 rising suburbs across Perth, the highest in the six years we have been conducting our quarterly surveys. But our latest (Autumn 2021) survey finds that the number has doubled to 118 suburbs, a remarkable change in just three months. This uplift in buyer activity is being reinforced by other data, including very low vacancy rates, rising rents and increasing levels of price growth. This avalanche of strong, positive statistics coming out of the Perth market coincides with the publication of our new edition of the Top 5 Perth Hotspots report. It reveals that rising markets are spread right across the Perth metropolitan area and include a broad range of price points. But the greatest momentum is at the affordable end of the market, with strength also evident in middle-market areas. The LGA of Wanneroo in the far north has 14 rising suburbs, driven by first-home buyers and other owner-occupiers on a budget. Many are suburbs with median prices in the $300,000s and $400,000s. The City of Stirling, which regularly features in these reports, also has 14 rising suburbs. Stirling is a middle-ring LGA with a wide range of suburbs with different price points. The significant upturn in sales activity recently is starting to translate into price performance. In the past 12 months, 60% of Perth suburbs have recorded growth in their median house prices, but in the most recent quarter 78% have had price increases. I expect this momentum in Perth prices to continue and it’s noteworthy that most forecasters expect Perth house prices to increase 10% or 15% in the next 12 months. To find out the best places to buy in this strongly rising market, get yourself a copy our new Top 5 Perth Hotspots report and have a read today. /episode/index/show/hotspotting/id/18820967

Top 10 Victoria Hotspots 04/14/2021

The Ryder Report April 2021 04/14/2021

The Ryder Report April 2021 One of the best ways to analyse and understand the nationwide real estate boom that’s currently sweeping Australia is to read Hotspotting’s bi-monthly newsletter, The Ryder Report. This is a 25-page report which covers events and topics relevant to all corners of Australia. And in this new April 2021 edition I explore some of the core issues, including the likely impact if the Reserve Bank changes its mind and decides to lift the official interest rate. There’s a lot of media speculation about whether or not the RBA will lift the cash rate – despite its repeated statements that it won’t change the rate until 2024 at the earliest – and what the likely impact would be if it did so. One of the reasons why economists and journalists are so fixated on the possible impact of an interest rate rise is because they think that low interest rates are the cause of the boom. But they’re wrong. It’s not. There are multiple strong reasons why we have this strong nationwide upcycle. I have 15 dot points on my list of growth drivers and in this edition of The Ryder Report I list those reasons. Also in this edition of The Ryder Report, we publish excerpts of a report written by the man I regard as Australia’s best real estate research analyst, Simon Pressley of . He says that Australia has the best conditions for capital growth in 15-20 years and that it’s likely that property values will double in this five-year growth phase. And there’s a whole lot more in this edition of The Ryder Report. We analyse prices, we refute recent examples of media misinformation, we highlight specific growth markets, we provide special tips for investors, and we provide a state-by-state review of all the major events and issues in residential property across the nation. So make sure you get your copy of the April edition of The Ryder Report, to ensure that you are fully-informed about the great Australian real estate boom. /episode/index/show/hotspotting/id/18717077

Beyond Locations: Investment Fundamentals for a Portfolio Grade Strategy 04/14/2021

Australia’s Infrastructure-led Property Boom: National Top 10 Hotspots 03/25/2021

Australia’s Infrastructure-led Property Boom: National Top 10 Hotspots Federal and state political leaders intend to generate an infrastructure-led economic recovery in Australia. This will turbocharge the residential property boom which is already well under way across the nation. Infrastructure spending is always a key driver of growth in residential property markets and government plans to fast-track shovel-ready projects will enhance the established trend of rising markets in many parts of Australia. The research conducted daily by the Hotspotting team places considerable emphasis on announcements of major new infrastructure developments. The best places to invest have impact from infrastructure in two key ways: 1 Existing infrastructure (public transport, schools, medical services, retail outlets, etc) and 2 Spending on new infrastructure. New infrastructure is particularly influential on generating growth in residential property markets. Our belief is that no other factor impacts property markets as strongly as major new infrastructure spending. That impact occurs both during construction and after the facility is completed. Infrastructure such as new motorways, rail links, hospitals and universities improve the amenity and desirability of the locations directly impacted. These projects generate major economic activity and employment – and from that flows demand for real estate. From 2013 to 2017 both Sydney and Melbourne had significant real estate booms, but this was not replicated in other parts of Australia. During that period, the markets in Perth and Darwin were in reverse, and those in Brisbane, Adelaide and Canberra were largely stagnating. The fundamental difference - between the markets that were booming and those that were not - was the infrastructure spend. Both Sydney and Melbourne were investing tens of billions of dollars on new infrastructure. As a consequence, the economies of the two biggest cities were strong, as a time when the other cities were weak or in decline. We have seen major infrastructure spending transform local economies and their property markets in many significant regional cities across Australia. Projects totalling more than $20 billion have transformed the Sunshine Coast from a tourist town to an international city and it currently has one of the strongest property markets anywhere in Australia. Newcastle, Geelong and Wollongong are all regional cities which have transitioned by older-style economies based on manufacturing to prosperous modern economies through spending on new infrastructure and the generation of new employment sectors. Growth property markets have emerged from the transition in these places. For all these reasons, a new report created by Hotspotting is more important than most. This report is titled: “Australia’s Infrastructure-led Property Boom: National Top 10 Hotspots”. We’ve just published the new 2021 edition. It’s a report that encapsulates the essence of the national property boom. So get yourself a copy today. /episode/index/show/hotspotting/id/18463526

Webinar replay: Why Invest in Brisbane 03/24/2021

Is This The Perfect Storm For Investors? 03/18/2021

Top 5 Regional Queensland Hotspots 03/17/2021

Good News Bulletin 9 March 2021 03/10/2021

Catching the Next Wave of Property growth – What Every Investor Needs to Know. 03/04/2021

Exodus to Affordable Lifestyle Report 2021 03/01/2021

Exodus to Affordable Lifestyle Report 2021 The strongest trend to impact Australian real estate in the 21st Century is currently sweeping the nation. The Exodus to Affordable Lifestyle is creating growth is regional cities and towns which is out-performing the big cities. The fringe areas of major cities, regional cities, hill change towns and sea change enclaves are all beneficiaries of this compelling trend. While property prices have been muted in the two biggest cities, smaller cities and regional locations are experiencing strong demand and price uplift. Ultra-low vacancy rates are another element of the strength of these markets, putting upward pressure on rents and creating higher yields. The Exodus trend has been driven by technology and improved transport links, as more and more people realise the possibilities of working remotely – and thereby being able to escape the big, expensive, congested cities. It was a rising tide before the pandemic, with increasing numbers of Australians realising the possibilities of working from home. The Covid-19 lockdowns have enhanced a trend that was already under way, turning a steady drift into a stampede, by opening the eyes of more Australians to the potential. The pandemic has supercharged an established trend, making it the driving force of markets across Australia. The trend was first visible in Regional Victoria with people retreating to hill change towns within 1-2 hours of Melbourne. Locations close to Sydney were also feeling it. Then the impetus rippled further out to regional centres more distant from the capital cities. It has reached as far north as Darwin, where Melbourne residents and others have headed for the relative safety and affordability of the northern capital (plus the warmer climate). Before the pandemic, Queensland was already on the relocation wish-lists of many interstate buyers. Now, with many people now working remotely, there is a growing herd migrating north. At Hotspotting we have been strongly advocating good regional centres for investment for the past three years. And in October 2020 we published the first edition of our National Top 10 Exodus to Affordable Lifestyle report. It quickly became one of our most popular products. And this week we published our new 2021 edition of the report. It outlines our Top 10 picks of locations expected to rise on the back of this trend. And, because there are so many places with potential for strong growth, we include a B List of 10 locations which missed the cut for the Top 10. So get yourself a copy of the new 2021 edition of the Exodus to Affordable Lifestyle report – and have a read of it today. /episode/index/show/hotspotting/id/18130430

What Investors Must Know - Tax Depreciation 2021 02/18/2021

Good News Bulletin 17 February 2021 02/18/2021

Good News Bulletin 17 February 2021 Vacancy rates in our already-tight rental markets fell in six of the capital cities and were unchanged in the other two in January, according to the monthly report from SQM Research. The national average vacancy rate fell from 2.2% in December to 2% in January, but five capital cities – Perth, Adelaide, Canberra, Darwin and Hobart – all have vacancy rates below 1%, while Brisbane sits at 1.7%. Throughout regional Australia, many centres have vacancy rates below 1% in what represents a national rental crisis for people seeking tenancies. The industry benchmark is that vacancy rates below 3% represent a shortage of rental properties. The two biggest cities, where vacancies are highest, showed marked improvements in January, with Sydney falling from 3.6% in December to 3.2%, and Melbourne falling from 4.7% to 4.4%. SQM CEO Louis Christopher says the figures provide more evidence the worse is over for landlords in the Sydney and Melbourne rental markets. He says: “The falls in vacancy rates for the month in those two cities, combined with the increased tightness in other cities and regions, has now brought rental vacancy rates down to below where they were prior to the outbreak of Covid19.” Christopher says the data suggests that 2021 will remain largely a tenant’s market in the inner city areas “but will also very much remain a landlord’s market for regional Australia”. He also notes that rents for both houses and units have risen in the capital cities, on average, over the past month. In annual terms, the national average is a 10% rise in house rents and a 4% increase in apartments rents. The growth has been higher in regional markets than in the capital cities, with Sydney and Melbourne rents still lower on average than a year ago. But there have been strong rises in Perth, Canberra and Darwin. In Perth, rents have risen 11.5% for houses and 12.3% for apartments, while in Darwin house rents have increased 27% in 12 months. In Canberra rents have risen around 6% for both houses and units. /episode/index/show/hotspotting/id/17993759

Good News Bulletin 10 February 2021 02/11/2021

Good News Bulletin 10 February 2021 Here’s how you spot a real estate charlatan, someone who likes to present themselves as a real estate expert but who in reality knows nothing worth hearing … 1. They speak of Australia as a single property market; and/or 2. They attribute price growth to “record low interest rates” Mostly these pretenders are economists. I would remind you of a much-quoted definition of an economist: Someone who can tell you tomorrow why their predictions yesterday didn’t come true today. We have learnt over the years, but particularly in 2020, that the bigger the name and the media profile, the worse they are at analysing residential real estate and forecasting outcomes. Cast your minds back to the predictions in March/April 2020 from senior economists employed by the major banks, big institutions like AMP and even those working for specialist real estate research entities. And then again later in the year when the so-called September Cliff was proclaimed an impending disaster. There was a chorus of predictions of a long recession, with double-digit unemployment and real estate values collapsing. How spectacularly wrong they were. Only the specialist property analysts got it right. But the appalling track record of economists with real estate analysis stretches back years and includes the alarmist predictions about property prices in the wake of the GFC – also proven to be spectacularly wrong. It’s remarkable that media continues to give these charlatans airplay. Credibility, it seems, is optional, so long as you have “economist” in your title. So the nation’s gaggle of chattering economists has been compelled to admit they got it wrong in 2020 and most of them are now forecasting big price growth this year. You will note that what they are predicting is already happening, highlighting another characteristic of this bloated and overblown profession: predicting the recent past. And how do they explain the gathering boom? Record low interest rates! God help us. The lack of expertise among the talking heads who clutter up the airways with their simplistic analysis is quite breathtaking. As we all know, we’ve had ultra-low interest rates for years. Very little has changed in that regard to explain the recent uplift in sales activity. When Sydney and Melbourne were having their real estate boom from 2013 to 2017-ish, economists generally explained the price rises with “record low interest rates”. They had no response to the obvious question at the time: how come prices in Perth and Darwin were falling, while Canberra, Brisbane and Adelaide were stagnating? The “low interest rates = property boom” theory also fails to explain why the last two genuine nationwide property booms, in the late 1980s and in the early years of this century, both occurred during periods of very high and rising interest rates. My view, strongly, is that record low interest rates do not explain what’s happening in real estate across most of Australia. The growth is being fueled by multiple factors, including …  A stronger-than-expected economy  Lower-than-predicted unemployment  State and federal stimulus measures  The build-up of savings during the pandemic period  People in lockdown reviewing their life choices  Ultra-low vacancies, putting upward pressures on rents and prices  Pent-up demand, leading to rising sales activity  Low listings levels, relative to rising buyer demand  The Exodus to Affordable Lifestyle trend, which is hugely influential  Increased spending on major new infrastructure  The revival of the resources sector  The return of ex-pat Australians in large numbers  The belated entry of investors to compete with owner-occupiers  Perceptions about the safety and solidity of bricks & mortar in times of uncertainty  The growing prevalence of e-commerce and its impact on industrial property, which has repercussions for residential demand  Access to low-cost finance And you’ll notice that I mention low interest rates as just one of 16 different factors – and I mention it last and definitely least. /episode/index/show/hotspotting/id/17911001

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