Sydney's median house price went from $600K in around 2011 or 2012 to $1.6 million in 2022. That's an increase of about 150%, or roughly doubling...
You can even get something in a central suburb of Brisbane (Hawthorne) or Melbourne (Albert Park) for just over a million dollars, but you'll be...
Let's say our hypothetical youngster is earning $200K, which would put them in the top 5% of earners. They'd be capable of living a comfortable...
How good things are for you at the moment really depends on your age. If you're in the older generation, with a decent amount of savings and...
The latest episode of The Elephant in the Room podcast actually explains this. [MEDIA] Eliza Owen of Corelogic says that the median price of...
I suspect that Tara Meakins, the journalist who penned that piece, was writing as much in the voice of a character. Sure, she's squandering her...
If you're interested in interest rate predictions, The Conversation posted a chart showing where economists think that they will end up by the end...
The latest lending indicators were released yesterday, and they showed a 3.9% fall in property finance over January. Owner occupier lending was...
Modelling by the ECB suggested that every 1% increase in interest rates would lead to a 9% reduction in real property prices after a couple of...
Anecdotally, I've found the jobs market to be quite tight at present and rates in the IT sector are down on a year or two ago. As for @sash...
If you work out the exponential, it's 6.78%, so not a lot different. I wonder how much of the current activity is being driven by the expectation...
Alan Kohler suggested that immigration should be capped to a number based on the housing supply. If we're increasing stock by 100K, then adding...
Biden will remember that he's actually Satoshi Nakamoto... :p He should probably step down in favour of someone like Gavin Newsom. But he still...
I don't think that anything @sash said was unreasonable. I was expecting him to predict a collapse in prices, interest rates to spike, and...
The detached house price you quote looks like the figure from Zoopla. They quote the average, which I'm guessing is the mean rather than the...
I don't know NY, but Sydney feels distinctly provincial when compared to London. :D In terms of prices, the median in London is somewhere around...
The problem with affordability is that house prices are (in real terms) something like two or three times the level they were in the eighties and...
To be fair, London was abandoned by the Romans when they left Britain 410 AD, and the Anglo-Saxons largely ignored it for a century or two. Then...
It's been nine years since I left London, so I'm out of touch with the market. I've seen a few figures that put it around £515K to £535K, which is...
Surely the starting point for tax concessions would be figuring out what's the best balance between supporting investors to provide a necessary...
Separate names with a comma.