Buying a property is an exciting, life-changing experience, but there are many myths about the process - especially if you're a first home buyer....
Do cheap suburbs under-perform? I split Australia into 2 groups based on whether a suburb is below or above the national median. Then I compared...
There's nothing wrong with trying to reduce expenses, but when an "expert" is focused on them, it makes me wonder if they have any other tricks....
I've heard more than one educator/expert/spruiker say you should inspect 100 properties before making a decision. I guess their idea is that you...
Each census we get asked whether we rent or own the property we're in. Based on the answers published about a year later by the ABS, we can...
I don't believe in Information Overload. I want more data, not less. But I accept some investors may get confused with the massive range...
Location is not nearly as important as timing when it comes to achieving above average capital growth. If location really was the 3 most...
I can't count the number of "experts" in Aussie real estate I've heard mis-use Buffet's quote. It might work well in the share market, the context...
I've heard some investment professionals suggest that a market is "too hot" or "overheated". It becomes clear that demand exceeds supply in the...
Here's a great example of how to misinterpret data like an expert... Let's say 80% of the properties in a suburb are houses. Some experts would...
For decades it’s been said that “rent money is dead money”. The "follow-on" has always been that you should aim to own your home rather than pay...
If you could only invest in one of 2 markets and you knew the growth would play out in the next 25 years as follows... [IMG] ...which would you...
Population growth is not the indicator of demand many believe it to be. At the micro level (suburb or LGA), it is actually an indicator of supply....
14 years! Remember watching it when I was working at Amex in the early - mid 2000's.... It will be missed. #Mythbusted.
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