So if property is all about Supply vs Demand (volume), how do you measure this? Find that suburb that is in demand?? ... . it has nothing to do with past performance... from my personal experience, past performance is no real indicator on what will happen in the future. This should probably be added to the BS professional detector spin. Professional BS Detector Easiest way when you identify a particular State/suburb is to look at volume, number of listings versus how many sales per month/per annum. Its pretty simple to do. MTR