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Juwai.com reports: Juwai.com surveyed 256 Chinese from 28 provinces as well as from overseas. The respondents reported that over 90% were planning to travel overseas in 2018 and 77% of them would consider buying property in the country they visited. The main reasons for purchasing: living environment, education, healthcare and welfare support. They are buying […]
This client was self directed and wanted an investment property up to $600,000 in value with strong capital growth to increase their capital and supplement their retirement income. They were self directed and only wanted a “Where to Buy; What to Buy; and, When to Buy” assessment. The first step was to identify ‘Where to […]
For those of you that follow the Warren Buffet principles of counter cyclical investment it is always important to watch emerging trend-changes in Australian property markets. Economic indicator changes always precede real estate data. We watch dominant economic sectors in each state, territory or region looking for changes in trends and then we seek to […]
Demand for housing is driving property prices in Melbourne. Demand is being accelerated by record levels of interstate migration, very high levels of international immigration and strong international student growth. Melbourne and Sydney combined have had over 70% of the job growth in Australia in the last year. Many of those from the mining boom […]
The latest demographic data release from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) shows a big jump in net overseas migration over the first quarter of 2017. The 86,595 increase in net overseas migration throughout the March 2017 quarter was the largest quarterly increase since March 2009 (88,696). The quarterly rate of net overseas migration was […]
The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) released their biennial survey of household income and wealth earlier this week. The release has a huge amount of valuable data but at least initially I thought it was pertinent to look at the dwelling tenure data. The information is provided from 1994-95 up until the latest release (2015-16). […]
The ongoing increases in dwelling values over recent years has led to a significant reduction in the proportion of sales occurring below $400,000. In last week’s Property Pulse we looked at the proportion of dwellings selling for at least $1 million and showed how it has increased significantly over recent years. This week we look […]
Settled sales data indicates that although transactions are lower over the year across the combined capital cities the number of sales is beginning to stabilise. Property transactions are an important component of the housing market, particularly for participants such as real estate agents and mortgage brokers that rely on turnover for their commission. Furthermore, transactions […]
The 2016 Census data provides the opportunity to look at the areas across the nation which have had the highest proportion of rental properties. The 2016 Census showed that 30.9% of residential properties nationally were rented. The proportion of properties rented has been trending higher, increasing from 29.6% at the time of the 2011 Census […]