Property Market Analysis - Investment Strategies

• Expert insight: Where is it best to invest?

  This blog post and the series of blog posts that follow will explore and compare the two asset classes at different levels: from comparing the performance of the Australian property market at the capital city level to the share market, to comparing individual shares to the performance of individual suburbs and even to single properties. read more

• Where the BIG spenders are heading

  Big retailers and companies don’t move into areas unless convinced they will support a future customer base. With this in mind, we reveal where airlines and retailers are expanding the most aggressively, creating investment opportunities read more

• Public housing trims property values

  It has long been a popular belief among property investors that a large concentration of housing commission in an area will negatively affect private housing prices. Only now has this belief been confirmed read more

• Why property data providers differ

  Why do data providers show contradicting median house prices? And why do some statistics sometimes appear hard to believe? read more

• Top 100 countdown (10 to 6)

  Our countdown of the top destinations in the country for future capital growth and rental returns continues as we reveal the suburbs that made the bottom half of the top 10. They include a mix of inner Sydney suburbs and Western Australian boomtowns read more

• How to identify a possible ‘ripple effect’ market

  If you're looking for a market that could benefit from ripple effect growth, here's how you do it read more

• The Ripple Effect

  Many investors are making excellent purchasing decisions using a concept known as the ‘ripple effect’. It states that prices growth goes in waves and that if you want to ride one – you have to get in front of one read more

• Is Perth turning a corner?

  The tide appears to be turning in Western Australia, with Perth recording some encouraging capital growth and rental growth figures during the first quarter of the year. read more

• Vic takes with one hand but gives with the other

  The Victorian Government may have scrapped the first homebuyer bonus, but stamp duty cuts for first homebuyers are set to increase. read more