Category: Insider Insights
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SPOTLIGHT ON: Queensland
Whilst Queensland may have something for everyone, investors are beginning to reap the benefits. In fact, the Queensland story is just beginning. We are only just at the opening chapter of how the exciting projects will impact the market. Destination Brisbane Consortium; development of the Queen’s Wharf is already setting up the market for…
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Investing Outside the Box – How about Serviced Apartments?
More often than not, higher yields scream higher risk. This is no different for investing in serviced apartments. By definition, a serviced apartment is a fully serviced apartment that is available for stays both long and short term which provides hotel-like amenities such as room service, fitness centres, laundries and recreation rooms. A builder/developer builds…
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Why Hobart & Adelaide’s rankings in the latest QBE report don’t quite add up..
While I agree with QBE’s assessment that Canberra will be one of the stronger performers in the country due to a lack of housing supply, they’ve grossly overestimated Hobart’s potential growth and overlooked the signs of strength in Adelaide. QBE have made a bold projection in their Australian Housing Outlook report, released last month. Let’s start in the…
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Investing Outside the Box – All Eyes on AirBnb
In a world of Block Chain and the shared economy are we missing out on opportunities by not latching onto these initiatives? Are we worse off for not using Bitcoin for property purchases or putting our house on Airbnb whilst we enjoy our summer vacation? With these new initiatives comes new challenges. Challenges in both…
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Where is property market success projected to be heading?
At a recent Q&A following a presentation, Anna explored Canberra as an investment opportunity and delved into the purchasing of units. According to the latest QBE Housing Outlook Report, The Australian Capital Territory has the highest percentage of investor loans at 21.4%. Population growth is one of the key indicators that impacts the property market…
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Unlocking the Property Market – Focus on Wollongong, Central Coast & Newcastle
As a property investment advisor and former property valuer, I see many good and many bad investments. At each event I present at someone will always tell me that property values always go up, and that values always double every 7-10 years. I can tell you, this is certainly not always the case. We meet…
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Unlocking the Property Market – 2017 CAPITAL CITY OVERVIEW
As a former property valuer I certainly love data and we spend much of our time pawing over graphs and charts that help us piece together the puzzle that is the property market. When the latest corelogic data comes out our research team go into overdrive to see where the best opportunities lie and what…
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Investing Outside the Box – Spotlight on Snow Properties
At Suburbanite we typically look at bread and butter style investment properties, the ones that are safe as houses – excuse the pun. This makes the most financial sense for our mum and dad investors. But, lets jump out of the box for a moment and take a look at some of the more left…
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THE #1 SIGN THAT THE REAL ESTATE BUBBLE IS ABOUT TO BURST – and it’s happening in Sydney
There has been talk of the real estate bubble for the past 3 years and for this whole time we have said that there is no bubble, until now! Lets go back to basics and firstly clarify exactly what a real estate bubble is. The bubble is when the cost of housing exceeds affordability, and…
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How to avoid an investment spruiker – Anna tours with Mark Bouris
Our director, Anna Porter is incredibly passionate about investors not falling victim to property spruikers. It is sad to say that we get emails on a weekly basis from people who have fallen victim and lost everything. Here is just one example of a recent email we received that broke our hearts… “We have been directed…
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Investing in QLD is a game of winners and losers
We couldn’t help but notice that a lot investors and first home-buyers are flocking to the QLD market in their masses. It is especially popular with first home-buyers from interstate looking to get onto the property ladder, and first time investors chasing a more affordable purchase price than what you can get in Sydney, Melbourne…
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Which state holds the best opportunity in 2017
As property valuers and economists, we take a critical look at each state and scrutinise the numbers, the drivers and the data. We then delve deeper into property markets within them and we do this over and over at HQ. This is just part of our DNA, wanting to know which markets are set to perform…