Investing in Property shouldn’t hurt! Just about everyone at some time in their life considers investing in property as a vehicle for wealth creation and financial freedom at retirement age. However, only a percentage of those who think about investing in property act and put themselves in a position where they will not have to…
You will either decide to change or have change forced upon you… either way it’s coming! Like it or not there are shifts occurring internationally, nationally, industrially and individually. One way or the other you’re going to be affected; so as the saying goes… “Toughen Up Precious”. Change brings with it opportunity and only those who…
Let’s look at the profile of the average investor. As you read on ask yourself… do you want to be above average? Michael Matusik, property analyst and author of Matusik Property Insights and The Matusik Snapshot, recently wrote that on average the typical Australian Investor holds 1.5 residential investment properties. He also said that the vast…
SIMON JOHANSON, July 24, 2010 COMMERCIAL property rents will double and residential property prices will rise by up to 40 per cent during the next four to five years, a respected economist said yesterday in a bullish forecast for the Australian economy. BIS Shrapnel’s chief economist, Dr Frank Gelber, who was speaking in Melbourne at…
As I write, it is Tuesday 15th September 2009; “The First Anniversary Of The Collapse Of The US Investment Bank Lehman Brothers“. Lehman Brothers became the first significant high profiled casualty of the recent global financial crisis. An article I wrote back on 17th December 2004 that I recently came across among my “friday afternoon…
The cost of undeveloped land in Australia rose by 7% in the March quarter – according to a recent Housing Industry of Australia report. HIA Chief Economist, Harley Dale was reported in the Gold Coast Bulletin (July 25-26th 2009) as saying that the positive result poured cold water on the doom and gloom assessments or…
