Hotspots

Reports, statistics and analysis from experts on the Australian property market.
Money read icon 1 min read
Hotspots • 18 Sep 2017
‘Melbourne has stolen Chinese buyers’: Juwai
More than 40 per cent of all Chinese-buying inquiries in the year to date have been for Melbourne, making the southern city Australia’s destination of choice.
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Kylie Davis read icon 3 min read
Hotspots • 18 Sep 2017
Why Millennials will affect real estate
Even though the perception of Millennials are of a lazy, entitled generation, Kylie Davis writes they are a generation to be reckoned with, and will no doubt change the...
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Tenant read icon 2 min read
Hotspots • 15 Sep 2017
What makes a good tenant?
As a property investor, choosing which tenants to accommodate in your properties is one of the most important steps to ensure the growth of your portfolio, but Smart...
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Piggy bank read icon 1 min read
Hotspots • 15 Sep 2017
Bigger CGT discounts and MIT changes: Government details housing affordability measures for investors
First home buyers aren’t the only ones benefiting from the government’s attempts to make housing more affordable, with larger capital gains tax (CGT) discounts and...
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Hobart read icon 1 min read
Hotspots • 15 Sep 2017
Hobart could be the next Sydney, says property market analyst
With both Sydney and Melbourne markets cooling, a property market analyst has said a boom could occur in Tasmania’s capital city soon.
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Increase value read icon 1 min read
Hotspots • 15 Sep 2017
Value increases best at top end of town
Research by CoreLogic using the stratified hedonic index shows that the most expensive 25 per cent of properties recorded the greatest value growth over the past year.
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Good and bad relationship read icon 1 min read
Hotspots • 14 Sep 2017
‘Are you a problem client?’: Building good relationships with property professionals
Smart property investors know that establishing good relationships with property professionals is an important part of a good investment journey, and getting to know the...
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Piers van Hamburg read icon 2 min read
Hotspots • 14 Sep 2017
It makes me sick in the stomach...
He said, and I quote: “It makes me sick in the stomach how the real estate industry is obsessed with talking about money. All I hear, all the time, is people...
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Different conditions, arrows read icon 1 min read
Hotspots • 14 Sep 2017
Changing economic conditions a crisis for unprepared investors
Investors without a hold on their cash flow may face crisis in 2018, according to a chartered accounting firm.
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Paul Glossop read icon 1 min read
Hotspots • 14 Sep 2017
Earn $80k p.a. or less? This one’s for you…
Just because you don’t earn a six-figure salary, it doesn’t mean you can’t break into the investment property market.
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