Hotspots

Reports, statistics and analysis from experts on the Australian property market.
Philippe Brach read icon 3 min read
Hotspots • 04 Mar 2015
The one question you must know the answer to
If you can’t answer this question quickly and simply, you're unlikely to succeed at property investment. 
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Sydney ‘overvalued by 25 pc’ read icon 1 min read
Hotspots • 04 Mar 2015
Sydney ‘overvalued by 25 pc’
The Sydney property market is currently significantly overvalued, but is still not in ‘bubble’ territory, according to a prominent property analyst.
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Foreign buyer fee won’t curb demand read icon 1 min read
Hotspots • 03 Mar 2015
Foreign buyer fee won’t curb demand
A federal government proposal to charge foreign buyers an application fee each time they buy property in Australia will not tackle the ‘seismic’ changes in...
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Helen Collier-Kogtevs read icon 1 min read
Hotspots • 02 Mar 2015
Could you be sitting on a positive cash-flow goldmine?
Many investors think it's simply too difficult to find positively geared or positive cash-flow properties, but it's not as hard as you might think.
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Melbourne price growth on the slide read icon 1 min read
Hotspots • 02 Mar 2015
Melbourne price growth on the slide
Melbourne has slipped to third place in terms of property price growth across the capital cities, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics.
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13 suburbs to take off in 2015 read icon 2 min read
Hotspots • 27 Feb 2015
13 suburbs to take off in 2015
The 13 suburbs which are most likely to deliver capital growth to investors in Queensland this year have been uncovered by a new report.
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Foreign buyer crackdown could prove costly read icon 1 min read
Hotspots • 27 Feb 2015
Foreign buyer crackdown could prove costly
The federal government has been accused of solving a problem that doesn’t exist after announcing a crackdown on international investors.
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Record amount of supply entering market read icon 1 min read
Hotspots • 26 Feb 2015
Record amount of supply entering market
Australia is set to build a record number of homes this financial year – and almost 35 per cent more than three years earlier.
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State’s star performers identified read icon 1 min read
Hotspots • 25 Feb 2015
State’s star performers identified
Two regional towns have been crowned among the best property market performers of 2014, according to new data released on Monday.
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Govt keeping 'an open mind' on SMSF lending read icon 1 min read
Hotspots • 25 Feb 2015
Govt keeping 'an open mind' on SMSF lending
Investors who wish to borrow within their self-managed super fund (SMSF) to purchase property will be able to continue to do so for now, but the government is...
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