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By Melinda Jennison – Managing Director of Streamline Property Buyers Australia is not one property market.  National news headlines often make predictions about property price movements.  In most cases these headlines apply to the major capital city markets, and not all of the property markets around Australia.  Brisbane is a very different property market to the major capital cities of Sydney and Melbourne.  Property investors appear to be drawn to Brisbane for the attractive gross rental yields, and because the...

By Good Deeds Property Buyers Should I sell my investment property now the boom is over? APRA & The Royal Commission into Banking and now COVID have impacted the lending practices of the major banks in Australia and many would-be buyers are surprised to find that their access to funds has been severely curtailed. Now that money is harder to come by it’s critical that borrowing capacity is not tied up in poor-performing assets. Has all this got you asking:...

By David Johnston, Managing Director of Property Planning Australia Trust research fellow, Henry Halloran from the University of Sydney co-authored a report outlining how real home prices rose by three times wages growth since 2000.Why does this occur? Primarily access to finance.. Our two most loved form of investments, property and stocks have a long history of outperforming wage growth. Residential property's primary purpose however, is to provide shelter. This means it receives governmental and social support, and rightly so....