Unraveling the False Narrative
Amidst misinformation in media and real estate, discerning truth is key. Misleading tales from both spheres emphasize the importance of critical thinking.
Property Confusion – Cold and Hot market
I often get confused with the media news. The line is fragile between a hot market and a cold market. Just a while ago, we could see thousands of real estate advertisements and promotions together with the media news to "hurry up for not missing out if you want to have good growth", and [...]
It’s amazing how we tend to forget critical past events
The severe bush fires in 2019 caused panic and fear for real estate investing, especially close to forests which are approximately everywhere across the continent. Those who invested in real estate made good profits in the past three years.The start of the COVID pandemic stopped people from looking for property because of another fear mainly [...]
Do Not Trust Anyone
A fundamental lesson I learnt from the past investment journey which I thought to share. Do not trust anyone! Your friends, family, and friendly investment property consultants, agents, and direct property suppliers. I am also an advisor and a buyer's agent, and I am not trying to shoot myself in the leg or the [...]
Interest rates, cost of living and rentals are rising; should we sell, buy, rent?
Interest rates, cost of living and rentals are rising; should we sell, buy rent? Rent is increasing up to 25% over the past six months and will continue as rental properties supply is very tight. Interest rates have gone up and will rise more, along with the cost of living. A Dilemma: what to [...]
The Unit market is BOOMING. Haven’t you heard?
Units as houses are real estate products that eventually will go up in value over the years for all the patient investors; however, it is still crawling after the houses market. Units can be a good investment, but you need to know where to invest, location, number of bedrooms, bath and car parks, layout, [...]
Sales Opportunities in a Hot Market
The market became too expensive almost everywhere in the metropolitan areas and the main regional areas. I often see a lot of sponsor Ads of “cheap cheap’” opportunities e.g $400,000-600,000 Is that a problem or an opportunity to buy cheap? Let me explain: You can't buy anything than one bed at the above price and [...]
Making money is the whole point!
Property investment companies' sole focus should be to maximise investors' return and capital appreciation. After all, making money is the whole point, isn't it?! When we choose which property investment firm to put our faith and finances into, we want to be confident that they will do their best to make us money and [...]
Why do we buy property for investment?
It can be argued that real estate is potentially the most lucrative investment It’s common for long term investors’ properties to grow in value across 40 years Real estate can be the most reliable asset if you bought the right property and get consistent returns while holding We can potentially gain more returns from [...]
Are You Investing? Or Simply Buying a Dream?
I was told a long time ago that it doesn't matter what real estate we buy. Whether it’s a 1 bed, 3 bed, water view, no view, ground level, 10th level, 40m2 or 500m2 etc. every real estate will eventually grow in value over time. I was told, ‘just be patient’ and wait for the [...]