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Everyone's panicking about Victoria's debt. Meanwhile, the state just posted its first operating surplus since 2019. Both things are true simultaneously, and if you understand why, you'll make better
I'm not telling you to flip houses. I'm telling you to stop pretending that sitting on a negatively-geared asset for a decade is a strategy. It's not a strategy — it's a prayer with a mortgage attache
154 families. Millions in deposits. Six years of waiting. And all they got was a patch of dirt and a lawsuit. This is the house-and-land horror story every buyer needs to read.
A client showed me her apartment last week. Toorak address. Beautiful building. Purchased twelve years ago. Current value? Less than what she paid. She asked me whether she should hold on and wait for
Australia's entire superannuation pool sits at $4.3 trillion. The residential housing stock is worth $12 trillion. When a country's single largest asset class is three times bigger than the retirement
My university mate Ethan just sold his Box Hill house at a $100,000 loss. He told me he felt lighter than he had in three years. When your mortgage payment equals your entire salary, something has gon
A Sydney tech CEO fed 320GB of genomic data into ChatGPT and designed a cancer treatment that shrunk his dog's tumour by 75%. Incredible result. Now ask yourself: when you use AI to find an investment
Moe: 7% in three months. Morwell: 7.4%. Two regional Victorian towns with nearly 30,000 combined residents that most investors have never heard of — and the data says they're just getting started.
A $500,000 house is not necessarily more affordable than an $800,000 house. I know that sounds like something a salesperson would say to justify a higher price. It is not. It is a mathematical fact, a
Put down every property podcast and guru prediction for five minutes. These are the 10 rules our team extracted from over 350 real transactions worth nine figures across Melbourne. Most of them will m
I have submitted over one thousand offers on residential property. Not hypothetical offers. Real numbers, attached to real contracts, sent to real agents who sometimes laughed and sometimes called bac
Most Chinese-Australian buyers pile into the same suburbs everyone else targets. The four-quadrant framework from Ray Dalio's Principles explains exactly why that strategy caps your returns — and what
The federal government committed $80 billion to fix the housing crisis. Senate records show zero new dwellings were constructed. Here is what the numbers actually reveal and why demand-side property f
I used to think the gap between successful investors and everyone else was work ethic. After managing 350-plus properties and watching hundreds of clients build portfolios, I can tell you it is not ab
A 30-year-old client walked into our office with 15 properties, $10M in mortgage debt, and zero intention of ever repaying a single dollar of principal. He wasn't reckless. He was doing the maths corr
In Australia, the amount your property grows in value matters far less than how much of that growth you actually keep after tax. The six-year rule is the single most powerful tax exemption available t
You might turn over $2M a year and still be poor. The distinction between active income and passive assets is the single biggest blind spot for successful entrepreneurs — and property is the vehicle t
Our most inexperienced client bought a corner-block weatherboard with structural issues for $625,000. Twelve months later, RPData valued it at $780,000. Sometimes knowing less means buying better.
Two months into 2021 and over 400,000 workers globally have been made redundant. That is 6,557 people every single day receiving that email. If you think your job is safe, I have some uncomfortable da
A suburb with 500 total crimes might be safer for your investment than one with 100 — it depends entirely on which crimes. Most investors compare headline numbers and draw the wrong conclusion. Here's
Every month, someone slides into my inbox pitching NDIS disability housing as the next goldmine. Eight to fifteen percent returns. Government-guaranteed rent. Recession-proof income. I have said no to
Housing is most people's single largest expense. But your home doesn't have to be a dead asset sitting there costing you money every month. Here are six proven methods to make your property work for y
Selling agents are professionally trained to extract the highest possible price from buyers. After 350-plus transactions on the buying side, I have catalogued the four phrases that consistently signal
Everyone who made money in Brisbane, Perth, and Adelaide is now pointing at Tasmania and saying 'I told you so.' But most of them couldn't distinguish investment from speculation if you drew them a di
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