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Last summer changed how I look at properties in the hills. The fires did not reach metropolitan Melbourne, but they got close enough to remind everyone that bushfire risk is not theoretical. It is a d
People keep asking me whether Box Hill is 'too expensive now.' That question misses the point entirely. The real question is: what drove Box Hill from a sleepy suburban centre to a designated metropol
I filmed this walkthrough on a Tuesday morning. The main house tenant was at work, the granny flat tenant was watering the garden out back, and both had no idea they were funding someone's early retir
I'm not being dramatic when I say the middle class is splitting in two. The data from the ABS is brutal. If you own property, your net worth grew by $320,000 on average over the last five years. If yo
My client was shaking. Literally trembling, hands on the phone, watching the auctioneer's countdown tick from 10 to 5. I was in my car with an earpiece, two suburbs away, and I could hear his breathin
When we settled on 6 Sweet Gum Avenue, the numbers were already decent. A three-bedroom house on 620 square metres in one of Narre Warren's quieter pockets, purchased for $762,000. Rent as-is would ha
I pulled the ABS wealth distribution data last week and nearly choked on my coffee. The gap between homeowners and renters isn't just big. It's so vast that we're effectively looking at two different
The most expensive mistake in property investment isn't buying in the wrong suburb. It's buying the right property for the wrong investor profile. I see it constantly — a retiree buying a development
The first step toward going broke in Australia is letting your mortgage payment exceed 30% of your household income. I don't care how much you earn. I don't care how good the property looks. If the ma
The invitation said 'smart casual.' I showed up in a hoodie. On purpose. In a room full of developers in $3,000 suits, the young bloke in the hoodie who nobody takes seriously is the most dangerous bi
There's a website that lets you check school zones, see automated valuations, identify flood zones, and find planning overlays — all for a specific address, all completely free. It's called property.c
After Victoria's Premier visited New Delhi and announced university partnership programs, the writing was on the wall. Melbourne's demographic mix is shifting, and the property market is going to shif
Who says you need three properties to collect three rents? This 719-square-metre corner block generates $1,200 a week from a single title. I walked through all three units last week and filmed the who
Everyone loves talking about capital gains. Nobody loves talking about what happens when you try to take those gains out of the property and put them in your pocket. I ran the numbers on a $200,000 ca
A rooming house that rents 5 rooms at $220 each generates $1,100 a week on paper. But one bad tenant — one person who doesn't pay, damages common areas, or harasses other tenants — can turn that $1,10
I evaluate roughly 40 suburbs a month. I invest in about 3 of them across the entire year. That's a 99% rejection rate. Not because I'm picky for the sake of it — because most suburbs fail a systemati
When rates drop, two things happen simultaneously. People with mortgages breathe easier. And people without mortgages suddenly realise they can afford to borrow more. The first reaction is relief. The
I used to spend 30 hours a week analysing suburb data manually. Pulling vacancy rates from SQM. Cross-referencing median prices from REIV. Running land-value calculations from council records. Then I
I walked into an auction last month where eighteen people stood around pretending to be interested. Most of them were neighbours. Two were agents from competing firms. Three were genuine buyers. I kne
A client rang me last month in a panic. She had moved out of her family home six months earlier, started renting it out, and just received a notice from the ATO querying her tax return. She had claime
The bill arrived on a Tuesday. Thirty thousand dollars. Victorian land tax assessment for the 2020 financial year. My first reaction was the same as yours would be — that is an absurd amount of money
I stood in the living room of a property in Canterbury that had been marketed as a four-bedroom family home with 'stunning period features.' The marketing photos looked brilliant. The walk-through vid
Pull up any Melbourne suburb on realestate.com.au and note the median house price. Now open domain.com.au and look at the same suburb. Different number. Sometimes vastly different. I checked twelve su
Every property commentator in Australia will tell you the same thing: prices go up when demand exceeds supply, prices go down when supply exceeds demand. It sounds logical. It is also woefully incompl
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