Commentary

  • January Figures Displayed By the Property Market May be Deceptive

    In an article for the website realestate.com.au, Paul Thornhill talks about a great start to the property market in 2014 but also asks us to be wary of the figures, for they may flatter to deceive. Thornhill gives a few reasons why the summer figures are too good to be true.

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  • Pool Fights with Extra Bedroom for Top Honours

    I remember commenting on a Michael Yardney article which talked about the distinct tastes of Sydneysiders and Melburnians when it comes to choosing home features for themselves. Real estate constructors have been served well with the knowledge that “public transport access” and “shops in the vicinity” mattered more to Melburnians whereas ‘traffic’ mattered a lot…

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  • Agents Conspire With Sellers To Inflate Prices

    No game is short of its share of villains and the great game called the property market also has its fair share of real estate agents who ply their trade dubiously. In an article for the website Smart Property Investment, Stefanie Garber talks about how they conspire along with the sellers to inflate prices of…

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  • Avoid These Traps Of the Property Market

    In an article for the Property Update, Michael Yardney, one of the top property strategists in Australia today, talks about the major financial traps for property market investors. Along with James Hooper (Accountant), Greville Pabst (Valuer), and Carolyn Majda (Insurer), Yardney chalks out a list of such traps at the behest of friend Karina Barrymore…

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  • 2014 Can Be a Great Year For the Property Market

    Pete Wargent was more ebullient than many of his peers on Sydney’s property market scene and boy! Was he proved right? For the year 2014, he feels the same sense of ebullience. The good news, Wargent believes, is that none of the analysts have so far come up with dismal predictions and there is a…

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  • Paper Currency Is A Myth We Respond To

    When money speaks we aren’t concerned with its grammar. Great! Some say that while money may fail to buy happiness it can certainly buy off unhappiness. I find these assertions funny but quite on target- Really? Reallllllly! Pete Wargent in an article for the Property Update talks about how money makes the world go round.

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