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  • The Impact of Baby Boomers on the Australian Property Market – A Guide for Property Investors (updated)

    The Impact of Baby Boomers on the Australian Property Market – A Guide for Property Investors (updated)

    Yes, there is COVID-19 – but what about the huge demographic shift from retiring Australian baby boomers and its impact on the Australian property market? Will it lead to the collapse of real estate prices? Baby boomers have at times been equated with the elephant in the (property market) room. There have been widespread discussions…

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  • How Best to Pay Off Family Home Debt?

    Unless you are among the really ambitious ‘near 2%’ of the property investors, you are not planning to buy off Disneyland yet. May be you can call yourself a conservative, moderate-stanced investor who wants to wrap up the debt on the family home with a part of the money earned over a lifetime. And the…

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  • Diversification a Must For Investment portfolio

    A strong portfolio is every investor’s dream but can strength ever be attained without laying emphasis on property diversification? What if a particular market bears the brunt of negative consumer sentiment or a natural phenomenon? Let us say you bought a dozen waterfront properties only to see your dreams ‘washed away’ by a tsunami and…

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  • Five-year Plans Work Best

    “Best dreams are those which remain unrealised”….I don’t remember who said it and why it is still lying with me. It oozes with escapist connotations, go-getters may even find it trashy and it looks good only to comfort forlorn lovers. Hey! I am getting carried away….why did I even begin this topic this way?

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  • Are You Ready To Sit For A Finance Quiz?

    A high number of Australian citizens are not paying enough attention to their finances and worse still; most of them are ignorant about basic aspects of finance. Michael Yardney for the Property Update throws light on an interesting survey (conducted by finder.com.au) which yields that at least 66% of Australians do not track their financial…

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  • Property Holdings Have Triggered Australians’ wealth

    An article on the website Smart property Investment confirms that Australians have the highest median wealth in the world (A Credit Suisse report). This is due to the property holdings of Australian investors. Barring Norway, Australia is at the top in terms of percentage of people investing in real estate. The median wealth of Australian…

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