Each property cycle has certain typical characteristics. While there are a few aspects which do not change, there is bound to be a factor Y that is unique to each property cycle. Each cycle goes through a peak and a trough phase, a downturn and a recovery phase but where one cycle may be marked by excess liquidity (its unique factor), another may be peppered with lack of consumer confidence.
Without delving deeply into what separates one property cycle from another in general, let us focus on the major differences between the present and the last property cycle. I am sure some of them will surprise you and one such difference in particular may change the way you look at the coming property cycles.
Has the Sydney property market run its course? Are we nearing a property bust? For some time now, the doomsayers have been warning of a bust at the top of their voices. They feel that the property market in the Harbour City does not have anything more to offer. Prices are at their peak value and the 
While there are definitely a few stand-out property investment options, many properties do not quite make the cut. At best, they return poor profits when resold and at worst, you just run up losses on them. What do you think differentiates a good property from a bad one? To answer the question, “where to buy investment property?”, we should work towards finding the sweet spot of the real estate market.
In an article for the website Property Update, Kevin Turner talks about the real estate market of Sydney and advises investors not to panic in the wake of falling property prices. It has not dawned on us any recently that Christmas brings with it a lot of property adventure.
In most of the capital cities of Australia, the number of residential property listings went up in March of this year, but Canberra and Melbourne experienced an unseasonal fall in the listings. On a national scale, the number of unsold listings rose to 1.8% from February 2015, or roughly 358,167 unsold properties as of March 2015.
Best-selling market is an understatement when you’re talking about Sydney’s hot market. In fact, it’s now known as “extreme seller’s market” as dubbed by a new report. The latest Commonwealth Bank/CoreLogic Home Buyers Index (HBI) discovered that the number of new mortgages being processed by the CBA outpaced the number of properties advertised for sale in the city.
