We all know housing prices are taking a hit in 2018-19, with Melbourne and Sydney particularly affected. And while real estate sank by an average of around 4.8% in 2018, rents have risen.Property Observer gave several reasons for the price pressure in the rental...

Finance and investment are often discussed in terms of cycles. Property valuers, Herron Todd White (HTW), took that notion to its logical conclusion for real estate when they devised the National Property Clock.As the name suggests, this view of the real estate cycle...

It’s nice to think that a new year is a new beginning, but of course, the world has just taken another turn about the sun, and the markets are responding to the weight and shape of everything behind it with as much volatility as ever.The year began with the Australian...

The new year has just begun, and it’s looking like Australia’s property bubble has, if not burst, then started to deflate at a rapid pace, at least in some parts of the country.The decline in Melbourne and Sydney prices has been significant in the last year, speeding...

Despite declining housing prices in Sydney and Melbourne, it seems that some investors still feel optimistic.The results of the 2018 Property Investor Sentiment Survey were posted on 27 December, revealing that 52.6 per cent of the 1800 respondents thought that now...