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After two years of uncertainty and households battening down the hatches, 2022 offers some hope of a recovery. The asset markets have been watching interest rates closely reacting to any news or rumour about the beginning of the end of decades of cheap money. While this may be true, the historic first step down the QE path by the RBA almost certainly signifies a turning point in Australian monetary policy.
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Undoubtedly the single biggest driver for property prices over the course of 2020 and 2021 was the $350 billion quantitative easing program (QE). This had the effect of injecting $4 billion per week into the economy, pushing the interest rates down and driving asset prices upwards sharply despite tough economic conditions for many ordinary people.
John BekiarisLeave a comment
Real estate cannot be lost or stolen, nor can it be carried away….it is about the safest investment in the world.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
Joshua MellickLeave a comment
There are two significant aspects of investing in property: capital growth and rental yield. Capital growth is the price of the property increasing over time, while rents offer a source of liquid income. The term “total return” is simply adding the two components together.
Gavin ChauLeave a comment
Most people that have been to one of our seminars would have seen the stats about the proportion of Australians that own more than one investment property.
Gavin ChauLeave a comment
Well, it’s the last blog of the year for Blue Wealth before we head off on our holiday break. I always have mixed feelings about Christmas and the New Year – for most of us the end of another year is a reminder that we just went around the sun again and of the inexorable passage of time. It also gives us a chance to reflect on what happened during the year. And what a year it’s been. We’re now living through the most extreme government intervention in financial markets in history.
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One of the few benefits of age is that it provides some context about how the world is changing. This is also why we spend so much time looking at time series or longitudinal data when assessing virtually anything in property. One structural change that stands out is the rate at which apartments are being built compared to detached houses.
Luke GrahamLeave a comment
We have discussed houses versus units repeatedly since the founding of Blue Wealth Property… but with talking heads heralding the end of higher-density living since the onset of the pandemic nearly two years ago, what has changed..?
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It was 2020. A client, who bought in a project called LaVida in Newstead, Brisbane in 2016 called me, telling me they wanted to sell. Their personal circumstances had changed and they were frustrated that their property hadn’t performed the way they thought it would.
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