Truth Bomb Tuesday: It’s hard to become completely free. Do you remember when you grew up? It must have happened at some point right? At some point you must have moved from the dependency of childhood into the independence of adulthood. But when was it? Was there a particular moment in time? Your eighteenth birthday? […]

See the world through the eyes of an economist: House prices, infrastructure and Taylor Swift. The data is still largely giving us pretty pictures to paint. First up, there was the acceleration in house prices, with Corelogic’s data for February lifting a solid 0.6% in the month of February. Expect the acceleration to continue, for […]

Truth Bomb Tuesday: I wouldn’t normally recommend this, but it works. Want to know a secret wealth hack you can do with debt? Use a heavy debt load to force change in your attitudes to money. Now, this isn’t for everyone. This isn’t even for most people. And generally, I would say that if debt […]

Office conversions are stalling. Did they ever make sense. One of the most hyped ideas to come out of Covid was that we could turn all the empty office towers into residential apartments. I was always a little sceptical about this. I mean, it sounds like a good idea. There’s an empty building and a […]

It has Canadian flavours, but their boom is built with the same bones as ours. Someone flicked me a kind of mind-blowing report on the Canadian housing market. If you think the Aussie housing market is tight, have a look at what’s happening in Canada. And if you think that the Aussie property market has […]

See the world through the eyes of an economist: auctions, global house prices, wages and the gender pay gap. This is what caught my eye this week. First up, auctions continue to run hot, and auction clearance rates (how many resulted in a successful sale) continue to boom. When you map this against house price […]

Sales should pick up this year… but it won’t close the shortage. New home buyers are starting to get active in the market. That was the word from Stockland’s earning call last week. The CEO reckons sales inquiries are booming: Home buyers are returning to the market as expectations grow that the cycle of interest […]

This was a great result, built on a property’s ‘potential’. So the auction market is clearly pumping so far this year. It’s had a cracker of a start and suggests that price growth should remain strong through the year ahead. The data on clearance rates is positively bullish. Eager buyers are keeping pace with the […]

Once you understand what wealth actually is, the game changes. What does it mean to be wealthy? This one of those words in the English language that is as common as mud, but everybody hasn’t a different understanding of what the word actually means. We all know it’s a good thing. We all want to […]