As Generation Y matures to take their place in the world, we notice that they are doing things a little different when it comes to the way they live and invest in property. With previous generations, it was all about moving out of home, perhaps renting for a while to save for that deposit or […]

Changing housing affordability within a suburb or city often comes with an inevitable shift in demographics as residents find their way to more affordable locations and those who are wealthy, move into the premium locations. We are starting to see this shift happened more often as Sydney’s housing prices grow over the last decade. While […]

As we start to learn more about the trend of rentvesting, that is renting the home you live in while investing elsewhere, we start to ask who is that is behind this trend? While we can think of the strategy being started by savvy investment bankers who have crunched the numbers and found it to […]

While the census was unable to cover statistics on rentvesting, Westpac has taken a survey to determine who is purchasing investment properties while also living in rental accommodation. The Ipsos poll sheds light on how Australian’s are investing in property, revealing that roughly two in five Australians would consider buying a property as an investment […]

Everything eventually reaches its expiry date. This goes for trends, fads, clothing styles, phrases, popular music and just about everything else you can think of. It is the natural course of life, birth and death. The same can be said for the traditional concept of homeownership. The Australian dream experienced its birth sometime after the […]

Rentvestors are growing in numbers across our country with the latest data by Westpac showing that up to 40% of Australians would consider rentvesting as a strategy to get involved in the real estate market. With housing affordability being a major talking point in the latest market cycle, we need to ask the question, how […]

It can be a tough decision to make, especially when you are at a crossroads in life. Live where you want to live in the more expensive suburb and keep renting or purchase a property in the outer suburbs to start paying down a mortgage. When you are young, this decision can feel impossible, you […]

For many Australians, the idea of the typical property investor is likely to be a wealthy male, wearing a suit and speculating on property full time. The reality however, is much different, a majority of Australia’s property investors are those who already own their own home and are looking for a way to continue building […]