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 […]
Renting can sometimes feel like you are trapped paying for someone else’s dream. You try to save for a deposit on your home but there is nothing left at the end of the week and you are trapped in the never-ending cycle as rent, utilities and groceries increase and your wages are stuck where they […]
One of life’s greatest achievements is putting down that long saved up deposit on your very first home. Whether it be the freedom of having a place to call your own or the stability and security of home, having your own piece of property is a dream highly sought after generation after generation. While this […]
It’s no surprise that the number of homeowners under forty is shrinking, however what is quite alarming is that this number has actually shrunk dramatically just four years from just under a third at 31.2 per cent in 2010 to around a quarter at 25.2 per cent in 2014 according to the Household, Income and […]
It can be easy to look at the property markets in the capital cities with disdain for the fact that first home buyers are missing out. Earlier generations had the opportunity to buy close to the convenience of the city and didn’t have to struggle for a deposit or make mortgage payments on their new […]
