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Property: we can see it, we can touch it, we can read lots of stuff about it, and it is easy to think that we understand what drives the price of it. It is,…

Make no mistake, property markets in large parts of Australia will be booming by summer! Several locations in different parts of the country have already produced double-digit capital growth over the first 9-months of…

In capital cities and regions, property values and rents have increased in almost every Australian location over the last three months (ending September 2020). And there’s a better than average chance that many markets…

Propertyology is forecasting a significant transference of housing demand with thousands of residents likely to migrate away from Melbourne and Sydney over the next couple of years, creating beneficiaries elsewhere from internal migration. Among…

Throughout modern history, society’s biggest moments of adversity have become the catalyst of major behavioural changes for life on planet earth. Right here, right now, we are all part of history in the making;…

It is an (impartial) resource used for verification. There is a skill to understanding how it is compiled, the degrees of volatility within it, and how to analyse it. It is the ‘oil’ of…

Whether you are someone with an interest in buying real estate from time to time, a business owner (big or small), a representative of the media, a policy writer or a politician, here’s a…

The term ‘off-market’ gets thrown around more and more these days. For the record, Propertyology has never been totally comfortable with it. There are some fantastic real estate sales agents out there and Propertyology’s…

Let’s all be honest: no one likes the coronavirus, it’s a crap sandwich. While glass-half-full folk like myself will always look for positives by pointing out the fresh bread, in this case it’s still…

In a technical sense, there can only be one capital city in each state and territory. From a property market perspective, ‘capital city’ has nothing to do with capital growth, big does not mean…

With all of the recent property talk being about lockdowns, JobKeeper and (so-called) record high vacancy rates, one might be thinking that Australia is littered with empty dwellings are falling rents. To the contrary,…

Every year in every city, there will always be a range of significant projects being developed. From new train stations, to shopping centres, schools, and road projects… while these projects are very important to…

Mainland Australians owe Tasmanians an apology. The Island State has defied years of ridicule and criticism to officially become Australia’s strongest state economy, the nation’s best-performed property markets, and a magnet that’s drawing a…

How can one produce a $254,000 increase in net asset value in just five years without forking out any of one’s own cash to either purchase the assets or to cover the annual cost…

There is no such thing as a ‘human spirit index’, but I’d argue that it is one of the most powerful forces on the planet. Whether as individuals, teams or broader society, the human…

Over the last three years, the population of Australia’s eight capital cities declined by a net 52,650 to internal migration. There’s an exodus away from congestion and expensive housing while large parts of regional…

When evaluating property market potential, it’s important to ignore generalisations, personal biases, and to always (properly) explore the credentials of every location across this incredibly large and diverse country of ours. Right now, Propertyology…

Australia commenced the twenty-tens with widespread floods and ended it with some of the biggest bushfires in Australian history. In more ways than one, it was a decade of contrasts. The Prime Minster back…

’ video on 10 March. The world…

‘Supply-and-demand’: When it comes to property markets, there is an enormous societal lack of understanding of these two small words. The regular rhetoric reported by economists and property experts follows a meerkats theme: Simples…