residential property

As the first tentative signs of an easing of COVID-19 restrictions occur, it’s timely to look ahead and see how real estate investment may be affected as the cycle...

12 months ago, Australia’s housing market appeared to be spiralling towards a very messy crash. A combination of factors had led to some of the worst falls in housing...

In the last three years, Australian houses have gone from boom to bust and now back to boom again. I have written in the past about how crazy the property cycle is,...

On Tuesday the ABS released March quarter property price data revealing that established house prices fell in all eight capital cities. However, it was Sydney and...

The week ahead in Australia will no doubt be dominated – at least for those not more enthralled by Eurovision - by the outcome of the election which has seen the...

With the Easter and Anzac period upon us, for some holiday reading, we’ve rounded up and summarised a baker’s dozen of the top wires of 2019 so far, including some of...

The negative effects of ALP policies on housing, SMSFs and profit margins are already impacting certain sectors of the market, such as banks, residential property...

Given the notable rise in residential values over recent years, the sector has drawn an increased amount of attention as a real estate investment class. Australia’s...

I distinctly remember one investor telling me how lonely he felt undertaking the task of running his super. Alone with lots of information and no one to speak with or...

One of the most engaging parts of my role at Livewire is working with Australian fund managers to discuss their views and bring you great content. With over 400...

There’s no shortage of big-picture issues playing on investors' nerves right now. Macro and geopolitical forces have a firm grip on sentiment, and 2018 will be...

The critical financial issue in the Australian economy at present is clearly the possible economic effect of the decline in home prices. We have been warning about...

House prices are now falling in Sydney, Melbourne, and Perth according to CoreLogic's recently released data. Year-on-year changes in house prices are shown in the...

With Labor tipped to win the next election, and franking credits in their sights, here are eight reasons we believe conservative investors looking for sustainable...

The elephant in the room for residential property is the ongoing pressure on banks' net interest margins. While the recent rise in funding costs has been well...

What would you nominate as the most under-appreciated risk in the market today? There seems to have been an endless carousel of macro ‘bogeymen’, yet markets keep...

With tectonic plates shifting under the markets, we got in touch with three leading economists to get their number one chart in markets today. First up, Cameron...

We recently co-authored a detailed report with independent analysts RiskWise Property Research, following in-depth investigation, modelling and data analysis,...