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Oversupply in the housing market

The scale and duration of Australia’s construction boom has led to fears that the housing market could soon face oversupply. We sat down with Andrew Schwartz, Group...
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Property still in high demand

Residential property data have been increasingly bearish over the last six months. However, Andrew Schwartz, Group Managing Director at Qualitas, which invests across...
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5 key charts on the housing market

The problem with the entire residential narrative is that it is based on short-term perspectives. Taking a long-term view, house price growth over the last six years...
Matthew Coleman
Matthew Coleman
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More to come from the infrastructure boom

Almost 12 months ago, we published an article about the coming boom in Australian infrastructure spending. At the time, a popular chart by Macromonitor (see below) was...
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Preparing for, not predicting, the housing crash

Newspaper headlines like “House prices continue to tumble nationally” are now everywhere. While we have been worried about the potential for a housing correction for a...
Alex Shevelev
Forager
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Why WeWork works

The concept of flexible office space, or coworking, has been around for decades. It never garnered much attention, until the arrival of WeWork that is. In just 7...
Corrine Ng
Dexus
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3 key themes for AREITS

The Australian Real Estate Investment Trust sector’s total return of 13.2% for the 2018 financial year might get investors a little excited, especially with earnings...
Pete Morrissey
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A different source of income

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...
Matthew Coleman
Matthew Coleman
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Housing losses are going to get worse... (And RMBS downgraded)

Today I argue that our 2017 forecast for a 5% to 10% peak-to-trough drop in national house prices, which we are already 40% of the way to achieving, could extend to a...
Christopher Joye
Coolabah Capital
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Falling house prices: hype and reality

If house prices are falling as rapidly as some headlines impute, can we expect this to impact AREIT investors? Let’s begin by looking at the facts, rather than the...
Michael Doble
Michael Doble
APN Property Group
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Imagine Chadstone or Westfield on a Sunday with triple the crowds

Imagine you lead the investment arm of a global property investment company. One day, your boss walks in. She wants you to find a site to build a new shopping centre....
Patrick O'Reilly
Patrick O'Reilly
APN Property Group
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Australia's premium shopping centre portfolio

Australia's premium shopping centre portfolio, Scentre Group, owns great real estate in a sector that has huge barriers to entry (for their better retail assets), in...
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Michael Doble
Michael Doble
APN Property Group
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Aventus: What the market is overlooking

Aventus Retail Property Fund offers a quality, active management team that is consistently seeking to maximise returns from a well-diversified portfolio of assets...
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Pete Morrissey
Dexus
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Retail property Armageddon

Everyone shops on the Internet these days, don’t they? That’s why Armageddon looms for retailers and therefore investors in retail property. If you’re looking for a...
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Michael Doble
Michael Doble
APN Property Group
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5 reasons housing prices to keep falling

The current 25-year credit cycle has seen Australian household leverage rates move to record levels versus all other developed markets. This degree of leverage is...
Tim Hannon
Tim Hannon
Conrad Capital Group
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Can’t Trump this sector

It’s getting predictable isn’t it? The Donald tweets, the rest of the world reacts and equity markets shudder. Blame the 24-hour news cycle, event driven macro...
Michael Doble
Michael Doble
APN Property Group
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Why sheds and beds are hot property

Believe it or not, sheds and beds are the two places top commercial property investors would put their next dollar. Or, if recent transactions are any guide, their...
Corrine Ng
Dexus
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AREITs – The World Game

Many sports fans are currently in the grip of World Cup fever, nocturnal creatures obsessively drinking in every minute of soccer’s greatest tournament, even if it no...
Mark Mazzarella
Dexus
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How to win Monopoly in 3 easy steps

Monopoly is the ultimate real estate game, but it also has some important lessons for real life property investors. In Monopoly, there are three things that determine...
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A lower risk way to invest in Asia

Contrary to what one may assume, Asian listed property trusts have a strong governance framework that essentially makes them passive ‘rent collection’ vehicles for...
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Better than Westfield

It may surprise you, but the assets within Asia’s listed property trust are as good, if not higher, quality than those found within Australian REITS, says Corrine Ng...
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The fastest growing opportunity in real estate

The Asian listed property trust sector can’t be ignored. From inception in 2001, it is a sector worth around $260 billion today. With growth now twice that of the US...
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Conventional wisdom is wrong. Rate rises are good for property trusts

April was a month of streaks. The Prime Minister’s 30th straight loss in the polls dominated headlines, the Reserve Bank’s 89th consecutive month without a rate...
Mark Mazzarella
Dexus
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Size matters – Sydney’s office market shrinks while Melbourne booms

In the last decade, Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane and Perth have become home to an additional 3 million people*. The rate of growth is unlikely to abate, either....
Michael Doble
Michael Doble
APN Property Group
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Westfield shareholders have little to fear and much to gain

In December last year, Unibail-Rodamco (a major European listed property trust) made an offer to purchase Westfield Corporation. The offer to Westfield shareholders is...
Michael Doble
Michael Doble
APN Property Group
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