Latest Hotspotting Podcast Episodes
The Myth of the Mortgage Cliff
Hotspotting - October 16, 2023 08:07 - 3 minutesIt’s a reality of modern life that most of the impending disasters forecast by news media never happen – and that is particularly so in the property industry. Recent years have been full of startling headlines of a collapse of property prices, including in 2020 when Covid struck Australia an...
The Exodus Continues
Hotspotting - October 16, 2023 08:02 - 3 minutesAustralia has just recorded its highest population growth in 20 years. And the data about which areas of the nation are growing the fastest shows that the trend we call the Exodus to Affordable Lifestyle is continuing strongly. Western Australia and Queensland continue to be national leaders...
Riding the Wave: The Perfect Storm for Property Investors and Real Estate Growth
Hotspotting - October 16, 2023 07:59 - 6 minutesUsually the term “a perfect storm” refers to a highly negative scenario. One definition says a perfect storm is “an especially bad situation caused by a combination of unfavourable circumstances”. I’d like to turn that around, because right now there’s a perfect storm of scenarios impacting...
Sydney Soars: Leading the Resurgence of Australia's Property Market in 2023
Hotspotting - October 09, 2023 04:05 - 3 minutesProperty markets across Australia have grown stronger as 2023 has progressed. And this notable resurgence has been led by Sydney, which we regard as the leading market in the nation. It is the market with the strongest data on sales activity, slightly ahead of Perth, and it’s also a na...
Reviving Regional NSW
Hotspotting - October 09, 2023 04:03 - 2 minutesRegional NSW is part of the emerging recovery theme which dominates the national real estate scene, although its revival is perhaps a little less emphatic than some of the other states. Earlier in the year, when Hotspotting conducted its Winter survey of sales activity, only a third of Reg...
How to find the most affordable investment Hotspots in 2023 with Terry Ryder & Tim Graham
Hotspotting - September 29, 2023 00:48 - 1 hourAttention all savvy property investors! Are you looking for the most affordable investment hotspots in 2023? Then catch our recent webinar hosted by Hotspotting.com.au's Terry Ryder and Tim Graham. Hotspotting's latest research and analysis on real estate markets has yielded an encouraging out...
Misleading Headlines
Hotspotting - September 25, 2023 05:36 - 4 minutesNews media is always happy to sensationalise an issue or embellish the facts to make sales but sometimes they go beyond what has always been known in the journalism industry as a beat-up. Sometimes, indeed increasingly often, what we are presented with is an outright lie – with journalists happy...
PIPA and Investors
Hotspotting - September 25, 2023 05:33 - 4 minutesI recently attended the annual national conference in Sydney of PIPA, the Property Investment Professionals of Australia. In many ways this is the most important organisation in Australia in terms of finding solutions to one of the nation’s most pressing problems, the rental shortage. PIPA compr...
Mad Max
Hotspotting - September 19, 2023 06:20 - 4 minutesThe person in the image behind me is Australia’s dumbest and most dangerous politician. I know that’s a pretty big statement, because Australia is full of politicians who are none too bright and who have ideas and policies which would be extremely damaging if they everbecame law – particularly o...
How To Predict Real Estate Better Than Bank Economists
Hotspotting - September 17, 2023 23:51 - 1 hourThe key to success in property investment lies in identifying locations which will outperform the general market over time and pinpointing the right time to take action. Essentially this means forecasting events in markets across the nation. But is this realistically achievable for the average A...
Short-Stay Imposts
Hotspotting - September 12, 2023 01:23 - 5 minutesOne of the most dishonest and unethical things that politicians commonly do in this country is to find a way to increase taxes on specific sections of the Australian population - but present it to the public as a measure to improve life for ordinary people. We’re seeing this currently with attit...
Apartments
Hotspotting - September 12, 2023 01:09 - 3 minutesApartments are rapidly becoming the dwelling of choice for a majority of people in some of the key locations across the nation. More and more people are opting to buy apartments and other types of attached dwellings because of the low maintenance lifestyle and/or the lower buy-in prices. Right n...
Affordability Lies
Hotspotting - September 12, 2023 01:08 - 5 minutesMy business, which publishes the Hotspotting.com.au website, has a pretty simple philosophy in the pursuit of success: if we make our customers happy and/or satisfied, we’ll be successful. The idea is to be helpful to people trying to achieve an objective – for example, finding a good location t...
Inflation Coming Down Fast
Hotspotting - September 04, 2023 06:37 - 2 minutesThere are a couple of notable things about the latest inflation result. According to the ABS, annual inflation fell to 4.9% in July, down from 5.4% in June and the high of 7.8% in late 2022. This is good news overall, because it means the level of price increases in many items, including food, i...
Index Records Dramatic Revival in Real Estate Markets
Hotspotting - September 04, 2023 06:33 - 3 minutesOverwhelmingly the theme of property markets across Australia is one of recovery. Hotspotting’s new Spring 2023 survey of sales activity throughout the nation shows that most of the cities and regional markets which had been in decline are now moving emphatically into a phase of revival. Sydney,...
Government Housing Target Is Fanciful
Hotspotting - September 04, 2023 06:31 - 4 minutesIn keeping with the great tradition in Australian politics of providing window dressing rather than real solutions, the political leadership has created a media opportunity but no resolution of the housing shortage crisis. Right now, what this country needs is real policies to encourage and ince...
Canberra The Market To Avoid
Hotspotting - September 04, 2023 06:24 - 4 minutesThe general theme for property markets around Australia is recovery, with many cities and regional markets mounting significant revivals in their markets as the year has evolved. But there’s one major market that I would avoid as an investor – Canberra. This is a market that looks increasingly u...
Webinar - Tune Out the Noise & Tune In to the Experts - w Miriam Sandkuhler
Hotspotting - August 30, 2023 03:39 - 1 hourTune Out the Noise & Tune In to the Experts Legendary writer Rudyard Kipling suggested that “if you can keep your head when all around you are losing theirs” you will succeed where others fail. He wasn’t thinking of Australian real estate when he wrote those words but they apply...
Spring Is Not Best
Hotspotting - August 28, 2023 05:44 - 4 minutesEvery year around August, real estate agents and news media start chattering about the upcoming “Spring selling season”. The general theme is that this is the best time to sell, because flowers will be blooming and there will be optimism in the air as temperatures rise. But the same people who p...
Regional Victoria
Hotspotting - August 28, 2023 05:27 - 3 minutesWe’ve seen significant improvement in markets across Regional Victoria recently, as the state joins the recovery momentum seen in many markets across Australia. Our latest survey of market activity shows that, in Regional Victoria, the revival has gone to another level lately. Our research shows...
Mortgage Cliff
Hotspotting - August 22, 2023 03:11 - 4 minutesHere’s a quick quiz to see whether you’ve been paying attention lately. Question one: How many times have predictions of things like property prices falling off a cliff appeared in media headlines in the past, say, three years? Question two: How many times have things actually gone ahead an...
Melbourne Recovery
Hotspotting - August 22, 2023 03:09 - 7 minutesThe Melbourne market has staged a remarkable turnaround, transitioning from a struggling market to one showing promise of considerable buoyancy in the near future. Three months ago we reported the first signs of recovery across Greater Melbourne markets, but our latest quarterly survey of sa...
Housing Solution
Hotspotting - August 22, 2023 03:01 - 4 minutesI should be accustomed to watching politicians failing to fix problems, but somehow I can never get used to it. The capacity for Australian politicians to blunder when we need them to excel is quite extraordinary. And I think part of the problem is that politicians are really only interest...
Webinar - Ignore The Media & Invest For Profit w Danny Buxton from Triple Zero Property
Hotspotting - August 16, 2023 03:48 - 1 hourSmart property investment decisions are best made by tuning out the news media. Media is relentlessly negative, often fuelled by pessimistic forecasts from economists whose track records in predicting real estate outcomes is woefully bad. An online columnist, in reviewing the latest ...
Short Term Changes Don't Matter
Hotspotting - August 14, 2023 07:12 - 4 minutesMedia loves to place great significance on insignificant data, with month-to- month changes in prices, rents, vacancies and building approvals given implications and connotations that they simply don’t deserve. The advice, as always, is to ignore them.
Airbnb Is Not The Problem
Hotspotting - August 14, 2023 07:08 - 4 minutesSome property owners use short-term letting rather than long-term residential tenants and they’ve been blamed by some in politics for the rental shortage – but an independent university study has confirmed what we already know, that Airbnb has not caused the national rental shortage crisis.
National Top 10 Best Buys
Hotspotting - August 14, 2023 07:03 - 5 minutesThe history of residential real estate in Australia is, in one sense, a story of defiance. Economists and journalists keep predicting dire outcomes and property markets keep proving them wrong. 2023 has provided a wonderful case study for that. The year began with a plethora of predictions from ...
Should we be listening any more?
Hotspotting - August 08, 2023 01:14 - 3 minutesA journalist on a national publication recently asked this question: “Should we be listening any more?” The writer was referring to the latest property price forecasts from National Australia Bank and pointed out NAB’s terrible record on predicting house prices. I wholeheartedly agree. I wish mo...
The Arrogance of Dictator Dan
Hotspotting - August 08, 2023 00:55 - 6 minutesDictator Dan Andrews, Premier of Victoria, leads Australia on a number of issues. When it comes to arrogance, incompetence, dishonesty and bad governance, there’s no politician anywhere in Australia, at any level of government, who can match Dan in any of those areas. Announcing this time last y...
Apartments Tipped To Rise
Hotspotting - August 08, 2023 00:50 - 5 minutesReal estate research data is telling an increasingly strong story for apartment markets across Australia. Apartments, so long considered inferior to houses on land for investment solidity and long- term capital growth, are mounting a serious challenge to the supremacy of houses in the minds of A...
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