Latest Hotspotting Podcast Episodes
Pulse Update Yields
Hotspotting - August 08, 2023 00:17 - 3 minutesOne of the most significant things happening in property markets across Australia is that rental yields are continuing to rise even in markets where prices are rising. What that means is that rents are rising faster than prices, in many locations. I’ve been working recently on updating the d...
Regional Movers Index
Hotspotting - August 08, 2023 00:14 - 7 minutesThe latest data on population movements shows that the key demographic trend of the 21st Century, the one we call the Exodus to Affordable Lifestyle, is still very much alive and pumping. And one of the key drawcards to people making the move is the number of jobs on offer in regional areas, cou...
Perth Still Leads
Hotspotting - August 08, 2023 00:09 - 2 minutesPerth continues to be Australia’s strongest property market, with a busy and competitive housing scene and rising prices. The key information for real estate consumers is that Perth remains a long way short of having fulfilled its potential for growth. There’s still plenty of price rises to come...
Revolutionising Contract Management with Andrew Tiernan from Pathways Digital
Hotspotting - August 02, 2023 04:01 - 47 minutesPathways Digital provides transparency and certainty to the contract and agreement process for teams and their customers. This includes everything before signing, and the management of the resulting obligations for all parties. The platform helps organisations to store and manage all contract do...
NAB Quarterly Survey
Hotspotting - August 01, 2023 01:56 - 3 minutesThe NAB Residential Property Index is forecasting price growth this year and next year – and that’s significant because it’s rare for this report to find any thing positive to say about Australian real estate. NAB has been publishing this quarterly index report for many years and its hallmark ...
Media Creates Alarm Not Solutions
Hotspotting - July 25, 2023 02:29 - 4 minutesAnyone who is puzzled by the behaviour of major news media can achieve a better understanding if they get this simple proposal: media isn’t interested in helping us or informing us – their goal is to alarm us or downright scare us. And news media doesn’t particularly care whether the material ...
Dictator Dan Cancels The Games
Hotspotting - July 25, 2023 02:27 - 3 minutesWhile the decision by the Premier of Victoria Dictator Dan Andrews to scrap the 2026 Commonwealth Games is extraordinary, it is also in one sense unsurprising. Because that’s the way Dan Andrews runs his state, with policy on a whim according to the mood of the all-powerful Premier. It’s onl...
Politicians Keep Making Problems Worse
Hotspotting - July 25, 2023 02:22 - 8 minutesIf Australians fully realised the degree to which politicians have caused or exacerbated most of the major problems the nation faces, there would be rioting in the streets. The streets of our major cities would resemble the recent scenes in France if there was a full appreciation of the way po...
Apartments Challenge Houses
Hotspotting - July 25, 2023 02:01 - 8 minutesA July article declared 2023 to be “The Year of the Apartment”. At Hotspotting we agree that the year is seeing a growing body of evidence that apartments are emerging from the shadows of standalone houses as a worthy competitor for investment dollars. As at July 2023, apartments overall wer...
Success Belongs To The Independent Thinkers
Hotspotting - July 22, 2023 20:00 - 5 minutesMost Australians who invest in real estate fail to achieve their goal of creating a large and sustainable property portfolio. Over two million Australians own an investment property but 70% of them have just one property and another 18% have two. That’s nine out of ten with just one or two p...
How Long Does It Take To Double
Hotspotting - July 19, 2023 22:00 - 8 minutesHow long does it take for the value of real estate to double? This is a topic that media regularly reports, but never in a particularly informed or helpful way. Media often refers to the alleged “industry standard” that property doubles in value every 7- 10 years. According to writers on...
New Lending On The Rise
Hotspotting - July 18, 2023 08:00 - 3 minutesIt appears that investors are becoming more active in markets across Australia, based on the latest lending figures from the ABS. New lending to investors is certainly on the rise, with a 6.2% increase in May 2023. Lending to owner-occupiers saw a more modest increase of 4% during the month....
Creating Clickbait With A Lie
Hotspotting - July 18, 2023 02:59 - 7 minutesOne of the most popular and easy ways for property data companies to generate some free publicity for their business is to ask their computer system to spit out a list of locations which have had – allegedly –extraordinary price growth recently. It’s alarming how often these lists are published ...
Regional Queensland: A Standout Prospect for Buyers
Hotspotting - July 17, 2023 22:00 - 3 minutesRegional Queensland is a standout prospect for buyers of all kinds because it has so many locations that offer affordability, lifestyle and prospects for capital growth. There are numerous regional cities with strong economies, significant spending on infrastructure – and the possibility of bu...
Price Rises Not Surprising
Hotspotting - July 14, 2023 22:00 - 4 minutesOne of the things many media commentators have in common is that they assume that if they didn’t know something was happening, then nobody knew it was happening. It’s far better than admitting they were poorly informed about a subject on which they are claiming to be experts. We see this wit...
The Brisbane Property Market: A Place of Contradictions
Hotspotting - July 10, 2023 03:11 - 4 minutesThe Brisbane property market is a place of contradictions: it is currently a national leader on price growth at a time when sales activity is below par. This dichotomy arises because of one of the dominant factors driving real estate in this era of higher interest rates: shortages of everythin...
Life Appreciation & Property Depreciation - Terry Ryder with Tyron Hyde of Washington Brown
Hotspotting - July 04, 2023 06:09 - 1 hourWhat does depreciation of Australian real estate assets have in common with living a dream lifestyle in Bali? The answer is Tyron Hyde, who runs Australia's leading quantity surveying firm Washington Brown from a bamboo eco school on the iconic Indonesian island. As the nation's foremost ...
Tax Effective Investment Strategies with Shukri Barbara & Amir Ishak
Hotspotting - June 29, 2023 03:55 - 43 minutesAs we approach tax time, we wanted to bring 2 of the best property tax specialists in the country to assist our Hotspotting audience in learning about the most tax effective investment structures available today. Join Tim Graham of Hotspotting to discover the secrets to successful structur...
Turning Assets Into Retirement Income - Hosted by Tim Graham w Special Guest Sam Wakefield of Optalife
Hotspotting - June 26, 2023 23:57 - 58 minutesWe are delighted to have recently hosted Sam Wakefield of Optalife as a guest speaker in our webinar, “Turning Assets into Retirement Income”. In this comprehensive 45-minute session, Sam offered actionable advice on goal-setting, steps to understanding your current financial position, strategie...
It’s Not All About Interest Rates
Hotspotting - June 19, 2023 06:49 - 2 minutesYou have to wonder what needs to happen before economists and other usual suspects let go of their cherished theories about residential real estate prices. After the June rate rise by the Reserve Bank, the usual suspects are forecasting that this will cause prices to fall. The big bank econo...
Where Is It A Good Time To Buy?
Hotspotting - June 19, 2023 06:45 - 3 minutesThe right question is: WHERE is it a good time to buy real estate in Australia. Because in this vast country, with so many different places and market scenarios playing out, it’s always a good time to buy SOMEWHERE. At Hotspotting, we’ve just completed the work on the Winter edition of The P...
Adelaide Stands Out
Hotspotting - June 12, 2023 22:00 - 4 minutesThe consistently solid performance for which Adelaide is now renowned is evident in the results of our latest survey of sales activity. Indeed, our survey has found the highest number of consistency locations in Adelaide in the eight years of our quarterly surveys – and it’s this steadiness ...
The Record Shows That Property Markets Thrive Amid Interest Rate Rises
Hotspotting - June 12, 2023 05:31 - 6 minutesI’m constantly startled at how much commentary in the media about property markets comes from individuals and organisations with very limited understanding the topic. Real estate consumers in Australia – many of whom unfortunately rely on news media for market information – are constantly bese...
Regional Markets Have Outperformed Cities On Capital Growth
Hotspotting - June 12, 2023 05:26 - 3 minutesRegional markets have been the best performers on capital growth over the past five years, outperforming the capital cities. This is another strong piece of evidence which refutes one of those persistent misconceptions that many Australians cling to – that you have to buy in the biggest cities...
National Top 10 Positive Cashflow Hotspots
Hotspotting - June 11, 2023 23:28 - 3 minutesFollowing the multiple interest rate rises of the past year, more and more property investorsare seeking to buy in places that offer high rental yields. The good news is that, even with significantly higher interest rates, if you select the right locations you can find properties with rental y...
The Top 50 Largest Cities In Australia
Hotspotting - June 09, 2023 22:00 - 6 minutesI wonder how many people would answer this question correctly: what’s the fastest growing city in Australia? Many people might consider Brisbane, maybe Perth, perhaps the Gold Coast. But the fastest-growing city is none of those places. The answer is the Warragul-Drouin region in Victoria....
The Doubling Game - Get Unlimited Borrowing Capacity Through “The Doubling Game”
Hotspotting - June 07, 2023 23:29 - 59 minutesMost investors cap out at 1 investment property because they are not aware of how to replenish their borrowing capacity. This webinar will be going over strategies on how to go about tapping into unlimited borrowing capacity for the everyday investor. “The Doubling Game” is a proven system tha...
Prices Continue To Rise In All Major Cities
Hotspotting - June 05, 2023 06:06 - 4 minutesOne word explains everything happening in real estate currently: shortage. There is a shortage of listings of properties for sale, which is pushing up prices at a time when economists told us to expect falling prices. In the March-April-May quarter, capital city house prices rose an average ...
We'll Work Until 70
Hotspotting - June 05, 2023 05:58 - 3 minutesThere are two very strong and important reasons why politicians need to encourage Australians to invest in residential real estate. The first and most immediate one is that this is the best and fastest solution to the rental shortage crisis. The second and more long-term reason is that, in a c...
State Politicians Have Caused The Shortage –And They’re Making It Worse
Hotspotting - June 03, 2023 20:00 - 4 minutesThe reasons for the rental shortage crisis and the consequent increases in rents can be summarised in two words: state politicians. The policies and actions of state governments across Australia have created the situation where we have too few rental properties in the market. And, showing th...
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