In this week’s episode we turned our thoughts to the property market and the multitude of forces that determine its trajectory. We look at the stabilisers, head winds and yes, even tail winds, despite what the mass media might have you believe!

In the seventh Podcast since Covid-19 took hold, we turned our thoughts to the alarmist headlines emerging, warning that the property market will drop by 20-30%. Why in all likelihood that won’t be the case by taking a critical eye to data and forecasting, and jumping in the time machine to look at the economic impact of previous pandemics and recessions on the property market.

In this week’s episode we turned our thoughts to focusing on planning for your next decision, as the governments start planning for, and in some cases such as WA and QLD, removing restrictions to open up the economy.

It takes time to develop your property plan and selection strategy for the next purchase. This all happens before you can even begin the searching process and get your finance approved.

In this week’s episode we turned our thoughts to focusing on the green shoots, sprouting here and there, marking the early signs of recovery. In the last week, state governments have been talking about lifting restrictions, sporting bodies have been working through their plan to get back on the field and elective surgeries are back on the agenda. These are just a few of the things that have the ability to impact market sentiment.

In this episode David Johnston, Cate Bakos and Peter Koulizos take you through what’s happening with residential and commercial landlords & tenants, vendors, Airbnb and your mortgage strategy

In this episode David Johnston, Cate Bakos and Peter Koulizos take you through markets starting to open up, why values won’t drop, but rental yields may not be so lucky. How ASIC has allowed switching to interest only without a full affordability assessment and mortgage repayment pauses.