John Howard will be looking for somewhere to live and  Kevin Rudd might rent out his house in Norman Park Brisbane.

Bossdog, I have looked at a few buy and hold deals in Sippy Downs and have been following the market closely but bought elsewhere. My friend has bought an IP there June 06 2 year old 4/2/2 360k rented at $390 and I will be seriouly considering buying one there when I am ready to buy again.  The prices are increasing since I have been looking and…[Read more]

Compounding interest makes a big difference to the earlier calculations both in gain and ROI and if you borrow the lot what does that do to the ROI or CoC?There is risk in everything you could play it safe and do nothing.I  have no problem borowing the lot for houses but dont have the nerve to do that with shares.At least its legal and if it d…[Read more]

Adelaide Rental Yields (September quarter, 2007)Suburb   Median House Price        Rent    YieldSmithfield Plains$162,250$2235.72%Munno Para$181,750$2325.31%Holden Hill$200,000$2334.85%Hackham West$215,000$2474.78%Pooraka$266,000$2994.68%Hackham$220,000$2474.67%Gawler South$225,000$2484.59%Trott Park$275,000$3034.58%Huntfield Heights$225…[Read more]

If you go for Brissie try Beenleigh and surrounds in south and Morayfiled in North under 300k cheapie listings are in Quest local newspaper

Morningside, Norman Park, Murarrie, Newmarket, Highgate Hill, Ashgrove you would get a really nice house for 900K.You could proabaly get a good house for that in Bulimba, Hawthorn and East Brisbane. I did for less.although that was 10 months ago.

Sippy Downs is performing well although not CF+ve and defintely worth a look if you are going to Noosa. Rent very strong good long term tenants as they want in the school catchment

Katrina, PM me with investment detalis and I will send you the holding cost report.

We are also now in the cycle of metal and this has been very auspicious for me being in pipelines and I am working on the aquisition of a steel importation company fingers crossed

I am the great Master from Jockland, I know a little about it If  I am reading it right then if you were to live in this house not good as you are strong earth and brick home is earth to much earth.

I dont know if I would pay extra 10k just becasue its brick, two houses are rarely identical assuming its an IP if you put it into a property calcualtor then look at the ROI that might be the best acceptance criteria.  If you dont have a property calculator PM me with the details purchase cots, rent, rateas, approx building value, tax treatment…[Read more]

Good to hear from you Worldchanger and even better to hear that your US stuff is coming along and your out there doing it.  I think the fact that you are out there and are supervising things is the only way to do it.  The Habitat thing what a ripper you always were humane, I am going to a wedding in NYC next year and the groom wants to do the b…[Read more]

I have a couple of Queenslanders that have been renovated and built underneath they were both purchased as PPR and they go well with my furniture which is large antique and I just like them and being from the UK their character appeals to me more than a brick dwelling.  In Chinese astrology my element is fire and my wife is weak wood so a wooden h…[Read more]

visual, the way to do it is to retype it into excel as this also cuts all the fluff out and you cant sort etc it works real well and I just emailed one to you that fell of of the back of a lorry.  I would be interested in chucking in a few bob but I have just bought and since the areas I am looking at has 15% per year for the next 8 year I will…[Read more]

Milly, all I can say about Residex is that their forecasts have stood the test of time and they have always got it right. There are many ways to skin the cat using Residex to identify locations is one of them as is centrally located so each to their own, there is no right and wrong.  Me personally I use their research to identify location and t…[Read more]

Guan, March 07

Here is a well known forecasters listing of top ranking qld suburbs for growth about 6 months old now and interesting enough they are forecasting that for Brisbane the northern corridor will have better growth than the southern or western corridor.  I bought in Ningi they forecast 15% a year for next 8 years.1 Sandstone Point 2 Munruben 3 Pelican…[Read more]

Hajda, try Morayfield a wee bit further out but a very high growth area according to Residex.  You should be be able to get a 3 bedroom, brick and tile carport post 85 good size block within your budget. There are a lot of out of state investors buying there now with multiple offers coming in for these types of properties so you will need to get…[Read more]

Kieran Trass has published a very interesting book titled the property cycle. Amongst other things he says that interest rates are not a driver in the property cycle. His book also suggests that  right now some cities are in the upturn phase of the cycle which is consistent with other progress reports and what prices are doing certainly in the…[Read more]

Why dont you tell the forum where ?  If you did you might find that the others for sale in the area would sell real quick and even drive the prices up.