I often wonder where some of you guys get your info from or if you just selectively read pro property media stuff to keep your spirits up.

“Bank of Queensland Ltd., Bendigo & Adelaide Bank Ltd. and CUA say they’ll seek AOFM support with future mortgage bond sales.‘Challenges are likely to continue in 2012,’ said Brisbane-based Tim Ledingh…[Read more]

Paullie wrote:
Hi FreckleHouse is brock and tile, obviously insulated roof as we spoke about. We dont have concrete floors its all wood, house isnt perfectly orientated thats for sure… It would definately be the thermal mass of  the bricks re-introducing the heat inside, but how do you prevent the bricks from heating up ? You cant cover the…[Read more]

>>>Yes perhaps a more interesting graph, how would we tell?

I sometimes wonder if you are a sharp a tac as you make out. If you can’t get your head around the consequences of the supplied graph then you can’t be taken seriously. Do you think property operates in isolation to the rest of the economy?

>>>A snapshot in time of the QLD (Brisbane)…[Read more]

Paullie wrote:
I hate my insulation, I preferred it without. In summer wifey has the aircon on, then mid afternoon turns it off, the house heats up, and the only way to get the heat out of the house it to turn the aircon back on, whereas previously, it stayed cool because it was cooler outside.

I think you need to do physics 101 again. Rule of…[Read more]

You definitely need to take control

I’m not up with it as far as the legal requirements (in Aus) go but you need to put yourself or a suitably qualified person in as the project manager and that person to be in charge of purchasing (materials) and payments to contractors. In effect you become the primary contractor and everyone else a subby. The…[Read more]

Source http://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2012/02/parko-meet-petard/

Perhaps a far more interesting graph. Now tell me things will keep on booming!! I could produce dozens of graphs that give a far more realistic picture of macro and micro economic conditions than a flimsy speculative assessment of a snapshot in time regarding QLD markets.

If…[Read more]

Freckle wrote:
Just the bugs I noticed;

Residential, Rural etc link bar on front page not working. Initially thought there were no listings until I hit search.

Description text doubles up when opening ad

Pic box defaults to top of screen – never seen this before. Became annoying after a while

Pic box resizes to pic instead of the other way…[Read more]

Just the bugs I noticed;

Residential, Rural etc link bar on front page not working. Initially thought there were no listings until I hit search.

Description text doubles up when opening ad

Pic box defaults to top of screen – never seen this before. Became annoying after a while

Pic box resizes to pic instead of the other way around

Webinars -…[Read more]

Hello Steve. I always admire the motivation and enthusiasm of entrepreneurs. Been there done that so I can relate to the way you feel about your baby.

Net marketing is something I know well having pitched our (an IT colleague) first concept to supermarkets (online shopping) back in 97.

One of the major problems we as entrepreneurs face is we are…[Read more]

It’s an interesting tool not unlike Gumtree. I’m not sure what your point of differentiation is though. If it’s simply the ability to add one’s own description and photos then it’s just another Gumtree. Problem is that 99% of ppl are lousy marketers. Just look at Gumtree. The descriptions are pretty ordinary and the pics in many are an absolute…[Read more]

For foreign investors exchange rate performance would also have to be factored in. The long term outlook for the $US is not good. The Fed is determined to inflate their way to minimising debt. Along with many other currencies. It’s likely we’ll see decline and stagnation within the US economy for decades to come. Downside risk is high in the US RE…[Read more]

You can’t extract meaningful data from such a small time frame. Too many variables that spike the data (up or down). Smooth the mean over 1,2,5,&10yrs time frames to give yourself some perspective for short to long term trends.

The Freckle

Some things go up some things go down.

http://www.miningaustralia.com.au/news/bhp-sheds-155-nickel-workers

The Pilbara’s in a fairly significant expansion phase at the moment, Rio, FMG and BHP plus several smaller miners. The problem will be when these expansions are completed over the next few years. I’m guessing there’ll be bit of a…[Read more]

Catalyst wrote:
Certainly not Sydney. We're moving nicely thanks.

Sydney has it’s problems too Cat. The advantage Sydney offers though is that it is a National as well as State capital. Areas of Washington DC were one of the few areas of the US to continue to rise in a crashing market.

The risk for Sydney is the coming white collar recession.…[Read more]

tiger_ra wrote:
Freckle – how else can we make money then !

How you make money and from where is the challenge we all face. Some are more successful than others and some just do their dough.

Negative gearing however is not the way to go. The objective is to make money not loose it so we can claw a lesser amount back from the ATO.

The Freckle

Pat007 wrote:
Still.. being a foreign bank to Australia , they may be more inclined to loan on overseas investments.worth keeping an eye on i think !

Depends on risk. The Japs got smashed in their PI market and have never recovered. I’d expect them to be risk averse and look for the cream in our market. Still if they do come it’ll be through…[Read more]

tiger_ra wrote:
yes but its in hopes of making $2 extra in the future!

So we’ll definitely do our dough today and hope to make it up later.

You been reading Homer Simpson’s ‘How to Grow Rich by Loosing Money”…. go on you can tell us

The Freckle

Mark Bouris stirring the pot again.

http://www.theadviser.com.au/breaking-news/6559-foreign-banks-would-fail-to-compete-resi

I wouldn’t get too excited about the Japs coming. If it was as easy as some make out and the profits there for the taking they’d have been here years ago.

The Freckle