Originally posted by The Mortgage Adviser:
By bringing the charts, I meant you might be able to bring us some luck and get some increasing rents.

Oh well, here’s hoping.

The Mortgage Adviser
robert@mortgagepackaging.com.au
Ph: 0414 347 771

Comments made are of a general nature and should not be construed as advice to any particular…[Read more]

It won’t be necessary to bring my charts to Melbourne/Sydney, I believe you.

But these cycles take a bit longer than a few months to play out, as you know. Give it a bit more time. The property market hasn’t corrected anywhere near what it will…either by crash or by an extended plateau, who knows. Property prices are still at boom levels even…[Read more]

LOL Monopoly,

I shoulda kept my big mouth shut!!! I may have just sparked a further exodus of plumbers.

I must admit, a quick perusal of the help wanted ads in my area of expertise has left me plotting out a C.V.

But that would mean driving to work every day[ohno2]….”I think I better think it out again”…

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Yep,

In booming markets, rents tend to grow less quickly, even stagnate, or go backwards slightly.

In flat/down markets rents tend to grow more quickly.

I have long term charts that illustrate this. As property prices oscillate about the long term value trend line, rent oscillates with an opposing cycle.

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Speaking of pay rises, I hear plumbers around London are charging 90POUNDS an hour[shocked][shocked][shocked][shocked][shocked][shocked]…..If they happen to show up[blink]…Oh now you’ve got me saying it Monopoly!

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Originally posted by Fern:
What I’m getting at is there will be a hell of a lot less energy to go around, and at a very high cost COMPARED to oil.

Fern, this is exactly the point the Pollyanna’s are missing.

Even if there were some alternative, viable and cheap energy source. The cost and upheaval to change over, is well beyond peoples…[Read more]

I didn’t feel I was enjoying life to the fullest without my favourite foods. And it was a lot of effort.

My motto now is, I just eat and drink what I like, but eat the bad things in moderation.
I like keeping it simple, no stressing about what I should or shouldn’t consume.

Good comment Celivia. Eating healthily can be very stressful, and…[Read more]

Originally posted by wrappack:
Best thing to drink – water or milk. At least if you are drinking milk you are getting heaps of nutrients, vitamins, etc, and at a fraction of the price.

http://www.notmilk.com/kradjian.html

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Originally posted by Nat R:
Keep in mind if the price of petrol in Australia tripled (which is sort of what you would expect if oil tripled) then it would still be cheaper than petrol in the UK an most of Europe.

Nat,

You had better give your calculator a whack.

A google search revealed the following:

On 8-Jun-04 the price of the unleaded…[Read more]

very poor journalism i thought[thumbsdownanim

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>>Latham has not put forward any sustainable policy that would not require massive tax increases somewhere along the line.<<

And property investors seem to be an easy mark at the moment. Recent actions lead me to believe that there may be an attempt to cool the property market via taxation rather than interest rates.

Bahamas looking good…[Read more]

A bit of trivia for us pedants[specs]

“The word ‘snobbery’ came into use for the first time in England during the 1820’s. It was said to derive from the habit of many Oxford and Cambridge colleges of writing sine nobilitate (without nobility) or ‘s.nob. next to names of ordinary students on examination lists in order to distinguish them from…[Read more]

hey Aussie,

>>”When the crisis comes there will be enormous changes.”<<

…and Prechters depression.

Thanks for posting that. I think everybody should make contingency plans in case this does happen.

We certainly are.

Boy am I glad I don’t have to drive to work. Not that my ’64 beetle 1200 uses much juice anyway.…[Read more]

Originally posted by kay henry:
[Wayne, as a matter of interest, you invest in IP’s, yes? I know you do shares also, but are you into property? Will you be buying in this flatter market, wayne?

kay henry

Kay,

At present I don’t own any property at all. Sold up late last year. Missus owns three properties in England. Two 4 bed detached houses…[Read more]

Originally posted by WallFlower:
Girls! Girls! Girls!

It’s all about sugar, Do you what epidemic is gripping the world right now, Diabeties !!!

Unfortunately we eat way to many refined carbohydrates, yup, RICE PASTA BREAD TIM TAMS…all of it gets turned into sugar as soon as it hits our bodies and if we don’t burn it off it gets stored as fat.…[Read more]

Originally posted by JetDollars:
Some would say Property market would outperform shares market and vice versa, but the reality is depend on what property or shares you buy.

If you buy AMP a few years back and comparing to buying property in Sydney then you know which one do better. But if you buy property in a none performance area comparing to…[Read more]

Originally posted by Monopoly:
Originally posted by WallFlower:

Hello..?
how’s this for normal…
Dishes sitting in sink
Husband says ‘should i do the dishes’
Wife says’ oh no, don’t worry, I’LL do them’
Husband says’ok ‘ and goes and watches TV
Wife doesn’t speak to husband for three days…
You blokes just don’t get it…do you

Hey…[Read more]

My wife thinks I know even less.
But I know exactly how to get in trouble…just act normal. hehehehe

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Median property price vs All Ordinaries Index…why they cannot be compared.

It’s apples and oranges folks.

With property, only raw selling price is taken into consideration. There are a myriad of expenses and capital expenditures which are not accounted for in this raw data.

Lets take the example of a hypothetical single property which by an…[Read more]

Originally posted by Derek:

This gives you a 20 year snapshot – Steve Navra argues that any further back than this and your statistics are unreliable because of the significantly changed economic and social conditions as compared to today. He argues 10 years (?from memory)is a little too long ago too.

So it’s different this time?

This is what…[Read more]