While the Finance Royal Commission in Australia has had a negative impact on bank customer satisfaction in Australia, particularly the big four, it appears that this has not generally been felt by the Australian banks operating in New Zealand. Michele Levine from Roy Morgan will...
I attended a breakfast meeting recently where Brisbane was highlighted as one of the markets in Australia that is going to do quite well this year. Momentum Wealth is also tipping Brisbane along with Perth as the markets to watch. Emma Everett from Momentum joins...
I want to tell you a success story about a young person who decided to get into property investment at age 19 and 9 years later he carries a portfolio with two million dollars of equity or 50% of its market worth. Daniel Walsh has...
Further to concerns that Labour may just win the next federal election and then fulfil their promise, or threat, of fiddling with negative gearing, there was a round table held in Canberra recently. The PIPA chairman, Peter Koulizos was invited to attend and he joins...
First home buyers in New Zealand have been paying the highest prices relative to each area's average property value, according to some research from CoreLogic and CoreLogic's property economist in New Zealand, Kelvin Davidson talks about that today. Transcripts: Kevin: First home buyers in New Zealand have...
Veronica Morgan has some serious concerns about the ALP's negative gearing policy. As she says - We love to find a culprit for why our kids can't afford to buy a home. First we blame Chinese investors, then self-managed superannuation fund investors. Now it's the...
Imagine dramatically cutting back your travel time to work each day and not having to move to do it. We will tell you about a website that brings together people with a vacant room and workers not wanting to travel. One of the founders of...
With the federal election heading our way in a matter of months and, likely to lead to a change of government, Labors negative gearing policies may not actually boost the volume of first home buyers in the market. Instead they might lead to a possible...
Michael Yang represents the biggest source of Chinese buyer introductions into our market and tells us why his clients can’t wait to get their hands on a piece of Aussie property. Transcripts: Kevin: Well, we do know, don't we, the importance of overseas buyers, and how important...