A new year, the same old question on everyone’s mind, what will happen in the Sydney property market? Rather than falling, prices have...

Is it possible to have your avocado and eat it? Apparently not, as the habit of eating overpriced toast with topping has been linked to...

Australians are world champions in household debt. As of last year, just before the COVID crisis hit, the household debt-to-income ratio...

Benjamin Franklin coined the phrase that there are two certainties in life – death and taxes. Due to the Government engineered property...

The number of vacant rental properties in Sydney has swollen to an estimated 30,000, and tenants who can afford it are on the move. I...

Did you know that Australians are twice more likely to die of cold related causes than people in Sweden? And also, more Australians die...

Australia is a young country still finding its place in the world. National identity is largely built on a number of myths, which...

Have you noticed that the real estate lobby has been out in force in recent days, sending calming messages to investors and home owners. ...

You might have seen the headlines this week of a landlord threatening and preventing the tenant from leaving until he paid up. (E.g. ABC...

The rise of small scale real estate agents dabbling in property management goes hand in hand with the increase in mum & dad investors in...

For the first time in living history, it would be fair to say that the tables are turning in Sydney’s tenant – landlord relationship. For...

Once you’re renting, you will have no choice but become as bit of a hobby lawyer, casually quoting from the Residential Privacy Act....

My grandmother in Germany has been renting all her life. She never considered buying a place. Even on her widow pension, she can...

The problems with mum & dad investors relate to their views of tenants as cash cows to pay for their mortgage, refusal to carry out basic...

A serial renter, sociologist by training and a progressive by heart, I moved to Sydney from Germany in 2006. Having grown up in a house...

Temperatures are dropping in Sydney, and renters are more exposed to the cold than their home owning brethren. A friend told me recently...