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    Will Sydney property prices rise in 2021 against the odds
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    • Jan 13, 2021
    • 4 min

    Will Sydney property prices rise in 2021 against the odds

    A new year, the same old question on everyone’s mind, what will happen in the Sydney property market? Rather than falling, prices have...
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    Millennials more smashed than avocado by Australia’s crazy property prices
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    • Aug 25, 2020
    • 4 min

    Millennials more smashed than avocado by Australia’s crazy property prices

    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...
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    COVID puts Australia’s house of cards on shaky grounds
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    • Aug 7, 2020
    • 4 min

    COVID puts Australia’s house of cards on shaky grounds

    Australians are world champions in household debt. As of last year, just before the COVID crisis hit, the household debt-to-income ratio...
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    Taxing times for renters
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    • Jul 26, 2020
    • 4 min

    Taxing times for renters

    Benjamin Franklin coined the phrase that there are two certainties in life – death and taxes. Due to the Government engineered property...
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    3 Top Tips to find a better and more affordable Sydney rental property
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    • Jul 18, 2020
    • 4 min

    3 Top Tips to find a better and more affordable Sydney rental 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...
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    Poor housing to blame for Australians dying at twice the rate of Swedes from cold
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    • Jul 10, 2020
    • 3 min

    Poor housing to blame for Australians dying at twice the rate of Swedes from cold

    Did you know that Australians are twice more likely to die of cold related causes than people in Sweden? And also, more Australians die...
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    3 common myths about the great Australian property dream dispelled
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    • Jul 6, 2020
    • 3 min

    3 common myths about the great Australian property dream dispelled

    Australia is a young country still finding its place in the world. National identity is largely built on a number of myths, which...
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    How to be a better landlord and retain quality tenants
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    • Jun 28, 2020
    • 3 min

    How to be a better landlord and retain quality tenants

    Have you noticed that the real estate lobby has been out in force in recent days, sending calming messages to investors and home owners. ...
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    Collapsing Sydney rental market increases landlord angst
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    • Jun 21, 2020
    • 2 min

    Collapsing Sydney rental market increases landlord angst

    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...
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    How real estate agents have been sucking on the teat of the property investment boom
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    • Jun 13, 2020
    • 4 min

    How real estate agents have been sucking on the teat of the property investment boom

    The rise of small scale real estate agents dabbling in property management goes hand in hand with the increase in mum & dad investors in...
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    COVID-19 is creating a renters’ market – let’s not waste the opportunity
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    • Jun 13, 2020
    • 3 min

    COVID-19 is creating a renters’ market – let’s not waste the opportunity

    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...
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    How to defend your rights as a tenant (legally)
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    • Jun 8, 2020
    • 3 min

    How to defend your rights as a tenant (legally)

    Once you’re renting, you will have no choice but become as bit of a hobby lawyer, casually quoting from the Residential Privacy Act....
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    The future of renting in Sydney
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    • Jun 8, 2020
    • 3 min

    The future of renting in Sydney

    My grandmother in Germany has been renting all her life. She never considered buying a place. Even on her widow pension, she can...
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    The rise of Australia’s Mum and Dad investors
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    • Jun 8, 2020
    • 2 min

    The rise of Australia’s Mum and Dad investors

    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...
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    Manifesto of the Sydney Renter
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    • Jun 8, 2020
    • 2 min

    Manifesto of the Sydney Renter

    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...
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    You've been vertically blinded
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    • Jun 8, 2020
    • 2 min

    You've been vertically blinded

    Temperatures are dropping in Sydney, and renters are more exposed to the cold than their home owning brethren. A friend told me recently...
    26 views0 comments

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