How Much More Downside For Property Values?
This week has been a particularly important one in our offices as we have tried to answer the headline question – How much more downside is there left for property values?
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Australian Listed Real Estate Tables
FNArena provides a weekly update of Australian listed real estate trusts (REIT) and property developers, current pricing yield and valuation data.
Read MoreAustralian Listed Real Estate Tables
FNArena provides a weekly update of Australian listed real estate trusts (REIT) and property developers, current pricing yield and valuation data.
Read MoreOz Construction (In)Activity Worse Than Expected
Now here’s a bit of nasty news for the Reserve Bank and others – the value of construction work done across Australia in the final three months of 2018 fell by a sharp 3.1% to $51.603 billion (seasonally adjusted) instead of rising by 0.4% as forecast by the market.
Read MoreAustralian Listed Real Estate Tables
FNArena provides a weekly update of Australian listed real estate trusts (REIT) and property developers, current pricing yield and valuation data.
Read MoreMcGrath Confirms Weak Result, Soft Outlook
A not unexpected weak result from Sydney real estate agency, McGrath for the six months to the end of December, and a not unexpected weak forecast of ongoing tough property market conditions in the short term, thanks to the uncertainty caused by the NSW and federal elections.
Read MoreHome Lending Data Continues On A Downtrend Trend
As expected home lending fell sharply in December to be down sharply for 2018 as a whole as loans for apartments and units fell steeply followed loans for owner-occupiers.
Read MoreAV Jennings Confirms Weak H1
As it suggested in a warning in December, developer and home builder, AV Jennings has reported a sharp slide in first-half earnings, cut its interim dividend in half, but expressed confidence it will do better in the second half of the 2018-19 financial year,
Read MoreAustralian Listed Real Estate Tables
FNArena provides a weekly update of Australian listed real estate trusts (REIT) and property developers, current pricing yield and valuation data.
Read MoreAustralian Housing Q&A With Shane Oliver
A Q&A on the Australian housing downturn: what’s driving home prices down; how far will they fall; what’s the impact on the economy.
Read MoreInvesting For Income In Direct Property
As 2018 draws to a close with continued volatility in global equity markets, consistent returns and solid long-term growth are becoming increasingly difficult to find. Steven Hall, Head of Direct Property at Australian-based fund manager Charter Hall, proposes Direct Property as an asset class that may fill that bill.
Read MoreAustralian Listed Real Estate Tables
FNArena provides a weekly update of Australian listed real estate trusts (REIT) and property developers, current pricing yield and valuation data.
Read MoreHome Loan Data Confounds The Gloomsters
For all the talk of a home lending slump, the October housing finance figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics were something of a surprise – they rose, not fell as accepted wisdom in the market had them doing.
Read MoreIntroduction to Limited Recourse Borrowing Arrangements
Typically, a super fund cannot borrow as per the SIS Act, however by meeting specific criteria, the loan can be allowed and is designated a “limited recourse borrowing arrangement”.
Read MoreYield Starved Property Investors Eye NDIS
Is an Impact Investing opportunity that promises gross yields of 16% pa or more too good to be true?
Read MoreHeidelberg A Key Growth Suburb – Unique Local Growth Advantages
Heidelberg is located in the north-east local government area of Banyule and has emerged as a key growth suburb fuelled particularly by the burgeoning medical precinct of Austin Health encompassing the Austin Hospital, Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital, and the Royal Talbot Rehabilitation Centre.
Read MoreMelbourne Market Pauses But Drivers Remain Strong
Capital city housing markets have generally eased but the key underlying drivers of the Melbourne housing market remain the strongest of all the capitals.
Read MoreAustralian Listed Real Estate Tables
FNArena provides a weekly update of Australian listed real estate trusts (REIT) and property developers, current pricing yield and valuation data.
Read MoreSofter Property Market Sinks McGrath
A weak interim profit lies ahead for struggling real estate agency McGrath which yesterday reported a small loss for the first quarter of 2018-19 and all but admitted the company will not make a profit for the year to June 30 on an after-tax basis.
Read MoreAustralian Listed Real Estate Tables
FNArena provides a weekly update of Australian listed real estate trusts (REIT) and property developers, current pricing yield and valuation data.
Read MoreBlackstone Concedes To Oxford In Battle For Investa Office
After a long and intense tussle, Canada’s Oxford Properties has won the multi-billion dollar battle for control of Investa Office Fund (IOF).
Read MoreWhereto For Australian Home Prices & What’s The Impact On The Economy?
Prices are likely to perform a lot better in Adelaide, Brisbane, Canberra & Hobart as they have not seen anything like the boom in Sydney & Melbourne.
Read MoreAustralian Listed Real Estate Tables
FNArena provides a weekly update of Australian listed real estate trusts (REIT) and property developers, current pricing yield and valuation data.
Read MoreAre Home Building Stocks On Solid Ground?
The listed builders of detached dwellings are holding their own amid a stiffening housing downturn, with the ‘strength in adversity’ message emanating from their recent profit results.
Read MoreOffice Remains The Key Pick In A-REITs
The outlook for the A-REIT sector is relatively benign, as brokers note portfolio fundamentals are healthy and gearing is generally low.
Read MoreStockland set to spend $350 million buying back shares
Is yesterday’s buyback announcement from Stockland one of the more significant announcements from a key company in the Australian property sector- especially residential, retail and other commercial areas?
Read MoreHow E-Commerce is driving industrial property
In this Informed Investor video Steven Bennet, Head of Direct Property at Charter Hall examines the current dynamics of the industrial property market
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Australian Listed Real Estate Tables
Investors looking to diversify away from straight equity can invest in property as an alternative via direct investment, or by investing in units of listed or unlisted real estate investment trusts (REIT) or the shares of property developers.
Read MoreDomain Swings To Loss On House Cleaning
Fairfax Media’s Domain Holdings has engaged in a little house cleaning in first ever independent annual accounts with millions of dollars of write downs which produced a net loss for the year.
Read MoreRevaluations Underpin Mirvac Profit
A subdued reception from the market to yesterday’s 2017-18 annual results from property group Mirvac which revealed its third billion dollar result in as many years – thanks to some nice revaluations.
Read MoreSG Hiscock Discusses All Things Property
With so much uncertainty plaguing the residential property market at the moment, Informed Investor thought it a good time to sit down with SG Hiscock’s Grant Berry to discuss the broader property sector and Australian Real Estate Investment Trusts (AREITs) in particular.
Read MoreAccounting Delays Dent AVJennings
Shares in home builder, AVJennings fell 1.4% yesterday after the company produced what amounts to an earnings downgrade for 2017-18 ahead of the release of the full year results later this month.
Read MoreSearching For Value In Beaten Up Mortgage Brokers
With the mortgage broking sector already under the regulatory blowtorch, Mortgage Choice has added to the pain with revelations of unhappy franchisees. But is there value emerging in the marked down shares, as well as those of listed counterpart Australian Financial Group?
Read MoreA-REITs Score High On Yield, Certainty
Australian real estate investment trusts (A-REITs) have performed well recently and several A-REITs have re-affirmed FY18 guidance.
Read MoreAndrew Winter On Blue Chip Property
Blue chip property or is it Blue Chip location, the latter phrase is far more frequently referred to in the prime real estate market, yet I would argue that simply acquiring a property in a blue chip location alone is not enough to ensure your dollars are placed with less risk and assured strong returns.
Read MoreWhy REITs Are Set To Lose From The Coles Demerger
Moody’s credit rating group has given investors in some of the biggest names in shopping centres a timely head up about a possible pitfall from the mooted spin off of Coles by Wesfarmers.
Read MoreWhere Are We In The Unlisted Commercial Property Cycle?
Just as shares lead in the investment cycle, unlisted assets like commercial property, being more connected to the real economy, tend to lag. The next chart is a stylised version of the investment cycle – the thick grey line is the economic cycle.
Read MoreRentvesting: Why, When, Where & How
Investing whilst you rent is actually a simple explanation of this neologism, a trendy blend of words to describe a modern day act. Usually first home buyers find themselves priced out of the market they actually want to buy/live in, rather than giving up.
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