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Forum: Australia
Jan 10th 2015, 1:17 am
Replies: 59
Views: 3,996
Posted By the troubadour

Re: 2015 Financial Survey Predictions For OZ

It has been reported Chinese buying has led to an increase of pricing. Many prime locations are out bid by Chinese buyers by bidding way over the reserve price.

A tax on empty properties and flats...
Forum: Australia
Jan 10th 2015, 1:09 am
Replies: 59
Views: 3,996
Posted By the troubadour

Re: 2015 Financial Survey Predictions For OZ

The lack of policing the regulations in the purchase of established property is something that has been poorly tackled or acted upon. Thank heavens for that Liberal MP for raising the matter in...
Forum: Australia
Jan 4th 2015, 3:18 am
Replies: 59
Views: 3,996
Posted By the troubadour

Re: 2015 Financial Survey Predictions For OZ

2014 may well have been the last of the good years. Plummeting resource prices and a growing realisation that all of the extra revenue from the boom has already been spent.

Ross Garnaut's...
Forum: Australia
Jan 4th 2015, 3:10 am
Replies: 59
Views: 3,996
Posted By the troubadour

Re: 2015 Financial Survey Predictions For OZ

If you consider the continued over valued Sydney and Melbourne markets and depreciating Australian dollar it is just as likely, even more so to be even more attractive to certain overseas buyers.
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Forum: Australia
Jan 2nd 2015, 7:59 am
Replies: 59
Views: 3,996
Posted By the troubadour

Re: 2015 Financial Survey Predictions For OZ

Being a long time buyer and seller of shares on the international market I have certainly made far more money than through the employment route on a number of years. Have had a few prefer to forget...
Forum: Australia
Jan 2nd 2015, 7:43 am
Replies: 59
Views: 3,996
Posted By the troubadour

Re: 2015 Financial Survey Predictions For OZ

Not bollocks by a long shot. Housing has never been so unaffordable. Surely you can find links telling you as much? The market at least in Sydney and Melbourne is largely speculators. Perth is just...
Forum: Australia
Dec 27th 2014, 8:07 am
Replies: 59
Views: 3,996
Posted By the troubadour

Re: 2015 Financial Survey Predictions For OZ

One way of eliminating competition. The small players will largely drop by the wayside. Lower dollar will bring in less dollars in value as well.

Well construction is supposed to compensate in...
Forum: Australia
Dec 24th 2014, 4:06 am
Replies: 59
Views: 3,996
Posted By the troubadour

Re: 2015 Financial Survey Predictions For OZ

It probably does depend on the housing market though. I am increasingly of the opinion that Glenn is somewhat out of his depth. Lower interest rates will feed the housing bubble and attract more off...
Forum: Australia
Dec 23rd 2014, 7:01 am
Replies: 59
Views: 3,996
Posted By the troubadour

Re: 2015 Financial Survey Predictions For OZ

The Australian Aged Pension remains last time I checked still the main source of retirement funding for Australians.

Super payments are nowhere near high enough for most although do certainly...
Forum: Australia
Dec 20th 2014, 6:44 am
Replies: 59
Views: 3,996
Posted By the troubadour

Re: 2015 Financial Survey Predictions For OZ

Hitting resource dependant currencies as to be expected with falls in commodity prices. Should have purchased US $ when they were $104 to the Aussie. It was clear it would be short lived. Still the...
Forum: Australia
Dec 20th 2014, 6:40 am
Replies: 59
Views: 3,996
Posted By the troubadour

Re: 2015 Financial Survey Predictions For OZ

Are you telling me you bought a house all those years ago costing 70% of your gross wages? So you lived on baked beans day in out and cycled to work? Not a way most of us would want to go Geordie.
...
Forum: Australia
Dec 18th 2014, 5:49 am
Replies: 59
Views: 3,996
Posted By the troubadour

Re: 2015 Financial Survey Predictions For OZ

Dollar continuing its decline on the back of further big falls of the Russian Rouble. Both being commodity nations.

It seems that a 17% rise in interest rates has failed to stem the decline of...
Forum: Australia
Dec 18th 2014, 5:41 am
Replies: 59
Views: 3,996
Posted By the troubadour

Re: 2015 Financial Survey Predictions For OZ

I have met Germans in Australia also a little like that. One case in question they were back in three years. Another remained as daughter preferred the lack of intensity in education in OZ. In...
Forum: Australia
Dec 18th 2014, 4:23 am
Replies: 59
Views: 3,996
Posted By the troubadour

Re: 2015 Financial Survey Predictions For OZ

Germany has had an immigration of sorts of medical professionals for a decade. Many to UK funny enough. Mass migration though I think not. Life is pretty bloody good for those in work. I do know...
Forum: Australia
Dec 18th 2014, 4:04 am
Replies: 59
Views: 3,996
Posted By the troubadour

Re: 2015 Financial Survey Predictions For OZ

As I said no problem opting out. Just that housing holds far more importance being the mainstay of the present day economy. May as well not discuss Australia's economic future under the...
Forum: Australia
Dec 18th 2014, 2:09 am
Replies: 59
Views: 3,996
Posted By the troubadour

Re: 2015 Financial Survey Predictions For OZ

When the going gets tough. Barely worth a reply in the circumstances then was it? But yep party on.
Forum: Australia
Dec 18th 2014, 2:06 am
Replies: 59
Views: 3,996
Posted By the troubadour

Re: 2015 Financial Survey Predictions For OZ

It seems to me vested interests are what is keeping the gravy train afloat at the moment. Be that the present benefiting of older, with higher income assets super concessions costing big bucks or the...
Forum: Australia
Dec 18th 2014, 1:42 am
Replies: 59
Views: 3,996
Posted By the troubadour

Re: 2015 Financial Survey Predictions For OZ

Your decision not to get involved of course but wrong to say pointless. The Australian economy is largely reliant on house price rises as a means of sustaining growth. Hence as the glue that is...
Forum: Australia
Dec 18th 2014, 12:55 am
Replies: 59
Views: 3,996
Posted By the troubadour

Re: 2015 Financial Survey Predictions For OZ

I forgot to mention. 40 Billion dollars super tax concessions cost yearly.

Unevenly distributed and unlikely to be able to continue too far into the future.

Although what government will take...
Forum: Australia
Dec 18th 2014, 12:50 am
Replies: 59
Views: 3,996
Posted By the troubadour

Re: 2015 Financial Survey Predictions For OZ

I understand the reason people invest in housing with the hope of enacting a comfortable retirement in older age but even there considerations are needed to see the true potential.

The inability...
Forum: Australia
Dec 18th 2014, 12:37 am
Replies: 59
Views: 3,996
Posted By the troubadour

Re: 2015 Financial Survey Predictions For OZ

I'd sooner have the German certainty of a pension of considerable worth than what they pay out here as a pension which is really a more an income support or dole level of payment.

The future of...
Forum: Australia
Dec 17th 2014, 11:48 pm
Replies: 59
Views: 3,996
Posted By the troubadour

Re: 2015 Financial Survey Predictions For OZ

Nope read below. Different times and different market. We were not in bubble territory in 89.

You may recall the late 80's house price fall/crash in London. I do. It couldn't happen there they...
Forum: Australia
Dec 17th 2014, 11:42 pm
Replies: 59
Views: 3,996
Posted By the troubadour

Re: 2015 Financial Survey Predictions For OZ

The difference being the ratio of affordability was totally different. House prices were thus far cheaper and the market was not dictated by speculators both home grown and foreign.
Forum: Australia
Dec 17th 2014, 11:29 pm
Replies: 59
Views: 3,996
Posted By the troubadour

Re: 2015 Financial Survey Predictions For OZ

It would require a complete change of mindset for Australia to come anywhere close to the German reality.

For starters Germany has rent protection laws which would hardly sit well on the shoulders...
Forum: Australia
Dec 17th 2014, 11:18 pm
Replies: 59
Views: 3,996
Posted By the troubadour

Re: 2015 Financial Survey Predictions For OZ

Short term thinking I'm afraid. Lowering interest rates will see an exculpation of house prices which will be totally unsustainable and facilitate an all mighty bubble burst. Prices are already way...
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