Hotspotting

Ballarat features in our latest National Top 5 Cheapies with Prospects report (Regional Edition) and is also one of our National Top 10 Locations in the new edition of The Price Predictor Index.

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Some Australians have been spooked by negative headlines recently, predicting significant falls in property prices. Over the past 15 years or so, doomsday forecasts have been common - and they've all been spectacularly wrong.

Hotspotting

The quarterly Price Predictor Index is our most important report, in which we scrutinise one of the key parts of the property price equation – demand, by examining the number of sales occurring in every suburb and town in Australia. We look for patterns of demand – rising or falling or whether there’s a pattern of consistent and steady demand, quarter by quarter, over time. The basic premise of this methodology is that prices respond to demand patterns – if demand is rising over time, prices will ri

Mainstream media abounds with inaccuracies, wobbly analysis and dodgy data. Terry Ryder sets the record straight in this new weekly series.

Hotspotting

Regional NSW is one of the nation's strongest markets right now and Queanbeyan just outside Canberra is emerging as the No.1 rising precinct.

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The "Cheapies with Prospects" locations have become the most important locations in Australian real estate.

Affordability is the market's key issue, placing increasing focus on the cheaper areas of our cities and strong regional centres with genuine potential for capital growth.

Our Top 5 Cheapies reports explain why these areas are likely to attract the market's attention and why the nominated areas are worthy of investors' consideration. 

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Regional NSW is now one of the most compelling growth markets in Australia. There are locations right across the state with growing sales activity and many places are delivering double-digit annual price growth. While there are now few rising markets in Sydney, there are growth locations spread across NSW. These include Queanbeyan, Newcastle, Lake Macquarie, the Hunter Region, Albury, Armidale, Bathurst, Dubbo, Gunnedah, Lismore, Orange, Tamworth and Wagga Wagga.

Forrestfield and its neighbours are starting to show price growth as the Perth market enters a recovery phase.

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Regional Victoria is now the strongest market in Australian real estate. Even as the Melbourne boom subsides, the state’s regional markets are rising strongly and delivering the strongest price
growth to be found anywhere in the nation.

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There’s a yawning gap between what’s really going on in real estate markets – on the one hand - and the portrayal of markets by mainstream media – on the other.

The headlines tell us that what they term “Australian property prices” are falling and that markets everywhere are crashing, but the truth is starkly different. There are many positive, forward-looking events happening in residential real estate at the moment, which mainstream media is largely ignoring.