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What’s The Best Percentage of Renters For Capital Growth?

06.28.2021 - By Ryan McLeanPlay

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Some experts claim there is an ideal percentage of renters in a suburb vs owner occupiers.

But what does the data actually say and what is the best % of renters in the suburb we are investing in?

Select Residential Property

DSR Data

Read this article: https://selectresidentialproperty.com.au/busting/whats-the-ideal-tenant-to-owner-mix/

0:00 - Introduction1:00 - Why people speculate that this is important3:25 - What does the data say (2 years)5:30 - 7 years of data5:50 - 12 years of data6:33 - Is this something to consider for suburb growth?9:00 - Why might this happen?11:10 - How to find % of renters in an area

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Transcription

Ryan 0:00Some experts claim that there is an ideal percentage of renter's in a suburb versus owner occupiers where you want to invest in suburbs that have just the right amount of renters and just the right amount of owner occupiers. And not one way or another, that it's going to give you, you know, the best chance of renting your property and the best chance of selling your property. But what does the data actually say about what is the best percentage of renters? Do we want a high percentage of renters? So there's lots of people in the area to rent out property? Do we want a low percentage and mostly owner occupiers, which means there might not be as rental properties in the market? Is that going to be hard to then rent out the property? How does all this affect us? So today, I've got with me, Jeremy Shepherd from select residential property to talk through the data and to say, Okay, what does the data say about percentage of renters versus the growth that an area is likely to help? So thanks for coming on today, Jeremy,

Jeremy 0:56thanks for having me on your show. Right.

Ryan 0:59Okay, so what does the data tell us about this Goldilocks zone of just you know, the right amount of renters? I think, if I've ever heard it, which I don't know if I have, but it would be like around that kind of 20 to 30 35%. Mark, and then people say, you know, anything that's too high renters is probably not good.

Jeremy 1:20Yeah. Well, there's there's an argument where you say are too high renters means? There aren't enough owner occupiers taking better care of their property. There's too many other landlords you competing with over the over the other, the tenants available. And then the opposite is some people are arguing. Well, if there are no tenants there, how do we know that that anyone wants to rent there. But that's really just a case of, there's no supply of rental property, I would much prefer to buy in a location where, where there are no other landlords I'm competing with. But anyway, that's all very good data, we

Ryan 1:56heard from at least one expert in the field that has said you want to target suburbs with this range of renters. And you don't want to look in suburbs that have really low percentage of renter's because it can be hard to rent out your property. And I remember looking at that thinking, I don't know about that video that you and I have done on population growth versus capital growth. And the fact that, you know, population growth just kind of indicates the supply that already is existing and has been built over time, because people are waiting in the streets in order to move into a suburb or anything like that. If there's no houses there for them to move into. So when I think about rental demand in a market,...

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