Everybody has their view. The Christmas cycle of companies making changes with their staff has caused some disquiet in some mining towns especially in the Pilbara region, when the market was spooked following the dramatic pullback affecting infrastructure development in October last year when iron ore prices dipped to $86 a tonne.  Since then they have dramatically recovered to $150 a tonne although these high prices are expected to be temporary. But it has left many investors very unsettled.

Our feeling for propert...

According to a report commissioned by Commonwealth Bank, KPMG advise housing is affordable now as it has ever been since 1950 when it required 7 times average yearly income to purchase a home. It now stands at less than 6.9.   This is probably due to a slight decline in house prices in many parts of Australia and the fact that many families have salary income from two partners rather than just one.  

The Reserve Bank of Australia advise information released over the past two months suggests that the Australian economy g...

Well, that’s what I’ve being reading during the past few days.  Do you remember when gold almost touched US$2000 an ounce last year?  The analysts were chanting it was on an nonstop ride to $US5000 an ounce.

Now the focus is on broadcasting the Resources Boom is Ending, not good news for a rental property investor. To my mind Australia is not in a boom, but in a manufacturing transition where a number of our manufacturing industries are in decline, including car manufacturing, touri...