Lessons from America’s long history of property booms The Economist | April 6, 2013 http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21575737-lessons-americas-long-history-property-booms-betting-house ROBERT MORRIS would have enjoyed the recent American housing boom. A signatory of the Declaration of Independence, he profited handsomely in…
Washington Post | 4 April 2013 http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/obama-administration-pushes-banks-to-make-home-loans-to-people-with-weaker-credit/2013/04/02/a8b4370c-9aef-11e2-a941-a19bce7af755_story.html Before the crisis, about 40 percent of home buyers were first-time purchasers. That’s down to 30 percent, according to the National Association of Realtors. From 2007 through 2012, new-home purchases…
Washington Post | 4 April 2013 http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/obama-administration-pushes-banks-to-make-home-loans-to-people-with-weaker-credit/2013/04/02/a8b4370c-9aef-11e2-a941-a19bce7af755_story.html Before the crisis, about 40 percent of home buyers were first-time purchasers. That’s down to 30 percent, according to the National Association of Realtors. From 2007 through 2012,…
John McGrath | SwitzerBroker | 3 April 2013 http://www.switzerbroker.com.au/the-experts/john-mcgrath/cheaper-to-buy-first-home-today-without-7000-grant/ It’s such a shame to see first home buying slump to such low levels in NSW and Queensland since the scrapping of the $7000 grants for…
This article is an extract from business coach, Robert Knapp. http://www.mentum.com.au/index.html The most important action in growing your business is to develop new leads, get your name in front of potential customers. Create and market…
Christian Edwards | Shaghai Daily | March 24, 2013 http://www.shanghaidaily.com/article/article_xinhua.asp?id=132842 SYDNEY, March 24 (Xinhua) — After almost a decade of relentless foreign investment, the bang of Australia’s mining boom may have finally popped – and…
Susan Zimmerman | Mindful Asset Programs http://www.globalbankingandfinance.com/Finance/Money-Motivations-–-Alien-to-Clients-but-Known-to-You.html Have you noticed that clients’ Emotions and Thoughts (ET) about money often seem like aliens from another planet? Most of them lie outside of their conscious awareness. Yet…
Jessica Irvine | Business Spectator | March 15, 2013 http://www.businessspectator.com.au/article/2013/3/15/property/earth-moves-under-australias-housing-recovery#ixzz2PihogAJu It’s a housing recovery Glenn, but not as we know it. Australians are changing the way they live and the property industry must adapt to survive. In…
David Llewellyn-Smith | Sydney Morning Herald | March 8, 2013 http://www.smh.com.au/business/is-australian-property-worth-the-risk-20130308-2fpgd.html Analysis This morning, Residex’s John Edwards sees the same momentum building in the property market that we are all seeing in the past few…
Jennifer Blake | The Daily Telegraph | February 27, 2013 http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/realestate/investing/apartment-living-on-the-rise/story-fndctfxy-1226586521994 Once the territory of first-home buyers and investors, more and more Australians are choosing apartments for the easy lifestyle on offer. “It’s becoming a…
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