Thursday, March 18, 2021

Melbourne property market forecast to grow strongly in 2021

Melbourne property market forecast to grow strongly in 2021

Wondering what will happen to the Melbourne property market this year?

Are you wondering what will happen to the Melbourne property market this year?

Well… based on how Melbourne real estate has been performing so far it’s likely that will see double-digit capital growth for the general property market, with most segments exhibiting strong price appreciation other than the inner city and high-rise apartment market.

While Melbourne housing values suffered because of its extended lockdown which severely impacted market activity in 2020, since late October the Melbourne property market has rebounded strongly.

But there is still plenty of growth left, as Melbourne property values have only just reached their pre-pandemic levels and are about to create new peaks, meaning they will only now reach the previous 2017 peak levels.

Currently house price growth is stronger than unit growth, and while most sectors of the market have been enjoying strong demand, the more expensive properties are now out performing Melbourne’s less expensive properties.

 

Prices Through Pandemic House Price Infaltion

 

Looking back the Melbourne property market has been one of the strongest and most consistent performers over the last four decades.

Over the last 40 years:

  • The median house price in Melbourne has increased by 7.9% per annumMelbourne
  • The median unit/apartment price in Melbourne has increased by 7.73%per annum

Obviously this wasn’t the same each and every year, as the Melbourne property market worked its way through the typical property cycles.

Over the last few decades Melbourne won the mantle of the world’s “most liveable city” more times than any other city in the world.

Needless to say, the Covid related lockdowns endured by Melbourne led to some challenging times, but now both buyers and sellers are back, consumer confidence has picked up strongly and property transaction numbers have increased and house, auction clearance rates are strong and prices are rising, however Melbourne’s inner city apartment market still looks in bad shape.

Auction clearance rates in Melbourne have been very high – actually a boom time levels.

Melbourne Autction Trends

While there is a shortage of quality housing in popular areas across Melbourne, the lower-than-expected population growth has led to an oversupply of housing in some outer suburban new estates.

A prime example of this is Melbourne’s western suburbs where and additional 18,800 houses are expected to be built over the next 24 months.Buyers Agent

Villa units, townhouses and family suitable apartments will be seen as affordable alternatives to houses in the highly sought after inner eastern and south eastern suburbs of Melbourne.

On the other hand, high-rise apartments in the many Melbourne CBD towers or close to universities are likely to underperform, remain vacant for a long time and keep decreasing in value.

Houses in regional Victoria with easy access to the capital city are also in strong demand and should continue to increase in value.

Interestingly, one by one the economic forecasters are predicting a strong year for Melbourne property in 2021.

Here’s a chart from Westpac of Melbourne dwelling price trends over the last decade …

Melbourne Property

Source: Westpac- March 2021

If you’re looking for some key pointers to the future of Melbourne property consider these:

  • For years the Victorian economy has been Australia’s strongest State economy creating more (and typically higher paying) jobs than other states and once we get across the proverbial bridge the government has built for COVID-19, Victoria’s economy will surge again.
    Now that life in Melbourne is getting back to normal jobs are being created, people are feeling confident and they’re spending up big helping boost Victoria’s economy again.

Victorian spending

  • First home buyers are back in the market buoyed by the HomeBuilder grant, historically low interest rates and the newly announced stamp duty concessions
  • The 2020 budget announced that the Victorian Government will waive 50 per cent of stamp duty on newly-built and off-the-plan homes valued below $1 million until June 30th 2021. At the same time purchasers of existing homes will receive a 25 percent discount (in addition to existing stamp duty concession for first home buyers). Corelogic report that 83 percent of Victorian homes sold for less than $1 million over the past twelve months.
  • Melbourne’s population was growing at around 120,000 people per annum. That’s like adding a Darwin or a Ballarat each year to Melbourne’s population. Sure this will slow down for a while due to the closing of our borders caused by Coronavirus, but will resume in due course.
  • International and interstate migration will return once we get through these challenging times.
  • There has always been strong foreign interest in Melbourne from tourists, migrants, investors and developers and in time this will return.

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But remember… Melbourne is not one property market…

There are multiple markets in this diverse sprawling city.

It is divided by geography price points and type of property into many submarkets – this means you can’t just buy any property and count on the general Melbourne property market to do the heavy lifting for you over the next few years, so careful property selection will be critical. 

So to help you better understand what’s going on in Australia’s second largest property market are 29 things you should know if you’re considering investing in Melbourne property:

1. Melbourne Property Market Prices

Over the last 4 decades, Melbourne home values have risen at the fastest pace of all capital cities.

However recently Melbourne house prices and market activity was adversely affected by its two lockdowns in 2020.

But now Melbourne property is on the move again

 

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The following chart from Real Estate.com.au shows how buyers are actively back into the Melbourne property market.

Vic Sales Search

At Metropole we’re finding that on the ground sentiment has changed completely with strategic investors and homebuyers already starting to feel a little FOMO (fear of missing out).

However, while house prices have been resilient, Melbourne rental rates are experiencing weaker conditions due to a higher supply of rental properties, and less demand.

Rents Vic

At the same time is more buyers being active in the market, there is currently a shortage of good quality stock on the market.

Melbourne Property


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2. Long Term Melbourne Property Market Trends

Historically, the city’s property market has gone from strength to strength.

In 1966, the median house price in Melbourne was just $9,400.

Values have doubled more than six times since then, with the median crashing through the $100,000 barrier in 1988, and pushing through the half-million-dollar mark in 2010.

Today one in three Melbourne suburbs have a median house price of at least $1 million, with 90 percent of suburbs within 10km of the CBD have a million-dollar median house price and almost 50 percent of suburbs in the middle ring also in the million-dollar club.

And changing demographics is playing a big role in driving shifting market trends.

The big house on a big block is no longer a sure-fire strategy for success, as single-person homes and households without children are increasingly favouring living in medium density inner city and waterfront apartment properties.

Meanwhile, families are trending towards locations that offer effective transport infrastructure, with access to amenities and quality education.

Upgrades to major highways and new rail links may close the gap between suburbs that were previously closed off by poor infrastructure.

Currently the number of property sales in Melbourne is growing week by week and asking prices are holding up well:-

Meb Weekly Asking Prices

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3. Melbourne’s Rental Market

Traditionally in Melbourne, vacancy rates have been tight; hovering well below the level of 2.5% vacancies, which traditionally represents a balanced rental market.

At Metropole Property Management our vacancy rate is less than half this rate, in part because our clients have chosen investment-grade properties, but we’d like to think it also has a bit to do with our proactive property management policies.

While over the long term rentals have grown in line with property values, more recently asking rents have fallen, in part due to the influx of rental properties that were previously let on short-term leases such as AirBnB and student accommodation.

Melb Weekly Rent

Meb Residential Vacancy Rates

The lower yield investors have been achieving is a reflection of higher capital growth and the value of Melbourne properties.

As a consequence, overall yields have declined over the past few years as can be seen from the following chart from SQM Research.

Melb Gross Rental Yields

Melbourne’s capital Growth

Melbourne now has 119 suburbs with a median of $1million or more –  up from 98 a year ago, according to realestate.com.au data.

The Melbourne real estate market has seen the biggest rise in suburbs joining the million-dollar club in Australia over the last year

“At this stage, it’s too early to tell what impact Melbourne’s second lockdown will have on the market,” according to Nerida Conisbee realestate.com.au’s chief economist.

3 suburbs – Aspendale, Niddrie and Spotswood – fell off the $million list.

New Melbourne million dollar suburbs

 

Melbourne House Price Growth

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What’s so special about Melbourne?

4. Melbourne’s demographics

As Australia’s second-largest city, Melbourne is home to around 4.82 million people which accounts for 19.05% of the national population.

In fact, Melbourne has been ranked the world’s most liveable city for 7 years in a row, up until 2018 when it was just pipped to the post by Vienna, Austria

Melbourne is Victoria’s business, administrative, cultural and recreational hub of the state.urban

On an average day around 854, 000 people use the city, and each year Melbourne hosts over a million international visitors.

The culturally diverse and creative city is home to residents from an estimated 180 countries, who speak over 233 languages and dialects and follow more than 100 religious faiths.

Of the 130,000-odd thousand people who live in Melbourne’s inner city (the CBD), more than half are aged between 15 and 34, and they are generally living in single-person households or as couples without children.

According to Census data, this is strongly influenced by the high number of higher education students (both domestic and international) that reside in the city.

Immigration from China and India accounted for 32% of overall growth in population numbers, making Mandarin the second most commonly spoken language in the city.

5. Melbourne’s Layout

A well-planned city that is amply serviced by a range of public transport options, Melbourne is laid out under the Hoddle Grid’, so named after its designer Robert Hoddle, which runs roughly parallel to the Yarra River.

As with most large cities, greater Melbourne is divided into ‘east’ and ‘west’ neighbourhoods; those in the east are more established and generally considered more affluent, while those in the west are more affordable, newer suburbs with less established reputations.

6. Melbourne’s Infrastructure

Melbourne residents enjoy the use of some of Australia’s most advanced and well-connected systems of road, rail and tram infrastructure, which give locals plentiful options when deciding how to get around the city and its surrounding suburbs.

Melbourne’s Infrastructure

The city received a perfect score of 100 for its world-class infrastructure in the 2013 EIU Liveability Report, where ongoing investment in Melbourne’s infrastructure was highlighted as being one of the factors that keep Melbourne at the top of the index.

And the State government is spending a lot on infrastructure recognising that good infrastructure is not an end in itself, but an enabler of better social, economic and environmental outcomes.

Meanwhile, Melbourne Airport handles more than 30 million passengers annually along with 350,000 tonnes of air freight, making it Australia’s largest air freight hub.

The city is also home to a number of world-renowned universities.

However as Melbourne suburbs sprawl further and further out from the CBD, the difference in the level of amenities between the inner suburbs and the poorly serviced outer suburbs is becoming more glaring, causing people to pay a premium to leave closer to the CBD and the better serviced inner suburbs.

7. Melbourne’s Economy

Melbourne market update June 2017

As a cosmopolitan, creative city that is served by a number of industries, Melbourne residents enjoy employment in diverse industries, from tourism, hospitality, and entertainment to commerce, industry, and trade.

Almost half the jobs created in Australia over the last decade have been created in Melbourne and Sydney.

Over the last 10 years, more than 500,000 new jobs were created in Melbourne as Victoria is transitioning from a manufacturing state to one driven by service industries, which is creating strong job growth and resultant overseas and interstate migration.

At the same time, the momentum of the Melbourne property market is creating a “wealth effect” for many of its residents have higher-paying jobs at a time that they are feeling wealthier as the value of their homes keep increasing.

As you can see from the chart below, Melbourne’s economy slumped in 2020 due to multiple coronavirus lockdowns, however it’s now growing strongly again in 2021

Victorian economy

 

 

 

8. Melbourne’s growth

Melbourne Population trends

Victoria remains the nation’s population growth powerhouse but growth has started to slow a little.

Currently Victoria represents around 26 percent of Australia’s population and 3 out of 4 Victorians live in Melbourne making it Australia’s least decentralised state.

Melbourne’s population now stands at over 5 million people and Melbourne is still the fastest-growing cities in the country, growing at around 2.4% per annum.

The estimated population increased by 2.2% over the 2018 calendar year taking it to 6,526,413 persons with an increase of 139,430 persons over the past year.

The 139,430 person population increase consisted of natural increase of 40,256 persons, net overseas migration of 85,965 persons and net interstate migration of 13,209 persons.

Although the population continues to increase rapidly, both net overseas and net interstate migration are lower than they were a year ago and natural increase is higher than a year ago but lower than the previous quarter.

Of course there will be little immigration to Melbourne over the next year or so, putting a temporary halt to its substantial population growth.

However there is still an element of natural population growth (more births and deaths) and it is likely that population growth will surge once our borders are opened again, the popularity of Melbourne together with the fact it is the economic hub of Australia,

Components of annual population growth, VIC.PNG

 

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Like most housing markets in Australia, dwelling markets across Victoria now face new challenges in the wake of Coronavirus.

The chart below shows Melbourne’s population increase attributable to net overseas migration in the year to June 2019, alongside the four latest four quarter average of the workforce employed in accomodation and food services and arts and recreation services.

Clearly these areas of employment are likely to suffer more as we are cocooned by coronavirus.

Melbourne demographics

The graphs above highlights that Victoria’s change in population is trending lower due to quite large declines in natural increase and net interstate migration and a more moderate fall in net overseas migration.

However Victoria still records the largest raw number increase in population of all states and territories in Australia

As you can see from the graph below, more than three quarters of net overseas migration has been into NSW and Victoria, most of this coming from China and India.

Most of these permanent migrants are coming for jobs and are of household formation age.

Many initially rent the homes, but many want to eventually buy a home as part of their “status” of being an Australian.

A large chunk of this population growth is happening in Melbourne’s outer west, where the number of residents has increased by a figure equal to the population of Hobart over the last decade.

In fact, seven of the country’s top 10 growth areas were outer suburbs of Greater Melbourne, with international migration a big driving force behind Melbourne’s population growth.

The ripple effect of house price growth caused significant house price growth in Melbourne’s outer suburbs over the last few years.

Similarly, some regional centers including Geelong have performed well, but moving forward it is likely that the more affluent middle rings suburbs which are going through gentrification are likely to exhibit the best property price growth.

Melbourne’s growth

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By the way…

Just because there is significant population growth in these areas doesn’t mean there is strong capital growth of property values in these areas.

In fact, there isn’t!

That’s why I would avoid investing in these new outer suburbs as they lack the demographic and economic drivers to push up property values as opposed to the inner and middle-ring suburbs where there is more “old money.”

Melbourne is set to overtake Sydney and become Australia’s largest city by the 2030s according to demographer Bernard Salt.

And that’s not really that far away, is it?

If these forecasts pan out, and they are likely to be correct, they will underpin the strength of the Melbourne property market and deliver surety to investors who own property in the right locations.

Why is Melbourne attracting more growth than Sydney? Melbourne-vs-Sydney

Melbourne offers what Sydney cannot or will not offer: access to affordable housing on the urban fringe.

Melbourne planned for growth from the Kennett years resulting in the formation of a plan for five million residents in 2030 and announced in 2002.

Either way, Sydney’s lead is now closer to 350,000 but is narrowing at a rate of 20,000 a year.

If present rates were to continue Melbourne would replace Sydney as Australia’s largest city at some point in the 2030s.

9. Melbourne’s culture

The city of Melbourne is nothing if not multicultural, with dozens of different cultures and nationalities 140 to be exact living side-by-side.

The city’s Multicultural Hub was launched as a friendly, supportive environment for Melburnians of all cultures to get together and work, share and learn, while the city’s diverse and awarded restaurant scene is highly influenced by immigrants from diverse backgrounds including Chinese, Italian, Greek and Lebanese.

What types of properties perform well in Melbourne?

10. Melbourne Houses

Decades ago, the Australian property market was dominated by demand for freestanding houses. urban-sprawl

The appetite for ‘the Australian dream’, complete with a comfortable home on a big block with a picket fence and a pet dog, was insatiable, and home buyers, as well as investors, flocked to houses as a preferred investment type.

Today, the concept that land goes up in value is still well recognised, but not all land is created equal.

What’s more, changing demographics and evolving family situations have shifted dynamics to the point where more Melbournians are trading backyards for courtyards and balconies meaning apartments, units and townhouses can be just as highly sought as freestanding homes.

With median house values in Melbourne virtually doubling in the last decade, many people can’t afford freestanding homes, so they smartly start their home buying or investment journey with apartments instead.

11. Melbourne Town Houses

The term townhouse originally referred in British usage to the city residence of a member of the nobility, as opposed to their country estate.

Today the term refers to medium density (often multi-story) dwellings that maybe, but not necessarily, terraced (row housing) or semi-detached.

In fact, the 2016 Census showed an 11% increase in the number of people living in townhouses – a popular style of Melbourne accommodation where people live in modern accomodation on compact blocks of land close to amenities in the middle ring suburbs.

Yes, Melburnians are trading their backyards for courtyards and balconies.

12. Melbourne UnitsMelbourne Units

Units (sometimes called villa units) is the name given to single-story, older-style dwellings, mainly built in the 1960s and 70s.

Today, developers rarely build in this style because it’s not as profitable as building ‘up’.

This style of property makes an attractive investment, as they are increasingly popular with small families and young tenants, who enjoy the privacy with no one above or below and the small yard.

13. Melbourne Flats / Apartments

If you invest in a flat you are generally buying an apartment that has other dwellings attached to it; these could be above or below, next door, or a combination of the above.

They are the preferred style of accommodation for young Melbournians and are generally easy to the tenant and therefore, if well located, make great investments.

As the entry costs are lower, they are also the first type of accommodation bought by many first home buyers

RiskWise reports that certain apartment locations should be avoided because of a risk of oversupply.  Examples include:

  • Melbourne West with 4,267 units in the pipeline (8.4 per cent increase to the current stock),
  • Melbourne – Inner East with 4,523 units in the pipeline (7.2 per cent increase to the current stock) and
  • Melbourne – Inner with 11,579 units in the pipeline (4.7 per cent increase to the current stock).

While buyer sentiment has improved substantially, Riskwise state that the realisation of risks associated with high supply areas including price movements, constructions defects, and now high vacancy rates, make these Properties, that are generally bought by investors, a higher risk endeavour.

 

14. Commercial, Retail and Industrial properties Commercial-Property

Commercial properties, (retail shops, factories, warehouses, and office spaces) are in a very different league residential property and out of the domain of the every-day investor.

Whilst there are many benefits of investing in commercial properties, they are more suitable for the sophisticated and experienced investor, particularly as they are more yield-driven than capital growth-driven.

Consider it this way: for most advanced investors, your job is to build your asset base.

Once your portfolio is big and robust enough, you begin transferring into a cash flow strategy and at this point, a commercial property can be a good investment.

How do Melbourne’s areas compare?

15. Inner City

Melbourne’s inner city core has a population of around 29,450 people, a figure that is expected to double to 59,900 over the next 20 years.

As a result, there is much more property development activity in Melbourne CBD than anywhere else in the larger metropolitan area, with the majority of these developments comprising of high-density high-rise apartment buildings.Inner City

The area of Southbank, just south of Melbourne’s CBD, currently boasts over 9,000 distinct dwellings, the majority of which are family households (45%).

The number of residential properties is set to rise to more than 26,000 over the next 20 years.

Currently, I’m worried by a large number of poorly built inner-city apartments on the market or planned for completion.

Many, in fact, most of these are being bought by overseas investors and as these are likely to become the slums of the future.

Just to make things clear…I would avoid this segment of the Melbourne property market.

16. Bayside and South-Eastern Suburbs

Melbourne’s south-eastern suburbs boast distinct communities, neighbourhood attributes, and differing property growth cycles.

However while intricate, they’re considered by many to be the best Melbourne property investment suburbs.

The inner south-eastern and bayside suburbs of Melbourne make great locations to invest.

17. Eastern Suburbs location street phone

These include some of the most affluent areas of Melbourne – the residents of the eastern suburbs enjoy a median personal income of $1,164 per week, according to ABS figures.

Around 33% of properties are owned outright or mortgaged here, with 20% of housing comprised of townhouses or semi-detached homes, and only 33% of residential properties being high-rise apartments.

This is a dramatic difference from the inner city, where apartments are the dominant dwelling type.

The inner eastern suburbs of Melbourne also boast some great investment locations.

18. Western & Northern Suburbs

While the outskirts of Melbourne’s west and north is home to several of the city’s fastest-growing outer-suburban areas including Truganina, which increased by 18%, Tarneit (16%), Point Cook (12%), Melton South (11%) and Wyndham Vale (10%).

However, these more blue-collar areas have lower average wages growth and therefore lower ability to sustain capital growth.

While these areas are experiencing strong population growth and they have enjoyed strong capital growth over the last few years as the rising tide of the strong Melbourne property market lifted all ships, now that the cycle has reached its mature stage, many of these locations, especially the blue-collar suburbs will struggle.

In general, there are better investment opportunities in Melbourne’s inner eastern and south-eastern suburbs.

19. Melbourne has high standards melbourne city park happy peace victoria garden

Melbourne has been named as the world’s most liveable city by the Economist Intelligence Unit’s liveability survey for 7 years in a row and for very good reason!

Boasting excellent healthcare services, premium education facilities (including world-class universities), a stable and diverse economy, solid investment in infrastructure and a thriving, creative culture, it’s easy to see why Melbourne received an overall score of 97.5 out of 100.

With such a high standard of living and ready access to good quality facilities and amenities, it comes as no surprise that people continue to choose to call Melbourne home.

In addition, with over 120 suburbs with a median house price of over $1million, Melbourne has the second-highest median price in the country (behind Sydney).

20. Avoid Melbourne’s poor-quality apartments

Just because Melbourne has a well-deserved reputation for quality, that doesn’t mean the city is flawless – far from it.

In fact, the Melbourne CBD (Central Business District) is riddled with poor quality apartments, with one report stating that an estimated 55 percent of the city’s tallest apartment buildings are of “poor” quality, with common design flaws.


No one wants to live in a sub-standard apartment, regardless of how affordable it is, and there are only so many people who would find a hotel-sized apartment appropriate for full-time living.

The fact that an estimated 40 percent of apartments in Melbourne are smaller than 50 square meters, according to the Melbourne City Council’s planning department, shows just how big this issue has become – particularly when you consider that the minimum size a single bedroom apartment can be in Sydney, London and Adelaide is 50m2 or above.

Not only are the apartments lacking in breathing room – literally – they’re also flawed in a number of other ways, with kitchens placed in hallways, a lack of ventilation and natural light, and poor storage.

All of these design faults make these types of developments less attractive to potential tenants, which reduces the desirability of these properties.

Investors would be well advised to steer clear of apartments that don’t tick all the boxes.

Shoebox-sized living spaces, alongside common design flaws in the building itself, should raise some serious red flags for buyers.

The problem is many overseas buyers are purchasing these properties which will become the slums of the future.

21. Look for Melbourne’s best properties in the inner and middle-ring suburbs. location map house suburb area find

Studies – and time – have shown that properties close to the city’s CBD (but not in it) and in bayside suburbs close to the water will increase in value more quickly than other properties and suburbs.

The demand for property is higher in these regions, as there is no land available for release, but the areas remain close to employment or desired locations.

Not only are properties closer to the CBD closer have better access to amenities and more employment opportunities, but transport costs are often lower and, as a result, people are willing to pay a premium to live there.

The end result for property investors in Melbourne is that the inner and middle-ring suburbs will (generally) out-perform the averages for suburbs located further from the city.

22. Be mindful of a Melbourne inner-city apartment oversupply

Melbourne’s property market has been typified by strong population growth and to keep up with surging housing demand, there have been a huge number of new developments – mostly in the form of high-rise apartment buildings, in and around the CBD – that have been approved.

While the population growth, Mainly from overseas migrants, was soaking up soaking up much of this new dwelling stock, the CBD is now over-supplied with too many new apartments.

With too many development projects either completed, begun or approved in recent years, the risk for property investors in Melbourne is that there is currently an oversupply of properties in and around Melbourne’s CBD.

And until our international borders are open, and tourists and in particular students return, it is likely that this oversupply will be soaked up meaning there will be no capital growth and sluggish rental growth on your investment – so avoid Melbourne CBD and near CBD properties.

 

23. Make the most of Melbourne properties through negative gearing

While most investors understand the concept of negative gearing, just in case you’re not up to speed, here’s a quick refresher:

Negative gearingA property is negatively geared when the costs of owning it – interest on the loan, bank charges, maintenance, repairs, and depreciation – exceed the income it produces.

Since the costs of producing an income are generally deductible against the taxpayer’s other income, property investors can effectively offset some of the interest expense against their wages.

Why would anyone go into a business deal to make a loss?

Generally, it’s because property investors in Melbourne hope that their income losses will be more than offset by their capital gains when they eventually sell (or refinance) their property.

And in Australia capital gain is not taxed unless you sell your property, and then it is concessionally taxed; again evoking the argument that it favors wealthy landlords.

Of course, negative gearing is more favorable for taxpayers who earn high incomes and just to make things clear…
Negative gearing is not an investment strategy – it’s just the way a property is financed at a particular point in time.

How do you choose an investment property in Melbourne?

We believe that 80% of your property’s performance is related to its location (one that outperforms the averages ) and 20% or so is related to buying the right property in that location.

Here are some of the factors to look for when selecting an investment grade property:-

24. Buy a property for below its intrinsic value

I’m a big believer in buying property for below its intrinsic value – that’s why I avoid new and off the plan properties, which generally attract a premium price tag.

I also look for properties with a high Land to Asset ratio – but remember apartments have an attributable land value underneath them

25. Buy a property in a location that outperforms the averages house property

In other words in an area that has a long, proven history of strong capital growth and one that is likely to continue to outperform the averages, and this is largely because of the demographics in the area and the future economic prospects for the area.

These suburbs tend to be those where a large number of owner occupiers desire to live in the area, because of lifestyle choices of the offer.

I look for suburbs where wages (and therefore disposable income) is increasing above average.

This translates to being an area where locals are able to and prepared to pay a premium price to live there, putting a financial floor under your investment property.

26. Buy a property with a twist

An investment must have something unique, or special, or different or scarce – some ‘X factor’ that makes it stand out from its neighbours – in order to land on my shortlist.

27. Buy a property where you can manufacture capital growth

An ideal investment is one in which you can manufacture capital growth through refurbishment, renovations or redevelopment.

How can I stay on top of current information?

28. Get property news, updates and advice by email

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