Hotspotting Terry Ryder

Attention all savvy property investors! Are you looking for the most affordable investment hotspots in 2023? Then catch our recent webinar hosted by Hotspotting.com.au's Terry Ryder and Tim Graham.
Hotspotting's latest research and analysis on real estate markets has yielded an encouraging outlook for 2023 and beyond, following 18 months of turbulence and declining sales activity in many markets. Learn their top strategies for identifying emerging markets that offer rising sales activity and strong potential for capital growth at affordable prices.

News media is always happy to sensationalise an issue or embellish the facts to make sales but sometimes they go beyond what has always been known in the journalism industry as a beat-up. Sometimes, indeed increasingly often, what we are presented with is an outright lie – with journalists happy to present their customers with misinformation. It’s highly unethical and dishonest – and in legal terms there’s a word for it – it’s called fraud – seeking to make money dishonestly.

I recently attended the annual national conference in Sydney of PIPA, the Property Investment Professionals of Australia. In many ways this is the most important organisation in Australia in terms of finding solutions to one of the nation’s most pressing problems, the rental shortage. PIPA comprises people who deal every day with the people who supply over 90% of the homes that people rent in Australia – private investors. They’re often referred to as mum-and-dad investors, because most of the people who own investment real estate are ordinary households on average incomes who own just one investment property. This very important cohort provides the product which is in short supply and it would make sense for politicians to encourage them in any way possible to solve the shortage crisis. But the opposite is happening. Private investors are being massively discouraged and they’re leaving the real estate market in droves, as the new PIPA survey graphically illustrates. And that, in essence, is why we have the rental shortage crisis.

The person in the image behind me is Australia’s dumbest and most dangerous politician. I know that’s a pretty big statement, because Australia is full of politicians who are none too bright and who have ideas and policies which would be extremely damaging if they everbecame law – particularly on issues relating to the housing industry. But this character is the pick of a very bad bunch.

Now, more than ever, property buyers are seeking affordable options. First-home buyers are finding it harder to get into the market - through the combination of higher prices AND higher interest rates which reduce their borrowing capacity. Investors, too, are chasing more affordable options, because they also face the difficulty of higher interest rates and lower borrowing capacity pushing them into lower price brackets.

The key to success in property investment lies in identifying locations which will outperform the general market over time and pinpointing the right time to take action. Essentially this means forecasting events in markets across the nation. But is this realistically achievable for the average Australian consumer?
 
The truth is that anyone can learn the basic tools for understanding property market dynamics well enough to determine when to get into the market and where to buy for long-term success. Indeed, the average consumer can easily outperform senior economists working for the major banks. Let’s face it, that’s not terribly difficult, given the poor track record of bank economists in forecasting house prices in recent years.
 
Leading buyers’ agent Kate Hill of Adviseable says her decades of experience in Australian real estate have revealed simple principles for pinpointing good places to invest.
 
On Wednesday 13 September, Hill joined Hotspotting founder Terry Ryder to discuss how prospective investors can learn the tools of identifying good locations and predicting likely outcomes with price growth. They exposed real estate’s greatest myths and misconceptions – fallacies which prevent many consumers from achieving success in property investment. Hill and Ryder presented case studies of locations which demonstrated the principles of finding growth markets and taking effective action.