High interest rates benefit investors
What happens if rates go up? In today’s low-interest-rate environment one of the common questions property investors ask is, “What happens if I buy now and interest rates skyrocket, like back in the 1980’s?”
An understandable concern and today’s historically low interest rates can’t be sustained forever because at some point the economy will begin [...]
First homebuyers improve rental vacancy rates
Melbourne’s outer suburb vacancy rates have improved from 0.7 per cent to 1.8 per cent in the past six months, according to the Real Estate Institute of Victoria’s April vacancy rates.
The vacancy rate across Melbourne is reasonably steady having been between one and 1.4 per cent for 12 months. However it‘s significant that there’s a [...]