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********************************************** Dear Always_Learning, I guess if I am in your shoes, I will sit down to discuss things with my own wife, as to the causes/sources of her fears and anxieties. Perhaps, she has a lower threshold for risk-taking and you are exceeding her limit...

What will the Reserve Bank do? Peter 147 and Les, Your arguments sound logical and persuasive... But let us hold our breath and wait to see the outcome next week... It interesting to note the outcome, whatever. ..I'm now beginning to learn more about RBA and the Australian property...

L. Bernham, I do not agree with your assessment for Australia. I find it too bleak. Personally, I beleive that there is some room for properties in WA to rise further, though the overall Australian market has peaked/peaked over this year. Invest at your risks and with due...

I am not surprised as there are books in Singapore talking about the impending housing bust in America next year in 2004. Setting aside personal ethics, whether the market is up or down, astute investors will always still find opportunities to invest. I am being told that potential...

Riase Your Expectations, Australia Dear Peter, 1. To me, Australia is a much blessed country today. It is endowed with tremendous natural resources and blessed with a good, able and pragmatic government, that a lot of international monies and talented/middle-class people from around...

Bundy1964, Well said. How do you manage the inherent risks involved in long term property investing so as to acheive "the ability to hold long term"? Thanks. regards, Kenkoh2000

Buy-Hold and Sell at Market Peaks [Posted by L.Bernham) You cant go along for the ride and then think you're immune from a turn around by just not selling the house. If prices are falling in surrounding suburbs.It wont work if the people in one particular suburb all decide to hold, on the...

Buy- Hold and Sell at Market Peaks Dear LB, 1. While I can agree you the mechanics for a sudden change in sentiment, I am however confident that in those suburbs where there is a high owner- occupancy rate like more than 80%, your scenario is unlikely to happen there as these owners are...

Postive Income- Margaret Lomas Dear MC, 1. Theoretically, I can fully agree with Margaret Lomas'ideas. However locating the positive cashflow investment properties is not easy, although I understand that Margaret does maintain some sort of a register on the list of available...

Buy-Hold VS Buy-Hold-Sell at Market Peak Dear LB and his opposing members, As far as I am concerned, it will be helpful for us to re-look what happened immediately to the property market following the general market peak in 1988 and 1994, when the general market corrected downwards, across...

Lender Gets the Shakes Dear Ocean_View, What are you actually saying then? Banks are tightening up on thier loans?.... so signs of housing bubbles and impending Fed tightening policy? What is regulated annd non regulated loans? Anyone In HSBC whoime you can recommend to us to apply...

Cairns- Fast Hotting Up Dear Glenn and fellow members, From the latest Cairns Newswatch Newsletter for August 2003 by HTW Valuers received this morning, reported the following: Rental vacancy rate for houses - 2.4% Units - 3.2%...

Dear Members, I'm sure that the more experienced successful investors could enlighten us more on the "buy-and-hold" investment strategy and how they refine their investment strategy to improve their loan servicing capacities which oftens limits one investing capacity as a result of...

Buying In Another State Dear Ger, Beside those points raised by MMerlin, I think one alos needs to be be awarelof the different stamp duties payable and settlement procedures as well as the different timings/stage of the particular market segment and diffferent suburb housing demand/...

VIEWS ON OTP UNIT INVESTING IN SURFER PARADISE. Dear Sea_Change, 1. I've previously thought that the entire property market in Goldcoast has peaked. But from press cuttings and other research materials, it seems to me that only the land and houses markets have peaked but apparently not...

I am planning to invest in an OTP 2bedrooms+1study 130m2-unit at the "Circle on the Cavill" Project by Sunland Group in Surfer Paradise for A$580,000. Expected completion date between June2006 and Jan 2007. It is said that the units are currently in an "under supplied" situation in Surfer...

Cairns- Fast Hotting Up Dear Sea_Change and Glenn, 1. Before I answer your questions, let me clarify my own position here first. I am from Singapore. I am new to Cairns myself, having first visited and stayed in Cairns for one week in July 2003 for the first time in my entire life...

************************************************** Dear ABCDiamond, 1. I can fully agree with your views. 2. However, I understand that Malaysians have already replaced Singaporeans as the biggest investors group in the Goldcoast property market this year. 3. Given the present...

Re: Re: Bust and Then What???

Dear Jamie and Astroboy, My own thinking is that since the property market operates in cycles, a price correction after each specific property market has peaked, is both neccessary and inevitable. It is in fact a very healthy sign. We cannot wish away the price correction stage as it...