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Try getting the Opposition interested in this topic! They will plunder investors (and indirectly "poor" tentants) just as hard when it it their turn. And no one will have the guts to levy land tax on everyone at a realistic rate so errors in valuation become less important and will be...

Arbitrary valuations It's not the only averaging that the problem, it is the arbitrary nature of valuations themselves. I have a 158m2 block with no views which has consistently valued at 50% above the median for the relevant of local government area. At the last valuation, this discrepancy...

I'd found some of those sites but there were some new ones too. Thanks. Sadly http://tinyurl.com/6fzrcp does not make one much more optimistic about the market and that article was published on 12/11 and I doubt if things have improved since than even with the interest rate cut. B + B has...

Limitations of mega sites The problem is that in normal times, properties like this are sold not leased. But since times are not normal, a different approach is indicated. Searching the mega sites (even when you know what you are looking for is there) does not tend to disclose a market for...

Defence Housing: sensible criteria? My point was that in the Sydney rental market which is VERY tight, Defence, in its wisdom, is excluding from its pool properties without air conditioning while not including houses like the one I live in which is double brick, high ceilings and (being older)...

Tanking: real or imagined I'm talking about the market near Sydney where the property is bigger than your traditional weekender while hobby farm in size. The weekender market (being discretionary) is certainly in trouble with many properties on the market for a long time.

Bird's eye view with Mountain Lagoon and Wollemi National Park in the distance

In NSW, the Department of Housing seems to be undergoing a new look at its purpose in the light of changing demgraphics http://tinyurl.com/5em5dc. A terror of borrowing must surely mean greater reliance on the private sector to provide accommodation. Does anyone have any experience in...

Reading an old BRW I was reading a September BRW the other day. The articles was about the decline in fortunes of Jamie Packer but in other respects, it was pretty much business as usual (Lehman's had only just gone). That was then, this is now. In Sydney last week my sister and two nephews...

Going or coming Rumpled Elf, But you were coming, I'm going... hence the interest in leasing in a (somewhat) tighter rental market on the outskirts of Sydney.

Air conditioning? If you are ever thinking of letting to Defence Homes, apparently they won't even consider you (in Sydney) unless http://www.dha.gov.au/for-investors/regions/sydney.html My own house wouldn't even qualify. Does this make me disadvantaged?

The hobby farm/second home market has tanked just as, after 50 years ownership, the family decides to sell. So it makes sense to defer that idea pending the return of better times. Meanwhile troubled economic times are motivating some to alight the career rate race and do the tree change...