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7% is fine for me but you won't get anywhere near those yields in most suburbs

Hard to tell. Property is already expensive IMO and not only in Sydney. I think it's time for yields to increase before we see another boom. But who knows? IMO the likely scenario is that we could be going up a little bit more and then sideways for a long time.

Yeah I know all this and I'm with you 100%. Money can be made in all markets and not only in Sydney. Yes, it does help to time the market and we should try to time our entry early in each cycle or we could be waiting for a long time....

Sunfish I find it strange that you've posted this because as you know all markets work in cycles. People who bought in those suburbs in 2002 they've essentially bought at the peak of the boom so there was no much capital gains after that. In fact, a price correction was to be expected so...

I agree so how high they go will depend on how deep pockets the buyers have

Lisa I've included the standard interest rates in the 3 periods you've mentioned. In the first period I'm suspecting that property prices grew because of pent up demand and people looked for a safe heaven for their money In the 2nd period you can see that prices were increasing as...