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So it seems that the investors here do not go for really low yields - such as houses on Sydney lower north shore - even though there was good capital growth potential. Probably causes too many restrictions later on - worked well for us however.

That sounds similar to the one I described. What made you buy something with such low returns and how has this worked out ? Have you been able to increase the yield over time ? Has it made enough capital growth to offset the holding costs ?

How long ago was this this - and how has the overall investment gone compared to your other higher yielding properties ? Pretty much all of our purchases have started out as low yielding properties but then have performed very well overall in capital appreciation- probably because they...

In "inner" Sydney at the moment it is hard to get anything like a reasonable yield from a house purchase. Just interested in some low yield purchase stories and how they ended. We have a place on Sydney's north shore that cost us around $720K all up back in 2008. The rent was around $400...