Our buyer’s agent part of the business has been busy in the background purchasing some of the healthiest marginally returning assets across Australia.

– We have saved four recent clients a collective total amount of $174,000 off the original asking purchase prices.
– The average purchase price across the last four purchases was $398,000.
– The average yearly growth was 8.12% across the last four purchases.

– The average rental yield return was 4.61% across the last four purchase.
– 2 of 4 properties were sourced off market.
– One purchase was made specifically in a R3 zoned location to knockdown and build townhouses on in the next 12 months.
– Some of the units seen here have grown 45% in the last 5 years.

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Property experts from Hotspotting.com.au have identified dozens of ‘supercharged’ suburbs in areas which investors should now be turning their attention to.

The website has just released their latest Price Predictor Index, which shows suburbs around Newcastle in New South Wales and Ballarat in Victoria are stand-out investment opportunity.

Terry Ryder, the website’s creator and property expert, said in a recent podcast investors not choosing the regions were missing out.

‘If you’re a property investor not considering the regions, then you’re missing opportunities to buy affordably in areas with strong yields and great potential for growth,’ Mr Ryder said.

‘The common denominator here is this – as the capital city markets in those states wind down, the regional markets are cranking up. This is a regular pattern in real estate cycles.’

Mr Ryder said Newcastle has ‘arguably the strongest market in Australia right now’ with the area ‘well advanced in its cycle’.

Suburbs in the area have experienced a median price increase of more than 20% in the past 12 months, with nearby Cessnock, Maitland, Singleton and Musswellbrook now tapping into that growth.

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Sky-high auction clearance rates and the fear of missing out pushing up the prices of any property that was put on the market.

But how did the recent boom compare to previous property booms?

Earlier this year, CoreLogic dissected our housing cycle, categorising the past 20 years of data into five year increments, which revealed some interesting facts.

Firstly, comparing the last five years with previous market cycles showed that the increase in property prices we experienced were not as strong as some markets delivered in previous periods.

While Sydney’s property values increased 64.4% over the five years leading up to January 2018 and Melbourne dwelling prices increased 56.4% in the same period, the graphs below will show you how certain booms eclipsed these rates of growth in past cycles.

Across the capital cities according to CoreLogic, Melbourne has been leading the downturn, with the quarterly rate of decline outpacing Sydney since May this year.

Melbourne dwelling values were down 1.8% over the past three months, followed by Perth (-1.5%) and Sydney (-1.1%). Melbourne’s decline phase commenced five months later than Sydney’s, with the market peaking in November last year. Since that time, Melbourne dwelling values have fallen by 2.9%, while in Sydney, where values peaked twelve months ago, the market is down 5.4%.

Those cities where values continue to trend higher have also seen a sharp reduction in their rate of capital gain. In Brisbane and Adelaide, where housing values were rising at a more sustainable pace over the past five years, the annual rate of capital gains has weakened.

In Brisbane, the annual rate of growth has eased from 2.9% a year ago to 1.2% over the past twelve months and in Adelaide the annual growth rate has dropped from 5.4% a year ago to just 0.7% over the most recent twelve month period.

First home buyers are driving much of the Central Coast’s house price growth.

The latest Domain House Price Report out today shows the median home will set us back around $650,000. That’s an increase of 1.6% since last year.

But Domain’s Dr Nicola Powell says apartments saw the biggest jumps locally, they now typically cost $490,000.

“Units grew 1.6% over the last quarter and 4.7% over the year,” Dr Powell says.

“When you compare it to all the other regions within the Greater Sydney catchment, the Coast is outperforming all of those regions: It’s the most affordable area, and I think it’s that activation of First Home Buyers, we are seeing them move and migrate up to the Central Coast.”

Elsewhere Sydney House Prices have fallen 4.5% over the past year. While a house at Lake Macquarie will set you back an average of $522,000, an annual increase of 6%.