Month: January 2016

Written by  Michael Murray A major problem for people researching or studying property is getting good information. Most national media publications provide generic data for the country as a whole. Good to fill column inches but useless at giving the...

Written by  Michael Murray Who can guess which city beats Sydney as the most unaffordable in the world? The International Demographia Survey just released its 12th annual report. It charts the cities with the highest wage to home price ratio....

Written by  Michael Murray Byron Bay Real Estate As we wound down out of 2015, there was interest on whether the strong buyer demand would be sustained into the new year. It is a bit early to be definitive, but...

Written by  Michael Murray Apparently one of the most mispelled words in real estate search is "en-suite". Most people have it in their heads as "sweet" and spell it that way. It is the third most common spelling mistake. English...

Written by  Michael Murray Recent extreme fluctuations on international stock markets created a lot of media. It is often asked whether turbulence like this affects the local real estate market and it is a good question. The answer appears to...