Search Results for: Mike Mortlock
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INDUSTRY NEWS
Buyers take the lead as listings surge
Buyers are back in the driver's seat with surging property listings across the country providing more opportunities and reduced competition.
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Real Estate News
Data insight: Regional properties outperform cities in rental yields
Regional property markets are obtaining higher rental yields for investors compared to their city counterparts, according to new analysis.
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INDUSTRY NEWS
Victoria likely to lose 5000 rental properties
Victoria is on the cusp of an ‘investor exodus’, with the state projected to lose 5,000 rental properties in the next 12 months.
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Real Estate News
Byron Bay the most unaffordable place to rent in Australia
Byron Bay, Mermaid Waters and Noosaville are the most unaffordable places to rent a property, according to new research.
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Movers and Shakers
Mike Mortlock and Cate Bakos join PIPA board
Mike Mortlock and Cate Bakos have joined the Property Investment Professionals of Australia (PIPA) board and hope to help further raise professional standards and grow the industry.
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INDUSTRY NEWS
Regional areas emerge as sanctuaries from the rental crisis
The rental crisis continues to put renters under extreme pressure, however, new research has found a number of regional areas are emerging as “sanctuaries” for renters in search of relief.
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INDUSTRY NEWS
The top 50 residential real estate influencers for 2023
There is rarely a dull day in real estate. From mergers and acquisitions, record sales and the AI boom, 2023 has once again been a year for the record books.
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INDUSTRY NEWS
Remote investing surges as investors head to WA
Remote investing has taken off in 2023, with the distance between where landlords live and where they invest almost doubling compared to last year.
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INDUSTRY NEWS
Investors flee the eastern states for Western Australia
After nearly a decade in the doldrums, property investors are flooding back into Western Australia at the expense of the East Coast.
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INDUSTRY NEWS
Failed QLD land tax has seen investors flee
The Queensland government’s failed attempt to introduce an expanded land tax has done long-term damage to the state’s stock of rental properties according to new analysis.
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INDUSTRY NEWS
Remote investing soars, but it could trouble tight rental markets
Remote investing has accelerated for the third year running, despite the easing of Covid restrictions, and it could spell bad news for some of our tightest rental markets.
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INDUSTRY NEWS
15 real estate professionals offer their property market predictions for 2022
After a bumper year for real estate, there’s a lot of talk about what the property market will do in 2022.
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Real Estate News
Australia’s most popular investment location revealed
Remote and borderless investing has been supercharged by COVID-19, with new data revealing property investors have doubled the distance between where they live and why they invest, in response to the pandemic. Managing Director of MCG Quantity Surveyors Mike Mortlock said the latest Property vs. Postal survey revealed a picture of changing investor buying habits. The numbers showed the average…
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Elite Agent
Survey: Aussie property investors buy an average of 300km from home
Gone are the days when property investors go and ‘kick the tyres’ themselves, so to speak. A new study by MCG Quantity Surveyors shows an abundance of Aussie-based property buyers are looking further afield for their investments, with 300km being the average distance between owners and their investment properties. Mike Mortlock, director of MCG Quantity Surveyors, analysed depreciation reports commissioned…
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Real Estate News
Report reveals lead indicators for property market’s return to form
A long-term study by MCG Quantity Surveyors is helping define investor trends which will flag the property market’s bounce back after COVID-19. MCG’s 1000 Assets report is a progressive, four-year analysis of investor direction and sentiment between January 2016 and December 2019. The report also took a pre-COVID snapshot of ‘normal market’ trends in place prior to the crisis. MCG Managing Director Mike Mortlock…
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Real Estate News
Quantity Surveyor data challenges validity of Labor’s negative gearing assumptions
New data released by MCG Quantity Surveyors is claiming the Labor Party relied on incorrect assumptions in formulating its negative gearing policy. According to the data, Labor’s assertions on the percentage of investors buying new homes were grossly understated and call into question the party’s revenue projections. “Shadow treasurer Chris Bowen has suggested new-buy investors comprised anywhere between four and…
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INDUSTRY NEWS
Federal budget changes to soften property market: MCG
The latest Federal Budget changes to depreciation rules have halved new investor benefits resulting in ongoing consequences for already softening property markets, according to analysis by MCG Quantity Surveyors. A comprehensive study of tax depreciation schedules by MCG revealed the results of depreciation benefits being slashed in the 2017 Federal Budget. MCG’s report found the average first-year claim for properties…
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