Tuesday, December 6, 2011
We bust a real estate myth, South Africans still love property and consider it an excellent investment. This comes from an extensive survey conducted by Private Property and market research company Columinate. Some of the results were astounding. Read more to get a few juicy incites…
Tuesday, December 6, 2011
Economists that analyse property are a negative bunch at the moment spurting enough doom to make you choke on your Christmas cake.
If you choose to see the cup half empty it probably will be, but more than ever we need to take a good look at how we have prepared ourselves for retirement and the [...]
Monday, September 5, 2011
his year the Discovery Invest Leadership Summit will be taking place in Johannesburg at Sandton I don’t recommend much as a rule because everyone’s taste is different and it is seen to be a bit of a sales pitch but once a year discovery puts together a one day summit where they find some of the worlds most topical thought leaders and bring them to SA speak….
Monday, September 5, 2011
While we should not read too much into the property price stats and analysis released every month by the banks and others, I can’t help keep an eye on the broad trends to reaffirm my own investment appetite. There is so much news about the on-going European and American debt crisis, and the potential knock on effect it will have on our own economy that one needs re-affirmation and motivation to stay the course with real estate investment, and to be even bolder as others shy away from buying residential real estate.
Monday, August 1, 2011
Last year I wrote a lot about the ten fundamentals that encouraged me to buy more residential investment units. ABSA and FNB released data recently so I thought it would be a good to revisit some of the relevant indicators that they comment on to see if residential property is still a viable asset class.
1.Rising [...]
Wednesday, July 6, 2011
Hopefully I have convinced you that property investment should be the “bricks and mortar” of your investment portfolio, and a great place to create wealth and residual income. Like any venture, fortune favours the bold, so there is no time like now to get out there and make it happen. No one can give you [...]
Wednesday, July 6, 2011
I am a free market advocate. If you want more housing, create an environment that gives benefit to the individual who creates it, and make sure that the markets are well oiled, and you will get housing. The more you interfere with the market the less chance you will achieve that goal. When we build or buy houses, we create supply, which collectively, keeps the price of housing in South Africa relatively low. (Even though we are trying to profit from the price increases that inevitably come when demand outstrips supply)
Wednesday, May 25, 2011
This morning I received an email from a person who had read an article that I wrote, and he was asking what are the “fundamentals” property investors talk about so prolifically. I got to thinking that maybe they are not so obvious. So here are my fundamentals…
Wednesday, May 11, 2011
What is a good property market and who gets to decide? One of the biggest questions at dinner parties, in the press and I am even blogging about it, is the current state of the property market, especially with the recent spate of Malema-isms.
Monday, March 28, 2011
The trick to investing in property is efficient gearing, put simply, using a large proportion of other people’s money, most likely borrowed from a bank. If you have a large proportion of your real estate portfolio financed, and the total value of the Real Estate goes up by a few percentage points, your return on [...]
