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Investors keen to buy, and live, on the coast
By Chris Pullen, Blue Wave Property Strategies Over the past few months, there have been more and more signs that the Sunshine Coast property market has been experiencing different conditions to many other locations – and not just in Queensland but also around the...
New Coast City Centre Perfect for Post-Pandemic Future
By Chris Pullen, Blue Wave Property Strategies There are certain things that happen that in hindsight seem perfectly timed for a future event that you could never have predicted. What I’m talking about is the impacts of the pandemic on the way that many of us will...
Why Sunshine Coast Property Prices are Set to Soar – Even in a Recession
By Chris Pullen, Blue Wave Property Strategies It’s been official for a while that our national economy is in recession. The last time we were in a technical recession was a few decades ago because the GFC, at least in Australia, is classed as an economic downturn....
Buy Now or Forever Wish You Had
By Chris Pullen, Blue Wave Property Strategies Unfortunately, it’s a truth universally acknowledged that most people don’t decide to invest in property until everyone else is doing the same thing. It’s the herd mentality or an ill-conceived “safety in numbers”...
Property Price “Cliff” that Doesn’t Exist
By Chris Pullen, Blue Wave Property Strategies Do you remember a few months ago, or even a few days ago, when lots of property watchers were predicting price falls from October? Seemingly, the end of the JobKeeper wage subsidy was going to be the beginning of a market...
The Rise of Ethical Property Investors
By Chris Pullen, Blue Wave Property Strategies Property investment has evolved over the years as the sector has matured and more people took charge of their financial futures. Long gone are the days when (most) people thought they could just buy any old property,...
Property Armageddon is on the way… according to the media
By Chris Pullen, Blue Wave Property Strategies If you have been reading property stories in the media over the past few days, you’d probably think that markets everywhere are tanking big time. Seemingly, property prices are falling off a cliff and a massive influx of...
Why Queensland first home buyers should beg or borrow (or grovel to their parents) to get into the market
Why Queensland first home buyers should beg or borrow (or grovel to their parents) to get into the market By Chris Pullen First home buyers across southeast Queensland have the best chance in a long while to get into the property market at present. That’s because they...
How COVID-19 Will Affect Your Investment Portfolio
Currently at the moment if you are an investor you might be looking at whether to grab a life vest and sell some of your properties as this is an uncertain time. Over the long term however this is a losing strategy. I think we can all take this as a learning curve to...
Saving In A Post COVID-19 Climate
With social distancing and government restrictions easing, have you looked over your bank accounts while in isolation, seen a surplus of funds and wondered which bill you forgot to pay? A lot of Australians have been reflecting on their weeks in self-isolation and...
Property Vs Shares
Well as I write this the Corona Virus is hitting the works with vengeance, China, Italy, Europe the USA and now Australia. As an investor it is all shaky ground at the moment with the stock market going up and down like a yoyo and people unsure of what the property...
How Will The Coronavirus Affect Property Prices?
Since the Corona Virus has increased throughout every country everyone has a few questions about what the economy will do and what will property prices do. Unfortunately, prices will be negative as prices will go down. There has been a lot of talk about the property...