Genuine boom or property bubble? What are the real reasons for the rise in Gold Coast house prices?

We compare two Gold Coast suburbs - one new, one established - and see which suburb makes the better investment option.

The Brisbane Property Market has continued to grow, but hasn't boomed as many had predicted. Find out what factors are affecting Brisbane's growth, what properties will perform well and what properties you should avoid.

From our increasingly analysis-free public discourse, you might have gotten the idea that the world's in some kind of trouble. It's not.

Buying an investment property can be a great path to wealth creation - but first you need to buy the right investment property. Here are some simple tips to help you acquire a property that will achieve investment-grade returns:

Massive price falls or business as usual? What would a Labor government's housing policy actually mean for the property market?

As the Sydney and Melbourne growth cycles start to moderate, the traditional search for ‘the next big thing’ has well and truly commenced. With the Perth and Darwin markets in decline, and Adelaide and Hobart sclerotic, Brisbane seems to be the winner by default – the Steven Bradbury of property markets if you like. Plenty of ink has been spilled on the subject, with many analysts predicting it as the best performer of Australia’s capital cities for 2016. Others are more pessimistic.

In this article we deal with a critical statistic for determining if a suburb is good for investment or not - the owner-occupier to renter ratio.