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

Best known as a tourist destination, can the Southern Gold Coast transform itself into a hub for business, innovation and lifestyle? Here's some ways it might go about it.

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.