A quick search on Google Trends tells us that the ‘No-Code Development Platform’ topic has been experiencing an upswing in worldwide interest since the end of 2019. The same applies to ‘Low-Code Development Platform’… but why now, and what do these terms actually mean?

Since the 2020 interest rate drops, speculation has arisen around how and when interest rates could return to an upward trajectory. We haven’t seen this from the RBA since November 2010, but with a cash rate of 0.1 percent, is there anywhere else for it to go?

Sydney is Australia’s most populous city, so it’s no wonder we hear a lot about the number of people leaving. Aside from the coronavirus pandemic, Sydney’s exodus was largely an interstate and intrastate occurrence, meaning that those leaving Sydney mostly moved elsewhere in New South Wales or Australia…

But what do they actually mean by the Australian property market? Can property investors be making money when Australian property prices are going down? Can they be losing money when prices are going up? Is the price of your asset changing if Australian property prices are flat? How about the supposed bubble?

One of the hottest topics of the past 12 months has been the droves of families relocating from major cities to the countryside—taking advantage of a more relaxed lifestyle and lower rates of coronavirus infection while maintaining their careers over Zoom, Slack and other digital collaboration platforms…

Now that an exhausting 2020 is behind us, members of the global community are looking to 2021 and beyond in hope of a roaring 20’s version two. Economic data from the OECD indicates that many economies are progressively returning to their pre-pandemic outputs…

For the last few years, the amount of foreign investment in Australian housing has plummeted. This corresponded with the implementation of penalty duties in every state and territory, which typically deemed an investment unviable…

In 1981, a cosy 3 bed, 2 bath brick home was sold in Melbourne’s north-west for $65,000. 1981 was a census year, and the national population reported at the time was just under 14.6 million. The same year, the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) estimated our population would increase to somewhere between 22.1 million and 26 million by the year 2021…

Property commentators regularly discuss the general rule of Australian real estate prices doubling every 10 to 15 years. This has been the case over recent decades, but some argue this will slow down…

The 2016 census told us that across the country housing is more affordable than it was in 2006 and 2011. On census night, 7.2 per cent of households had mortgage repayments equal to or higher than 30 per cent of household income. In 2006 it was 8.4 per cent and in 2011 it was 9.9 per cent.