Forget Residential Property Gains…
‘Private equity giant Blackstone is backing a further shift online — with Christmas just the start — after investing $2.1bn in a Dexus logistics property trust.
When you read articles about Australian housing affordability, it is often comparing the single average adult wage to house prices, from generations ago.
The articles generally say something like, ‘a house was worth three times the annual average wage back in the sixties and is now worth 10 times the average wage. This shows housing has become unaffordable.’
You can’t compare the two because back in the sixties it was one wage bidding on real estate.
The days of Dad going off to work, while Mum tends the children are long gone, just like the black and white TVs of that era.
It is now usually at least two incomes bidding on Australian real estate, land price has quickly factored that in. So you can’t compare the two figures.
These days you need to find historical figures for combined household income and compare the two.
When you do that you may find housing affordability hasn’t run away at all, but is simply keeping pace with wages.

‘Private equity giant Blackstone is backing a further shift online — with Christmas just the start — after investing $2.1bn in a Dexus logistics property trust.
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Still, if you presume increasing numbers will be using the metaverse to shop, work, and play, that means that the location of the digital land in the metaverse could potentially yield a significant economic rent.

In this we predicted the booming housing market we are currently in. Hardly anyone bought it because nobody could believe housing could boom because of the pandemic.
By Callum Newman,

Only around 20–23% of the real estate market in Greater Melbourne is sold via auction. However, the percentage does have a good correlation to prices, and is a leading indicator to changes in trend…

You don’t have to believe me on this. Regulators have been tinkering with capital levels since the 1980s.
By Callum Newman,

No surprise then that it also correlates close to our forecast peak of this real estate cycle and therefore, will likely open on the precipice of the downturn. However, until then, it’s boom times ahead for the real estate market.
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