The Wakelin Blog

In June the Minister for Financial Services and Superannuation, Bill Shorten, announced that the Future of Financial Advice reforms had passed into law. At the time, the Minister claimed that “as a result of the measures passed by the Senate today, every Australian consumer can be more confident that their financial planner or adviser is putting customers’ interests first and that the advice they receive is not influenced by sales commissions...

A slower-than-usual increase in new residential property supply in spring may well underpin prices and auction clearance rates in the inner and middle suburbs of Melbourne. Our sense, as things stand, is that spring 2012 will be characterised by reasonably good demand...

Please click on the image below to watch a recording of Tuesday night's webinar, Property investors' classic mistakes Timestamp Stuart Wemyss: 1:54 to 33:20 Monique Sasson Wakelin: 33:20 to 43:15 Questions: 43:15 - 61:00 The following participant questions were answered by the panellists: No...

Click here to hear Monique speaking to Hilary Harper last Saturday regarding the state of the property market and opportunities in fast-approaching Spring.   Image: Pixomar

Yesterday, the Australian Bureau of Statistics released its Eight Capital Cities House Price Indexes for the June 2012 quarter. It was the last of the four main data providers to publish – the others being RP Data-Rismark, Australian Property Monitors and Residex. As usual, there is a fair amount of divergence between the four data providers about the state of the market. This shouldn’t be a surprise...