Hotspotting

Terry Ryder has spent the greater part of 30 years researching and writing about real estate. After founding his business, Hotspotting, his focus became predicting where the next market boom will take place, and educating people about smart investment decisions. Hear him discuss how and why the media isn’t the place to get your investment advice.

The Perth market is the strongest it’s been since it lapsed into downturn five years ago. Vacancies are down, rents are rising, sales are up and 40% of suburbs have median prices higher than a year ago. Recovery is undoubtedly under way, even if it's not showing up in the generalised price data published by media. Our Autumn survey of sales activity for the Price Predictor Index has given a positive rating (rising, plateau or consistency) to 168 suburbs in the Perth metro area.

War on Misinformation - 18th April

April Live Q & A with Terry Ryder

Hotspot of the Week - 16th April

The Brisbane market has an underlying strength and it continues to show gradual improvement. It is poised to deliver on the potential growth shown by advances in the economy, population trends and infrastructure spending. In my latest survey of sales activity for the Price Predictor Index, the number of suburbs with growing demand has risen led by two stand-out precincts: the Moreton Bay Region and Brisbane - North, which means the market is strongest north of the Brisbane river.

Terry Ryder has spent the greater part of 30 years writing about real estate. He started out as a journalist from New Zealand, before becoming a widely renowned real estate researcher, author, as well as founder and director of HotSpotting. Ryder’s work enables him to predict where the real estate market will boom next. Join us in this episode of Property Investory to hear all about how Ryder organically transitioned from journalism to real estate, and how he started his successful business.

Australians hoping to buy their first home will be buoyed by a new report which has found the average time needed to save a deposit has fallen over the past 12 months in major capital cities. Domain analysed entry-level house prices in the cities' most affordable areas and estimated the time required to save a 20% deposit, drawing on average wage data from the ABS.

Hotspot of the Week: 9 April 2019

Hotspot of the Week: 2nd April 2019

Cheapies with Prospects

Economists who see Australia as a single market are the greatest single source of misinformation about residential property. Most of their thinking is devoted to the national economy, the share market and money markets - areas where there’s a single entity to analyse. So, when they turn their thoughts to real estate, they apply the same process . Accordingly, their rhetoric is now about the market downturn and the fall in “Australian property prices”.

The Ryder Report - March Edition

Hotspot of the Week: 26th March 19

Computer generated lists which rank property markets according to the size of median price growth in the past 12 months provide essentially dodgy data. Places with only a few sales, give a medium price which is unreliable and therefore the alleged increase in the median price is a special form of dodgy data. The way medians work, if you have a small sales sample, the median will be extremely suspect. At Hotspotting, we exclude any place with fewer than 30 sales in a year.