National Office Market Shows Steady Improvement

Posted on 07. Feb, 2012 by Chris Lang.

Across the 26 markets depicted in the graph, demand was up 20% up and supply 30% down, on the 20-year average for the six-monthly period.

Total vacancies fell from 9.0% to 7.9% ? the lowest since January 2009.

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Commercial Property Needs to be Properly Managed ... THEN You Will Profit Handsomely

Posted on 02. Feb, 2012 by Chris Lang.

Once you have carefully chosen your Commercial property investment, and negotiated a great deal with the purchase ... you then need to turn your mind to ensuring you extract the most from it, during the time of your ownership.

Here are the Key Areas where your Property Manager needs to be really well versed.

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What Will Happen to Interest Rates
When The RBA Meets Next Week?

Posted on 31. Jan, 2012 by Chris Lang.

The general consensus seems to be that the RBA will further reduce rates by 25 basis points. But can this view be fully justified; and what does this mean for Commercial property investors?

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Commercial Property: Global Influence?

Posted on 23. Jan, 2012 by Chris Lang.

Last year saw $US400 billion in direct commercial property deals worldwide — which reflected an increase of 25% on 2010.

Australia's share of those deals was $6.5 billion in Office towers during last year — with 28% of those purchases being made by overseas buyers.

And this is expected to continue strongly during 2012.

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Commercial Property: What Makes for a Balanced Office Market?

Posted on 19. Jan, 2012 by Chris Lang.

EVERY capital city has both a CBD and suburban Office market. And as you can appreciate, keeping tabs on all the various suburban markets is almost an impossible task for most investors. As a rule of thumb, Office markets are said to the "in balance", when their Vacancy Rate lies between 5% and 7%.

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Is There a Credit Squeeze Looming?

Posted on 17. Jan, 2012 by Chris Lang.

The banks seemed to be protesting about the increased cost of offshore borrowing. And using that as their excuse for not wanting to pass on any future RBA rate reductions in full.

But are they really telling you the whole truth?

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Why Interest Rates Will Start To Soar!

Posted on 01. Apr, 2009 by Chris Lang.

If you're like most people you are probably trying to second guess whether or not the RBA will reduce official interest rates by 0.25% or 0.5% over the next month or so. So, should you fix your rates on your Commercial property now, or wait a while? Realistically, you need to study what is actually [...]

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