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Recent poll results
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If you have moved house in recent years, please tell us what the motivating factor was for the move.
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- Change in domestic situation: 40.5%
- Cost: 2.7%
- Closer to work/facilities/transport: 32.4%
- Safer area or property: 5.4%
- Opportunity to renovate for profit: 8.1%
- Opportunity to renovate for own use: 10.8%
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Considering the recent downturn in the Australian stock market, rising interest rates and the potential for future backlash from a recession in the USA, how would you invest your funds over the next 12 months to best weather the storm?
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- Hold investment property in anticipation that rising rents will help offset higher interest rates: 26.7%
- buy more investment property in anticipation that Australia's fundamentals are sound: 31.1%
- Buy more shares as the current sell off is an over-reaction: 14.4%
- Liquidate assets, pay off debt and/or place the money in the bank or equivalent: 7.8%
- Do nothing at present until the dust settles and economic direction becomes more clear: 20.0%
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What would you like the most for Christmas this year?
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- Interest rates to remain steady: 4.1%
- House prices to continue to grow: 24.5%
- Lower property taxes/charges: 8.2%
- Rents to increase: 12.2%
- A better principal place of residence: 6.1%
- another investment property: 30.6%
- More shares: 6.1%
- More cash in the bank: 8.2%
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Where would you buy for the best capital growth over the next five years?
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- An apartment in a seachange location with a view of the ocean: 24.6%
- An inner city apartment in a mixed-use highrise development: 1.6%
- A small-lot detached house with a golf course frontage: 11.5%
- A detached house on a large suburban allotment in an urban growth corridor: 37.7%
- A townhouse near new infrastructure in a middle-ring suburb: 24.6%
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What impact would a Federal Labor Government have on the residential property market?
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- Slower price growth, fewer sales and less new housing starts: 33.3%
- Stronger price growth, more sales and an increase in new housing construction: 9.5%
- A dramatic drop in sales and starts plus falling end prices: 19%
- Fewer new housing starts but no impact on the existing market: 4.8%
- No impact on both the new and existing markets: 33.3%
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Given the recent turmoil in the share market, what do you think investors will do?
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- Start buying residential property: 37.5%
- Buy a commercial property asset: 0.0%
- Place their money in the bank: 1.8%
- Increase their contribution into superannuation: 7.1%
- Buy more shares: 14.3%
- Pay off debt: 10.7%
- Do nothing for a while until the situation calms down: 28.6%
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