Why Melbourne? Why Ivanhoe?

  • By Peter Gordon
  • 11 Apr, 2019

Every property we recommend is stringently selected, every location is backed by research. We look Australia wide to pinpoint ‘What’s Hot and What’s Not’. We recommend research based solutions to our clients. Property can’t just tick one box. It has to tick all the right boxes.

Listed below are the macro & micro indicators that we use to pinpoint the right state and then the right capital city, suburb or regional market.

The Macroeconomic Indicators – the location

Population Growth – Where are the people moving to?

Infrastructure Investment – What are governments and private companies investing in?

Employment – Infrastructure investment should create long term employment hubs. What are employment prospects?

Economy – What’s driving the local economy?

Developer - Are they building quality developments and estates? What’s their track record?

 

The Microeconomic Indicators – the property

Amenities – Does it have the right amenities for the residents?

Transport – Is it easily connected to the suburb, city and beyond?

Value – Does it show true value for money?

Design – Is it a functional floor plan with quality finishes?

Rent-ability – What’s the desirability to rent in the area?

 

Utilising the key macro & micro indicators, we’re ticking all the right boxes for Victoria, then Melbourne. We then dig deeper to research across the metropolitan market to pinpoint the right suburbs to invest in. Now we start to see a story unfold based on a solid foundation of research.

Selecting the right State - Melbourne

  • Victorian population growth: 2.19% or 138,140 residents past 12 months
  • Melbourne growth: 2,200 new residents per week
  • New jobs: +114,000 in past 12 months
  • Economic growth: 3.5%
  • Most liveable city in the world 2011-2018
  • Diversity of employment
  • 1.6 million dwellings need to be built by 2050

Selecting the right Suburb – Ivanhoe

  •  La Trobe National Employment & Innovation Cluster totalling +27,000 people employed in -
     - Health precinct, Education precinct, Heidelberg West Industrial Precinct and Northland Employment Precinct
  • Infrastructure Investment-  
     - Latrobe University $5 Billion upgrade +20,000 jobs over 10 years and space for +40,000 students- Transport $135.9M
     - Health $498M
     - North East Link $100M
     - Oliver Newton John Cancer Research Institute $18M

  • Population growth of 3.73% from 2016-2021
  • Train station is a 10-minute walk away then 29-minute commute into CBD
  • Ivanhoe is Melbourne’s 8th most liveable suburb
  • Rent-ability – lower supply of construction

Using these statistics, we then pinpointed the suburb of Ivanhoe which starts to tell us a ‘Local Suburb Story’. Having a health and education precinct, we know the area will have high rental demand from both employees and students. It has infrastructure investment for jobs and education, plus transportation upgrades for greater connectivity to the Melbourne CBD and beyond. It has above average income earning and the rental demographic is 18-39 year olds.

Once we pinpoint the suburb, then we find the development that has it all: value for money, quality fixtures & finishes and great design. And we’ve found it, and this particular property is set to revolutionise apartment living through a suite of resident amenities & services never before offered.

Please contact the Investo Team for more info

By Peter Gordon April 26, 2023

Quiet simply, the Palms is the place to buy!

The northern beaches of Cairns is the Nation's best location for property investors right now, and The Palms is the premier development in this boom region.

It has the best location being elevated and backing onto the rainforest. It will have amazing facilities with a shopping village, a primary school, parks and green open space, a water park and an expanse of wildlife corridors.

It has taken the developers three years to get planning approval for this unique development to be able to hit the market. There are only 300 lots spread across 85 acres of the best land in The Northern Beaches.  Residents will have an abundance of open space right at their doorstep.  The Palms is also the only Certified Enviro Development project in Far North Queensland.

> Cairns Snapshot

By Peter Gordon April 20, 2023

Sydneysiders and Melburnians, put aside your equally outstanding flat whites for a moment. Stop bickering about whether great beaches beat cool laneways (they do) and desist from debating whether all baristas require waxed moustaches (ideally).

Because Brisbane is closing in on the title of Australia’s best city, and we must join forces to keep this subtropical upstart in its place.

Time  magazine recently named Brisvegas on its “World’s Greatest Places” list, and omitted our cities. It’s a huge shock (and who knew they still published Time  magazine?). But they might be onto something.

Time  points to the 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games, which will be hosted in the maroon metropolis. Brisbane will do a fine job, even though it’ll baffle the world when rugby league is added to the schedule and Queensland is allowed to field its own team.

Time’s  most radical claim is that Brisbane is worth visiting now, but tourism is surging. Not only did Lin-Manuel Miranda recently drop in to catch Hamilton , but hundreds of Hamilfans flew up to watch his interview with Leigh Sales (presumably unaware that it would subsequently arrive on iView for free).


By Peter Gordon April 6, 2023
This small duplex development just a short drive from Hervey Bay on Queensland’s beautiful Fraser Coast, offers an incredible lifestyle at an affordable price. With unprecedented demand and very limited supply, prices look set to skyrocket.

A leading local agent has appraised each side of these duplex's to be worth $665k on completion and rent for $495 per week. So that is massive potentail instant equity of up to $390K on completion, which is incredibly hard to find.
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