PHOTO: If you are trying to predict what’s coming in the property market, don’t look at the real estate statistics – they only represent the past.

2019 has already shown itself as a year of confusing economic signals, mixed real estate messages and bewildered investors.

In other words: the perfect environment for strategic long-term real estate investors.

Over the last 25 years or so, I‘ve been analysing the Australian property markets from a unique point of view – I don’t look at the real estate numbers.

To be honest I wasn’t doing it this way for the first 18 years or so of my investing career, but since I’ve changed what I look for, it’s made a huge difference to my results and those of my clients.

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