What you must look for in your next investment suburb

Created on 03 November 2014

As an investor, when you’re looking at buying in an area you should be looking at what the demographics of what the owners are there. Are there a lot of owner-occupiers? Or are there a lot of investors, in other words landlords, in that area? If there are a lot of owner-occupiers in that area then the is two sides to that coin. Obviously with more owner-occupiers, the streets ape is likely to be a lot more pleasant but on the flip side you also need to look at from a tenants point of view as to why there’s a higher owner-occupier content. Is it more conducive to home ownership rather than rentals?