Margaret Lomas is a stalwart of the property investment sector as well as one of the founding members of PIPA. She looks back on how the industry and the association have changed over the years.

Housing investors are fleeing Victoria’s property market for states with lower taxes, raising doubts about the future supply of rental properties.

The inaugural 2024 PIPA Awards for Excellence were held in Sydney recently where the crème de la crème of the property investment profession was recognised for their commitment to best practice, ethics, and the PIPA Code of Conduct.

The only city on Western Australia’s Coral Coast and the largest north of Perth, Geraldton is a key regional centre that has expanded swiftly in recent years, in line with growth in Perth.

Despite increasing property taxes on private investors by 73 per cent since 2012, governments have failed to reinvest these funds in social housing, claimed the investment body.

A horror warning has been sent out for one-in-three Australians who are about to fork out a significant amount more money.

Anthony Albanese is not the only rental property owner in Australia throwing in the towel and selling up. More investors are quitting the property market as the combination of higher borrowing rates and new state-based taxes combine to make owning a rental property more trouble than it’s worth.

Governments are using private investors as scapegoats for a shocking underinvestment in social housing while raking in tens of billions of dollars in property taxes each year.

Property expert says today’s more-stable and sustainable market conditions represent ‘the perfect time to strike’.

Glenn Biggins is the director and finance strategist at Focus Property Wealth in WA, but he started his career as an engineer.

As Australia’s tax season rolls around again, the national tax office has a familiar group in its sights: landlords.

Melbourne buyers agent and PIPA director, Cate Bakos, echoed the need for an independent in-person inspection and said while agents had to act ethically, responsibly and honestly — their duty was to the vendor, and buyers could not assume agents would represent their interests.