Martin North | To buy, or not to buy: that is the question | Insights from Digital Finance Analytics

After Chris’s numerous appearances on Martin North’s ‘Walk the world’ Youtube channel we finally have brought Martin to our own turf. Martin is the founder of Digital Finance Analytics, a boutique research, analysis and consulting firm, he is one of the most regarded authorities in the research space with several media contributions such as ABC new, AFR and 60 minutes. In this data driven episode, we get down to the question at hand: do you buy or do you sell, what is the data showing, and is it reliable? Find out if people are borrowing too much, what properties are beating the downturn and how are individuals discovering the opportunity.

Here’s what we covered:

• How are the 1000 households surveyed every week reflective of Australia?
• How did Martin enter into the finance commentary arena?
• What patterns are showing which suburbs are going up and which are going down.
• How are the 250,000 first home buyers (per year)  finding ways to enter the market?
• Why newly built properties are at the greatest risk.
• How is the data segmented to better reflect real profiles?
• Will there be low or high capital growth over the coming years?
• Are we reaching our 'peak debt'?
• How many properties are vacant in Australia?
• Why is there simultaneous oversupply and undersupply in the market?
• What happens now since migration is zero?

MENTIONED EPISODES:Episode 103 | Amanda Farmer Episode 113 | Dr. Nicole Johnson

GUEST LINKS:DFA - Blog - Youtube Article 1 Mapping Mortgage Stress Article 2 Housing price falls and negative equity

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EPISODE TRANSCRIPT: Please note that this has been transcribed by half-human-half-robot, so brace yourself for typos and the odd bit of weirdness…This episode was recorded on 23 April, 2020.

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