Re: Your property market opinion... sell or hold?
kenntona;832590 said:
These sorts of questions very hard to answer, all dependent on:
(1) holding horizon - how long are you planning to hold? 1 year or 5 year?
(2) leverage factor
(3) positive carry from rental yield
(4) entry level and buffer
If you are attempting to flip, just flip. If you are on a positive carry basis, you can stretch your timeframe longer. No one could bottom pick, and no one could top-slice. So, set your parameters and stick to your game plan.
Do note that policies play a part too.
And that, is in fact, the ultimate game changer. All other parameters can be safely estimated, planned and executed with meticulous detail but for the prata flipping and policy flopping that the MIW have been inclined to demonstrate on more than one occasion.
I'm not saying the cooling measures are bad - in fact, frankly, I'd much rather cooling measures now rather than blocks and blocks of empty, uncompleted condos ala Ireland and Spain later on. It's just that the MIW have been sending very mixed, confusing signals - on the one hand, they are applying the brakes, on the other hand, they keep harping on about the need for continued intake of foreign
trash, I mean
trolls, I mean,
types (I simply cannot bring myself to type "talent" when that quality isn't always clearly in abundance), which will only exert pressure on the property market...
So, ultimately, what ARE these geniuses in their ivory towers trying to accomplish? Who ARE they really trying to help? And with statistics so easily skewed (when it's convenient for them to lump PRs together as citizens, they will, and when it's no longer convenient, they won't), what can we believe anymore?