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Episode 259: The Differences Between American and Australian Property Markets | David Sidoni, How to Buy a Home Podcast

Property bears who predict that the Australian property prices will nosedive to 40% will often refer to what happened to the American property market in the mid 2000s…

Is this basis reliable? Are the circumstances in both property markets similar to encounter the same outcome?

In this episode, we are joined by David Sidoni, the host of How to Buy a Home Podcast, to do a comparative analysis on the Australian and American property market. 

We discuss the government’s control over property prices, home loan rates, drivers of property prices, buyer’s agents and more!

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Episode Highlights:

  1. The Great Financial Crisis [02:29]

  2. Mortgage rates in the U.S. [11:29]

  3. Economic slowdown amid inflation [19:14]

  4. The Airbnb space [23:24]

  5. The role of the buyer’s agent in US [24:46]

  6. Government manipulation of interest rates [32:18]

  7. What is the 1031 Exchange? [34:54]

  8. Closing costs, explained [41:12]

  9. What caused the Great Recession? [43:45]

  10. “Rent back”: the natural process of a sale [50:00]

  11. David’s property Dumbo [52:57]

About our Guest:

David Sidoni began his real estate career in 2005 and after serving hundreds of first time home buyers in southern California, in 2019 he decided he was sick and tired of seeing first time home buyers being treated like garbage by the real estate industry.  He kept seeing them passed over by the experienced Realtors and used as gunnie pigs for brand new agents to “get their feet wet” and learn how to be Realtors.  Well, he didn’t have time to retrain an entire industry, so he decided to start the How to Buy a Home podcast and peel back the curtain for first time buyers and let them know the insider secrets on how to find the rare professionals that would give them the service they deserve.  Now with almost 800,000 downloads and hours of free education and videos at www.HowtoBuyaHome.com the revolution has begun and first timers all over the US and Canada are getting empowered with real expertise from a true advocate for all frustrated renters seeking real, quality information and guidance

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