You only have to open any newspaper or turn on the radio to know that many parts of Australia are experiencing a property boom, with the price of many properties increasing significantly above their long term trends.

One of the lessons coming out of the last few years is that property downturns never last, but then neither do property booms.

So how can investors make the most of this new property boom, which on past record may only last a few years? In fact I know some commentators don’t even think it will last that long!

The answer is simple.

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As Australia enters a new economic cycle many investors are asking, “What’s the right type of investment for the new financial era?”

They understand that the economy is going to recover, interest rates will increase and inflation is likely to return, due to our government borrowing money and pumping it into the system.

Recently the world lost one of its great philosophers, mentors and teachers – Jim Rohn.

Jim Rohn’s articles have always been popular with readers of Property Update. Here we feature Darren Hardy giving a final keynote at Jim Rohn’s tribute event.

This is a very powerful message summarizing the principles of Jim Rohn, so please watch through the first 2 minutes until you get into the “meat” of the message. It will be well worth it.

Watch for some inspiration...

I have been very upbeat in my last few market updates, explaining how we are now at the beginning of a new property cycle, how fortunes will be made by some property investors and how property prices will once again double over the next decade.

Well today I’m going to introduce a word of caution…

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The last issue of Property Update, where I predicted median property prices will be well over $1million by the end of the decade, created quite a stir; there was much publicity in the media, with news interviews around Australia and some controversy that saw many people emailing me saying that this couldn’t happen because of “affordability” issues.

However, there is so much misinformation about the topic of housing affordability that I felt I must address it in this issue’s market commentary.

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What is the best investment?

Should you put your money into property or shares? Or maybe you should buy gold bullion or tip some extra money into your superannuation?

This is the type of debate the media loves to sink its teeth into and recently Your Money took a look at which investments performed best over the past decade. While their results are not surprising, in my opinion they are misleading. But before I explain why, let’s see what they said...

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Median house prices will be well over $1million in every capital city at the end of this new decade, and in many cases they will be considerably more, according to the latest forecasts from Metropole Property Investment Strategists Research www.metropole.com.au

Now I know this is a bold forecast, but a lot can happen in 10 years. Let’s look at what happened to property values over the last 10 years...

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Imagine, for a moment, that it is 12 months from today. How will our property markets have fared in 2010?

It know it’s customary to give a forecast at this time of year, but if there is one thing that we have learnt from the Global Financial Crisis, it is that economists and analysts are terrible at forecasting the future – they didn’t see the calamity coming nor the quick recovery that followed and many economists predicted the Australian property markets would fall in a heap. And they were wrong, as the overall property market grew strongly last year.

I was one of the few who went on public record this time last year as saying that our residential property markets wouldn’t collapse and I’m going to stick my neck out and make some predictions for the coming year, but before I do lets have a look at the results for 2009.

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