It’s a popular market sentiment that property prices will experience a downward trend in 2009. Thus 2009 being a buyer’s market means that bargain hunters will be busy on the lookout in the Australian property market. Since some location fare better than others, market analysts are already searching for property hotspots. Lower housing affordability together with rising interest rates, skyrocketing fuel prices and increasing household spending continues to fuel the demand for the broader market.

The Australian bureau of statistics has reported that house prices depreciated to the lows of 1.8 per cent in the last quarter, the biggest documented drop since 1980s. The only cushion for the market being the active employment market, immigration and well controlled supply. The situation has slowly worsened, with the global recession being viewed to likely bring about asset disposals and, possibly, a depression. This turn of events has forced Market analyst’s to adopt a more protective approach towards investment opportunities.

Their attitude is informed by the belief that besides general opportunities to pick up troubled assets, there are areas that will experience greater property volatility than others. Though the occurrence of this situation offers greater bargain opportunities and capital gains for the longer term, it is important to be objective.

Many property forecasters believe that Adelaide and Melbourne stands a better chance than most of the other metropolis in the long term, this is because easier land supply boosts affordability hence makes the city a property hotspot and easy for private developers to work. Adelaide and Melbourne both have the benefit of competitive land supply and strong immigration levels.  Queensland area is more of a wildcard. The government has declared that it wants to establish a green belt on the south coast and is releasing land in the hinterland; an action many believe will stop growth.

Perth will most likely be linked with the mining sector and a move that carries greater investment risk, since prices are already overstated. Darwin is also believed to be expensive. Sydney has historically favored to move towards the Sunshine State, so the looming wave of retiring baby boomers should help keep the floor under control. Property hotspots are hard to ascertain, but do your research carefully and you will benefit.

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The Adelaide Social Media Workshop this weekend is going to be brilliant. Throughout the course of the weekend Internet Marketing and Social Media newbies from Adelaide will be taught how to:

* Rank on the Google home page in under 24hrs
* Build a website and market a product for FREE in just 30 minutes
* Access internet traffic at a fraction of the cost that others pay
* Make money even without having your own website
* Maximise online earnings with proven website structures and colours
* Access proven email marketing strategies and much more!

They are also going to be shown an amazing Social Media strategy for the eyes of the Adelaide people only. I hope they are excited, I’m excited, that’s for sure.

Why didn’t we attend the Adelaide Social Media Workshop?

Well we would have loved to have been at the Adelaide workshop helping out and seeing some upcoming internet marketing newbies obtain the same satisfaction levels that we had last August. We decided however, to stay here is Sydney to attend and help out at the Sydney Coaching workshop which is being run by Sean Rasmussen.

Even though we have been able to achieve our goal of replacing our income in 6 months using online marketing strategies we have to be sure to keep up with the latest information online. The internet is constantly changing and evolving so investing in our education is going to be essential to keep ahead of the game. That’s why we have chosen to stay in Sydney this weekend instead of attending the Adelaide Social Media Workshop.

At the moment Sean Rasmussen is at the front of the room teaching some advanced blogging techniques - retweet plugins, how to set up your permalinks, facebook ineraction, delicious, you name it, we are learning from the absolute best.

We did however manage to sneak out and film a quick you tube video to say G’Day to all the folk at the Adelaide Social Media Workshop. Check it out:

NicciAndLee hope everyone at the Adelaide Social Media Workshop had a great weekend and we look forward to getting to know you over the next while.