Quote from m22au:
Macroman it sounds like you have your finger on the pulse. Are you from Australia by any chance?
#8 in your list below is interesting. Even though the RBA cash rate is "only" 4.75%, you can easily get 6.25% at-call at NAB and CBA, with both the explicit government guarantee (until late 2011) and then an implicit government guarantee thereafter.
I am from sydney. property research i do is to manage my small property portfolio. Trying to figure out what is really happening on the ground and decide if and at what price sydney property is a value.