Guide to Library Resources

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Property Cash Flow and Analysis

• Guide to Library Resources
• david.litting_at_uts.edu.au
• 95143390

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What Well Cover Today

• Ways of getting factual information to assist you
  in completing your assignment
• Ways of finding theoretical information to help
  you understand the ideas behind property
  economics
• Ways of getting in touch with a librarian if you
  need help in the future

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The Assignment

• Choose a property possibly your own home and
  develop a cash flow model to determine investment
  worthiness

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What youll need

• Local area information
• Demographic Forecasting
• Local information on land costs
• Property Market Facts and Growth
• Financial Statistics eg Interest rates
• Company information risk analysis
• Background knowledge of property and economic
  issues

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Property Economics Study Guide groups many of
the resources youll needstudy guides/built
environment/property economics/statistics
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Local Area Information

• To assist you in making your cash flow model
  youll need information about the area your
  property is in
• This information is held by the Australian Bureau
  of Statistics
• Find this information by typing Ausstats into
  the library catalogue.

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Austats/Census/Community Profile
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Each Area Has a Detailed Spreadsheet
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Ausstats also keeps Housing statistics(themes/peo
ple/housing)
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Demographic Forecasting

• A great place to access information about the
  expected changes in the population of Australia
  as a whole is GMID (Global Market Information
  Database)
• Access this by typing GMID into the library
  catalogue

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GMIDCountry Profiles - Australia
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GMID Future Demographics - Australia
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Rent and SalesReports

• Are available from the NSW Government Department
  of Housing website www.housing.nsw.gov.au
• Its also a link from the Property Economics
  Study Guide
• Choose rent and sales report from quick links
• The reports chart the change in land costs

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Stats are Available By State and Capital City
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And also by postcode
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Residential Property Prospects

• This is a hardcopy service, available in the
  Closed Reserve Section of UTS library call
  number 333.3370994 RESI. Its published by BIS
  Shrapnel.
• This is a wonderful resource, containing
  information such as
• residential property cycle graph,
• demand for housing,
• key economic indicators including consumption,
  private investment in dewellings, gross national
  expenditure, inflation and wages /cpi, etc.,
• approvals, home loans, migration interstate,
  vacancy rates AND MORE!

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Other Similar Publications(from BIS Shrapnel)

• These are also hardcopy, and available from
  Closed Reserve
• Building Industry Prospects - 338.4769 buil This
  contains forecast of dwelling commencements
• Building in Australia (2008-2023) - 338.47624/3
  (ed.28)This contains projections for the next 15
  years for things like
• property values by captial city
• demand for dwellings
• propects for building dwellings,
• building activity by state

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Interest Rates RBA website

• You can reach the RBA website through the
  Property Economics Study guide or direct at
  www.rba.gov.au
• The RBA provides helpful tables compiling various
  interest rate information.
• Eg http//www.rba.gov.au/ChartPack/interest_rates
  _australia.pdf

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RBA Interest Rates
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Company Information MintGlobal

• Information about Australian construction
  companies (and other companies here and overseas)
  is available through the library catalogue via
  the MintGlobal service
• Choose companies like Meriton, Mirvac, Macquarie

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Example Meriton (MintGlobal)
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Cash Flow Modelling

• A good place to search for information about how
  to create a cash flow model is with the library
  catalogue.
• If a book is being borrowed press the
• button and it will be reserved for you

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The Catalogue is also good for Capital Gains Tax
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Real Estate Investment
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Journal Articles

• Journal Articles tend to be of a more limited
  scope than books (ie they are shorter in
  length), however there are more of them and they
  come out more frequently than books.
• Journal articles can be located in databases
• Lists of databases good for Property studies are
  included in the Property Economics study guide

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Databases on the study guide
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Sample database Australian Public Affairs
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Need Help? Ask a librarian!Or contact me
directly david.litting_at_uts.edu.au / 95143390