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Marc Jocum

Reporter · AU

Indexed articles, last 90 days
8
Latest publication
Sep 15, 2026
Outlet visibility, for The Age
Top 10K sites
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Aug 4, 2026

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  1. Article · Sep 15, 2026 · Marc Jocum

    Our property obsession is about to face its toughest test yet (opens the original)

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    You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. Australians have spent a generation treating property as the closest thing to a guaranteed wealth machine. Buy a home, borrow as much as the bank will lend, hold it long enough, and let the rising value do the heavy lifting. For years, rising prices made that debt look like a cheat code for building wealth. But leverage cuts both ways. When prices rise, it can magnify gains. When they fall, it can

  2. Article · Sep 15, 2026 · Marc Jocum

    Our property obsession is about to face its toughest test yet (opens the original)

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    You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. Australians have spent a generation treating property as the closest thing to a guaranteed wealth machine. Buy a home, borrow as much as the bank will lend, hold it long enough, and let the rising value do the heavy lifting. For years, rising prices made that debt look like a cheat code for building wealth. But leverage cuts both ways. When prices rise, it can magnify gains. When they fall, it can

  3. Article · Sep 15, 2026 · Marc Jocum

    Our property obsession is about to face its toughest test yet (opens the original)

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    You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. Australians have spent a generation treating property as the closest thing to a guaranteed wealth machine. Buy a home, borrow as much as the bank will lend, hold it long enough, and let the rising value do the heavy lifting. For years, rising prices made that debt look like a cheat code for building wealth. But leverage cuts both ways. When prices rise, it can magnify gains. When they fall, it can

  4. Article · Sep 15, 2026 · Marc Jocum

    Our property obsession is about to face its toughest test yet (opens the original)

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    You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. Australians have spent a generation treating property as the closest thing to a guaranteed wealth machine. Buy a home, borrow as much as the bank will lend, hold it long enough, and let the rising value do the heavy lifting. For years, rising prices made that debt look like a cheat code for building wealth. But leverage cuts both ways. When prices rise, it can magnify gains. When they fall, it can

  5. Article · Aug 4, 2026 · Marc Jocum

    Why Australians can no longer count on property to make them rich (opens the original)

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    You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. For generations, Australians have shared a remarkably consistent blueprint for building wealth. Buy a home, build equity as prices rise and pay down the mortgage. Then, if you can, through more leverage or the equity built, buy another property. Repeat the process where possible. It has been a strategy reinforced by a powerful combination of structural tailwinds including a decades-long decline in

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