Moomin Valley

So I wore this shirt to lunch with a couple of friends today: After the first friend left, I was saying how I hated buying clothes (because ...

  Based on recent sales at our development of 96 "townhouses" and the neighboring development built by the same developer, I estim...

I just got scammed for AUD 2,300. I got an email from my webhosting company saying that my card had expired and I needed to renew. Except it...

One of Moominmama's friends (from undergrad days in the world's most populous country) told her they have bought a house in one of t...

I read in the Australian Financial Review that having an offset facility usually means that the mortgage interest rate that you are paying ...

Following the recent record gain on a townhouse , a freestanding house sold in our development last Thursday but the price hasn't been d...

 This townhouse sold for AUD 835k: That is a 101% gain on its original 2008 sale price, the largest gain to date in our development. This i...

  After a few recent sales in the neighboring development , finally two houses were listed in ours. One was auctioned on Saturday. I went to...

This morning I got a text from a real estate agent offering to send me an updated appraisal of our house's value because "prices ar...

This graph shows the increase as a fraction of the original when new sales price in two neighboring developments in our city since the begin...

  In the last couple of years I have used the Corelogic house price indices to update the value of our house. But this price has gotten more...

This month we "inverted" our mortgage , paying off the mortgage and then redrawing it for investment purposes. As a result the mo...

There was an auction today for the house next door to us. It is almost identical though it is in better condition inside (our house will ...

I completed the transfer of money into our brokerage accounts from the " mortgage inversion" .  That completes a major step in our...

Just enter the amount, press the button, and: Now to transfer the money to investment. This is how I account for this re-structure: ...

It won't be for long !

We switched from short one contract of Bitcoin to long two this morning, booking a USD 30 loss on the short trade. We are long two as the pe...

I first wrote about this four years ago . I realized today that I could actually pull this off next month. At this point, I have close to...

I got an email today from the city planning office that the development in our neighbourhood that I had objected to was refused planning ...

A relatively new investment concept is crowdfunding real estate investments. The idea is that an individual could directly invest small a...