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GUIDE TO LIBRARY [email protected]
95143390
LIBRARY WEBSITEWWW.LIB.UTS.EDU.AU
Property Cash Flow and Analysis
What We’ll 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
The Assignment
Choose a property – possibly your own home – and develop a cash flow model to determine investment worthiness
What you’ll 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
Property Economics Study Guide – groups many of the resources you’ll need
study guides/built environment/property economics/statistics
Local Area Information
To assist you in making your cash flow model you’ll 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.
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
You will need to create a unique logon once in the GMID site
Rent and SalesReports
Are available from the NSW Government Department of Housing website – www.housing.nsw.gov.au
It’s also a link from the Property Economics Study Guide
Choose rent and sales report from quick linksThe reports chart the change in land costs
Domain Property Data : (for land and property information by area)(available by this title in the library catalogue)
Residential Property Prospects
• This is a hardcopy service, available in the Closed Reserve Section of UTS library: call number: 333.3370994 RESI. It’s 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!
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
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
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
The Library Catalogue
A good place to search for books on property development is with the library catalogue.Top right is a bit of a search for the keywords ‘property cash flow analysis’
If a book is being borrowed press the
button ( button
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 databasesLists of databases good for Property studies
are included in the Property Economics study guide or in the ‘find databases’ page..
Google Scholar = Many databases
Google Scholar allows you to search many databases at once, however it lacks some of the functionality of a specialist database.
Using the ‘find database’ page to locate Google Scholar allows you to link UTS library subscriptions with information you can find via Google...
Referencing
Information on how to reference according to the ‘Harvard Referencing Style’ is available from the Referencing and Writing Guide, which is a link from the left side of the library homepage...
Referencing Continued
The Harvard Guide Will Show you worked examples of how to reference various type of information: books, journals, websites, etc. It will also provide a background to referencing generally...
Referencing Software
There are two types of referencing software made available via the Referencing guide: Refworks and Endnote. Both do the same sort of task – finding, storing and placing references into your assignments. We run classes in how to use them...
Need Help? Ask – a – librarian!Or contact me directly – [email protected] / 95143390