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Today, you've got infrastructure, investment, education hubs and population growth that are helping support the local housing market.

One of the things that we have noticed over the last few days, I don't know if this shows up in Ballarat, but we have a lot more Americans that are listening to the Aussie Property Podcast, probably with good reason.

They're starting to think, is it time to actually make a move?

They're listening.

This is the interesting thing, Dominic.

Anybody listening in the US this morning, they've never heard of Ballarat, so you're getting in nice and early here.

Yeah, because you've already got the interstaters.

They're also coming from expats that are outside of Australia.

Dominic, how hot is that at the moment with your inquiries, those people outside of Australia?

european there's a really big croatian community in ballarat hungarian so probably more european but yeah like i said bring on the us yes let's bring on the us into ballarat this morning all right guys thank you for that enjoy your tuesday thanks for giving us a little bit of a breakdown on what is happening in 2026 in the ballarat market and thanks for coming on to the real estate breakfast appreciate it thanks for having us thank you greg

By using your superannuation for the deposit, you were able to put down a much larger upfront payment and keep the overall mortgage smaller.

So just talk through all of that.

The rules, as I mentioned, the home must be treated purely as an investment.

Given the housing problems that we are suffering, that rule needs to change.

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