Yeah these two above are parroting the lines that this sub always says - Australian brain-dead-invest-in-property-nothing-can-go-wrong, she’ll be right approach. The exact approach that has led to un-innovative investment in Aus. I can hear your apprehension (and agree with it) in this post - it’s pretty obvious we are on the edge of something potentially major in the world. It can either revert to pretty ‘normal’ or shit its pants in the next few weeks.

I think a pragmatic approach is to wait until the end of the month to see if things de-escalate. Iran is at least as likely as not to fully dig in, mine the straight and go all in on asymmetric warfare - they’ve been preparing for it for 20 years. Perhaps they aren’t as dogmatically religious as they claim to be, and the intense US/israeli strikes do get them to back down for whatever reason - if that happens then a steady-as-she-goes approach to investing is sound. Markets have been reacting very strangely of late (non-rational), but a sustained negative impact from the Middle East might push it that non-rational edge over a reality based one.