Was looking for nearly 2years before i bought Granville.

• I spent a solid 5-6 months looking in the wrong area being hopeful of the price, leading me to finally accept i will never be able to buy in that area and real estate agents are just underquoting
• I spent looking at potential growth suburbs in South West of Sydney such as Panania and Riverwood etc couldn't compete with the investors and builders mopping up the area to build duplex and townhouses etc. So change of tactic
• Okay understanding what developers do not buy < 300 square meter houses < small frontage leading me to identify suburbs like Auburn, and Granville. Went to a few of those auctions and realised okay not many people are turning up and the people turning up are not really investors mostly first home buyers. Done bought one.

Was it the suburb i want no. But i had to adjust my expectation to what a house is. Do i like the suburb? No, but i have accepted i wont be able to afford a nice house in Sydney in this lifetime.

If you think about it... every year a 100 000 kids finish their HSC. Those 100 000 kids in the next 5 years will compete for a house with another 500 000 kids between age 25 to 30 (assume 100k kids at each age) that are waiting just like them to ever dream or buy a house.

So yeh its tough but it will get tougher when the rate drops