Ooof. I'm just catching up on this thread.
Seems like the party ended around mid February! Haven't you guys been enjoying the rebound now?
In the last three months I closed on a new property ($940,000 purchase price). Sold my share portfolio in January to pay the deposit for it. (Sold $462k, but only needed $380k for the deposit and stamp duty costs). Took out a loan for $600k and fixed at 2.59% interest.
In the interim, bought $25k of shares and sold for $28.5k, and made $1500 interest on a P2P lending platform. Probably shouldn't have sold that little parcel of shares.
Have subsequently bought back $100k of shares, basically market timed our index (sold at $88 in Jan, bought back in part at $70). I'm happy with that, and going to invest excess cash now in more shares, as long as it's under $88 I'm coming out well in front (still at $73 today).
My NW is still up for the year. I've gone from $1.32m to just over $1.40m.
On we go towards $2m