Saving for Your Child’s Education

Saving for Your Child’s Education

As parents, you want the best for your children – and, with the growing reluctance of grown children to fly the nest, you might want to start planning to avoid the prospect of having your 35-year-old offspring cramping your retirement by still living at home....
What a Pest

What a Pest

Buying a new home can be a cash-consuming exercise, before you even get down to the business of making an offer or bidding at auction. By the time you get to auction day, you really need to have all your due diligence ducks in a row. A few hundred dollars spent on...
Going with the Cash Flow

Going with the Cash Flow

Do you know how much you will earn this month? And more importantly what your expenses are? Two simple questions, but if you can’t come up with a rough answer off the top of your head, you’re making a rookie financial mistake. This means you’re not...
How to Buy Your First Investment Property?

How to Buy Your First Investment Property?

Australia’s housing market has turned a corner: the book phase is over, activity has cooled and prices have fallen. The unsustainable price rises of recent years have been replaced by a sense of balance, and speculators are looking elsewhere to make a...
Depreciation Schedule

Depreciation Schedule

  We have all heard the old adage that you need to speculate to accumulate… but when it comes to investing in property, if you want to maximise your returns, you also need to depreciate. If you are renting out an investment property, you are able to deduct...