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 The unsustainable price rises of recent years have been replaced by a sense of balance, and speculators are looking elsewhere to make a...
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 the...
We speak to potential investors on a daily basis, who are keen to build their personal wealth by investing in property. They tend to fall into 2 categories. 1. Currently Renting and can not Afford to Buy Where they Live. Those currently renting typically are looking...
Nobody gets to the top on their own: Don Bradman had his Invincibles; Ed Hilary had Sherpa Tenzing and Donald Trump had… Vladimir Putin (allegedly!). Life is too complicated to go it alone, especially in the world of finance. If you are looking to grow your...
Our big banks source between 30-40% of the money they lend from overseas sources, and over the past year the cost of this funding has risen. Around the world the flood of cheap money that followed in the wake of the Global Financial Crisis in an attempt to stimulate...
CoreLogic RP Data’s recent New Settlement Risk Report highlighted the flood of new apartments due to settle in the next two years in Sydney (81,696), Melbourne (80,503) and Brisbane (44,511), warning “Mortgage lenders have recently tightened their lending criteria;...
