Property investment advice articles & tips

Merry Christmas & What A Year!

Good day, Ben Kingsley here with my annual Christmas message. I do this every year to our valued Empower Wealth clients and I just wanted to share an important message in what has been certainly one of the most interesting and challenging years that we will never forget. I want to focus in on a theme around having a plan because we did see when...

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MyWealth Portal | October 2020 Updates

Hi Ben Kingsley here to tell you about three exciting new features that we've built into the MyWealth Portal. Yes. The home of MoneySMARTS, and ultimately the home for you to organize your finances for the household and to make that money work harder for you. The first one I want to talk to you about is what we call MoneySTRETCH. If you hav...

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MyWealth Portal Tutorials: MoneySTRETCH

(Editor's Note: MyWealth Portal rebranded to Moorr in July 2022) Did you know? The average Australian household has just four and a half months of savings before their money runs out! That’s right, the average household has only $28,602 in savings, yet spends on average $74,301 a year (source: finder.com.au and ABS 2016 census data) I...

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RBA Cash Rate May 2020: The Three Critical Themes Unfolding In The Economy Right Now — And How They Impact Property Prices!

Today Governor Lowe and the Reserve board met, and they kept the cash rate on hold at 0.25%, so nothing to see there. What I wanted to highlight in regards to some of the activity from the RBA, we did get an update in the middle of May, in terms of how their stimulus package and monetary package they introduced in March is going to work. So, a ...

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‘Talking Up’ Property or Subject Matter Knowledge? – Property Prices in the Short Term

Over the past month the media has latched onto the headline grabbing stories linking the residential property market with the share market “crash” (their words not mine) that hit equity markets across the world due to the Covid-19 and the coronavirus pandemic. Mainstream media have hounded the ‘go to’ economists for their views on what ...

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How To Master The Pillars in Pandemic Times

This podcast was recorded at 10am on Thursday, 9th April 2020.You can listen to it on iTunes, Spotify or Google Podcast There are 10 Asset Selection Tips, 5 Borrowing Power Tips, 5 Cashflow Management Tips and 4 Defence Tips shared in this post. To help you identify them quickly, we've broken down to separate sections. Asset Selection ...

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Podcast Update: Landlord vs Tenants

NOTE: This Facebook LIVE was recorded at 4pm on Thursday, 2nd April 2020. It is an update released right after Episode 278 of our podcast, Coronavirus: Landlord vs Tenants. You can listen to this episode on iTunes, Spotify or TPC's Website. Bryce:   Hi there folks. Bryce Holdaway here and he is Ben Kingsley. We are the hosts of Th...

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COVID-19 & Share Market Analysis

Ben Kingsley:    Hello, Ben Kingsley here, Managing Director of Empower Wealth and I'm here with one of the partners of Empower Wealth advisory, Michael Savy, who's our Chief Investment Officer. So he looks after our Financial Planning team and also over a $100 million dollars of money that we have invested on behalf of our clients....

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UPDATE: Monetary & Fiscal Stimulus Program

Hi, Ben Kingsley here, Managing Director of Empower Wealth and also the co-host of The Property Couch Podcast. In this update I'm going to be talking about three clear areas. The first one is the RBA's Monetary Policy Stimulus Program. I'm also going to be talking about the Government's Stimulus Package, their second round. And finally I'm goin...

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Coronavirus & Property Outlook – Ep. 276 of The Property Couch Podcast

This podcast was recorded at 10am on Thursday, 19th March 2020.You can listen to it on iTunes, Spotify or Google Podcast. Welcome to The Property Couch where each week you get to listen to two of us strangely is leading experts, Bryce Holdaway, co-host of Location, Location, Location Australia on Foxtel's lifestyle channel, co-host of Escape fr...

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COVID-19 and What to Expect in Australia’s Property Market

Hi, Ben Kingsley here, Managing Director of Empower Wealth and I want to give you a quick update in terms of what's happening in the property market right now. Now we all know that we've been impacted currently and also our future movements will be impacted by the Coronavirus. But what's interesting is actually happening in the property market...

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Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from the Empower Wealth Team!

Hi everyone and Merry Christmas to all! In this year’s 2019 Christmas message, I wanted to focus on a theme around financial peace. I mean, the year has been challenging for some —a bit of economic uncertainty, a bit of job uncertainty — but the bright spot in the second half of the year has definitely been the property market. And that hopef...

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Defence: The Secret to Protect Your Portfolio and Prevent The Worst From Ever Happening

Hi, Ben Kingsley here. In our best-selling book The Armchair Guide To Property Investing - How to retire in $2,000 a week we talk about the Property Investment Formula. This includes Asset Selection, Borrowing Power, Cash Flow Management and Defence. In this how-to video I'm going to take a deeper dive into Defence. When you think about defence,...

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