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Four Ways an Investor will Pay

It’s always interesting the psychology of property investor when I’m chatting to them the idea of if they are to pay for advice or whether they get the advice for free. Cause in my view, you are going to pay in four ways. First way is to pay through buying the wrong assets, and that is not an egotistical statement. That’s actually from exp...

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Property Investment Doesn’t Have To Be Hard: Read These Six Tips

In today’s current economic environment, building wealth and saving for a comfortable retirement has become more and more difficult. Simply saving a portion of your income or relying on a pension was never adequate to fund a person’s retirement in Australia and so, the Superannuation system was introduced by the Keating Labor government. Now, h...

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Tips for Buying at Auction – Part 4

Auction Tip No.5 Now my fifth tip is if you're actually a bit fearful or have some anxiety around the auction process, why not engage the services of a professional buyers agent? Because Buyers Agents are generally in the field all week, looking at properties and have attended and bid at hundreds and hundreds of auctions. So you can actually tap in...

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Three Biggest Mistakes Aspiring Investors make

As Buyer Agent, we are often asked to talk about biggest mistakes investors make. The most significant mistake however is not always the obvious one. People associate property investment mistakes with poorly chosen assets in areas which don’t exhibit capital growth, or financial mistakes (like paying too much), or dodgy buildings… or better sti...

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Buyer Impatience Drives Property Price Growth

I recall way back when I was studying there were future projections about  how the rapid advances with computers were forecasted to deliver us so much more leisure time in the future,  because they were going to increase our productivity and efficiencies at work, meaning we would get the work done quicker then head home and enjoy life. How wro...

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Reducing the ‘Fear Factor’ in property investing

Without a doubt, one of the biggest reasons people hold back from investing in property is fear of risk. This fear shows up in many different ways, from well thought out objections to procrastination itself. There are books on the shelves, magazines on the racks, shows about investing and presenters advertising the merits of investing. There are...

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