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In the Hot Seat | Ben Kingsley

In the November 2014 issue, Australian Property Investor Magazine (API Magazine) puts Ben Kingsley in the Hot Seat and chat to him about how Property Investment Professionals of Australia (PIPA) can better protect and educate the stakeholders in the currently unregulated property investment industry. Here's a snippet of the interview: "What does P...

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What do you Look for in a Buyers Advocate?

If you're looking to work with a Buyers Advocate, you need to ask the question: What am I looking for in my Buyers Advocate/Buyers Agent? Well, the first question is coming back at you and that is why are you actually buying? If you're buying for owner occupier purposes, then a local buyers agent who knows their city, or their area within the ci...

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7 Things to Consider when Securing Your New Home/Investment Property Loan

Whether it’s your first time or tenth home or investment purchase, choosing a lender in a competitive market and getting a loan approved by a bank or lender is a laborious task. There are a lot of requirements to satisfy, applications to fill out and paperwork to get it order, so it can seem as if you will never get it all together and you are...

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Scrapping negative gearing ‘unlikely’

With the recent movement in the Australian Property Market and increase in property investment activities, the RBA had mentioned about the possibility of scrapping negative gearing. A decision such as this would have a massive impact not only on current property investors but for those who are looking to start their property investment journey as w...

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Sky Business Channel, Your Money Your Call (October 2014)

In the 20th of October session of SKY Business News Channel, Your Money Your Call, Ben Kingsley joins Margaret Lomas and Paul Rickard from Switzer to discuss different aspects of property across Australia. This time, they answered a number of emails and calls from viewers and some of the topics are: The new "Rate a Real Estate" website and what...

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Choosing your first Investment Property

Your first investment property can be the most difficult purchase you'll make - but what happens next? In the Cover Story of November 2014 Issue of Smart Property Investment (SPI) Magazine, Vivienne Kelly interviewed Ben Kingsley and other property experts for some property investment advice and investigates why so many investors stop at one proper...

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RBA Rate Decision – November 2014

Hello! On this Melbourne Cup Tuesday the race that stops the nation. Well it didn't stop the Reserve Bank board meeting today and again, as well predicted the Reserve Bank kept interest rates on hold at 2.5%. No big changes, no big surprises. The Reserve Bank is still concerned about the headwinds that the economy experiences in terms of its GDP nu...

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Preparing your House for Sale

A property investment strategy can be a buy and hold or sometimes, a buy, hold and sell. But for those who had gone through the selling path, you would know that most of the heavy lifting are done when preparing your house for sale. In this episode of Look At Property Season 8, Ben Kingsley offers his point of view as a Buyers Advocate and explains...

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Finding the perfect investment property

Finding the perfect investment property is the dream of each property investors out there. In this episode of Look At Property Season 8, Ben Kingsley started off with the first decision that a property investor has to make before finding that perfect investment property. They then moved on to other questions that an investor has to ask himself, whe...

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Mortgage Free at 23

Jack Stevens knows just how short life is. He was only a teenager when his father sadly passed away from cancer at the young and unfair age of just 58. It was a tough time in his life and all the more painful by the fact his father had been working hard to build a large property portfolio - one that would have provided him with a comfortable retire...

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What do the Banks look for when Lending Money?

So you are thinking about actually getting a loan? What is it that the Banks are going to be looking for in terms of being able to lend you money for a mortgage? There's actually 5Cs that allow them to do that. Character, Capacity, Conditions, Collateral and Common Sense. So let's explore all five! The first one is Character. When they are talki...

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10 Hours a Year

Effectively managing and monitoring your portfolio is hugely important if you want to be a successful investor - but it doesn't need to take as long as you think. In the September 2014 Issue of Smart Property Investment (SPI) Magazine, Ben Kingsley explains that most property investors who stick to the traditional 'buy and hold' strategy will test...

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Home Show Melbourne

In this episode of Look At Property Season 8, Ben Kingsley was interviewed by host, Des Dowling at the Melbourne Home Show to discuss on what to expect for the Property Spring Market. It is common belief that Spring is the most active season of the year but is it true this year? In this episode, Ben shares his opinion on the Property Investment - M...

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