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Is Negative Gearing good or bad?

With so much debate right now about negative gearing it's really important to try and provide some balance. Is it a good thing or is it a bad thing? So I'm going to come up with five reasons why I think it's a positive thing for the economy and of course I've got to declare my self-interest here because I am a property investor myself. I have a bus...

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Seven habits of highly effective property investors

I've always been a really avid reader of positive mental attitude books and one of my favorites is the Stephen Covey classic, seven habits of highly effective people and there are seven really cool habits that you can apply into your life if you really want to be the cream of your field, your life and your industry. So I thought it will be really f...

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So you’ve bought the property… What’s Next? (Part 2)

The next step is, "Well, ok, once I've settled, the next biggest anxiety I'm going to have is whether or not I'm going to get a tenant." So you really need to start thinking about property managers and interviewing a range of property managers. Ask them some key questions because they are going to be in charge of looking after your asset. For me, t...

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So you’ve bought the property… What’s Next? (Part 1)

What I find is when people are buying an investment property, they use a lot of mental fuel in the decision to actually, will I or won't I buy one. And I kind of think of it like.. Do you know when a plane is on the tarmac and it's just about to take off. That moment when it leaves the tarmac and gets up to say 30,000 feet before it levels off. Tha...

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Who’s more important: Buyers Agent or Mortgage Broker?

So, it is always interesting when it comes to investing in property, who is actually more important? Is it the Buyers Agent or Mortgage Broker?? And of course, being a Buyers Agent, you expect me to say that Buyers Agents are so important that they couldn't be possibly outrank by the Mortgage Broker but I think people will be surprised by my answer...

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Which is more important | Property, Location or ….?

Look, it's always interesting when someone is making a decision on investing in property but how do they actually decide on which one makes for a great investment for their portfolio? For me, I think they got the focus in the wrong area. I think the focus on the property first where else I think there are a couple of other things that the need focu...

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Off Market Opportunities

If you are active in the property industry, chances are you would have heard about this thing called "off market opportunities". To some, this almost seems like a VIP only access and exclusive to a selected few. In this issue of Australian Property Investor (API) Magazine, Bryce Holdaway was asked to share his opinion as a Buyers Agent and to help ...

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How to Buy an Interstate Property

I'm always a really strong advocate that property investors should be buying outside of their own backyard if their city or their state isn't in the right part of the property cycle right now. So that's what we call a Borderless Investor but it's important that people don't just flippantly buy a property interstate because there are lots of things ...

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Seven Mistakes Property Investors Make

Look, I'm in this privileged position where I get to see a lot of property investors and the decisions that they made, not only in the last couple of years but quite often over a period of many many years. It's not until you get the opportunity to look backwards and see the decisions that people make to see where you can fine tune and make some dif...

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Earn $55k a year in rental income

Retiring on a passive income from a well-designed property portfolio sounds like the dream end to a lifetime of hard work. And you don't have to be a millionaire to make it come true. In this issue of Money Magazine, Bryce Holdaway is asked to demonstrate how some forward planning and the use of smart strategies show how three typical Australian ho...

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Case study: How to make $140,000 loss in 10 years

I had this interesting conversation with someone on the phone this week where they were tossing up whether or not they could justify the expense of getting a buyers agent to be involved rather than just doing it themselves. So I unpack that conversation a little bit and the good news is they were a property investor already which is great. Let's be...

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My Big Fat Property Mistake

If you ask any property investors out there if they've made any mistakes along the way, the answer would most probably be yes. It doesn't matter if you've invested for a long time, you would make some property mistake along the way. That is the way most investors learn and hopefully, those mistakes aren't irreversible. In this issue of Australian P...

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What are the Worst Performing properties in a Market Correction

Look with property being so popular, it is the great Australian barbeque topic right now. Everyone wanted to jump on board with what I call FOMO or the Fear Of Missing Out. I think it is really important that people make great decisions around asset selection now cause there are two types of property that I think are really vulnerable when the mark...

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