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The Secret of Our Success

Have you always wondered what secret strategies have made successful property investors so rich? How did these investors start their property portfolio? Did they have a lot a money to begin with? How did they manage to juggle their full time job and the task of managing their investment properties? Well, wonder no more. Australian Property Investor...

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Should You Be A Borderless Investor?

So I guess the question for property investors are, should you be a borderless investor and what does that actually mean? More than ever, I'm talking to clients who are keen to not invest in their own backyard and actually look into other states for opportunities to buy because one of the biggest question that I'm always asked, in my role in the sh...

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Who Do You Take Your Advice From? | Free vs Fee

So the question is, who do you take your advice from when you are buying an investment property? There's really two side of the equation in this industry; someone who is prepared to give you the information for free versus someone like a Buyers Agent who is prepared to charge you a fee for service but the difference is this person who is giving you...

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Go for the Cash Cows

Rental property is a great source of passive income as long as you can be patient. This type of properties are commonly known as cash cows and usually fits property investors with a yield strategy. In the March 2015 Issue of Money Magazine, Bryce Holdaway was asked to explain further about this investment strategy. Here's a snippet of the article: ...

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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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Investing Interstate

>> Play Audio here   In this episode of Real Estate Talk, Kevin Turner interviews Bryce Holdaway and ask him about investing interstate. What is the trend in the property market now and should we invest in our own backyard where we are more comfortable or board a plane and invest in a new area? Here a snippet of the podcast: Kevin...

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The Market in 2015

>> Play Audio here   In this episode of Real Estate Talk, Kevin Turner interviews Bryce Holdaway and ask him what is going to happen to the Australian Property Market in 2015. Bryce says there are some clear signals about how buoyant the market will be this year and he tells us about some markets that he believes will show good growt...

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Do Holiday Homes make Good Investments?

I’m often asked the question on whether or not Holiday homes make for great investments and generally speaking, from what I’ve seen, it doesn’t and largely it comes down to the fact that the time when you want to rent it out to get the maximum money from is actually the time when you want to spend the time in there with your family. So that...

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RBA Interest Rate Cut

Anchor: For the first time in 18 months, RBA has reduced the cash rate by 25 basis points. That's a quarter of a percent for you and I. The move was design to lower the exchange rate and offset declines in key commodity prices. However many are wondering how the 2015 Australian Property Market will react. Bryce Holdaway is a partner in Empower W...

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Buyers’ Agent Brief

Armed with an upwardly mobile couple's investment goals, three local experts set about finding the perfect strategy for kicking off their portfolio. In the January 2015 issue of Australian Property Investor Magazine (API), they introduced a new series called 'Buyers's Agent Brief'. Kieran Clair presented Bryce Holdaway with a hypothetical client...

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Making Room to Grow

Some property investors are quite lucky when it comes to their investing journey. They met the right people, got the right advice and invested in the right property at the right time. However, this article on API Magazine is not about those type of investors. It's about investors who received dodgy advice from certain advisors and end up with a lem...

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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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10 Experts share their biggest property lessons from 2014

>> Play Audio Here   With 2014 coming to an end, this will be a good time to recollect and find what lessons that we can take out from the Australian Property Market this year that will help us to be better at investing in property for the coming one. In this episode of Real Estate Talk, Kevin Turner interviews Bryce and 9 other prop...

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