Buyers agents articles & tips

Renovating does not equal Riches

How exciting it is to see someone who has actually done a renovation project and they've made hundreds and thousands of dollars in it. You might think that it is easy to, I guess, replace the yield income by doing a renovation project. We've all probably heard some stories and we've seen the television shows with the really great outcomes and of co...

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One on One with Bryce Holdaway – May 2015

In this episode of Look at Property Season 9, Bryce Holdaway, Partner and Buyers Agent of Empower Wealth joins Julie McBeth in the discussion around the Property Market in Australia and how it is more important than ever to be a borderless investor especially if you are in Sydney. As we all know, the property value in Sydney at the moment is beyond...

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Residential Property Investment: The Overlooked Wealth Management Tool

Whether you are exploring ways to grow your wealth for the first time, or whether you are already well on your way, it is essential to have a plan that details what you want to achieve, which investments you are going for and how you are going to achieve your goals. With investments such as shares, FOREX, bonds, where the market is live, there is a...

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A Home Is Not Just a Home: The Process of Buying a Home with an Investor’s Mindset (Part 1)

Buying a home is one of the most important financial decisions you’ll make in your lifetime. Some people live in the same property for the entire life and build a lifetime of memories in there while others tend to move from one property to another depending on their life circumstances ie: an expanding family or a change in career. Whichever group...

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A Home Is Not Just a Home: The Process of Buying a Home with an Investor’s Mindset (Part 2) 

>> Click here to read Part 1 Firstly, why Invest Your Money in Property? Before we move forward, we need to look into investors' mindset and understand why they choose to invest in property? Property investment is one of the places Australians turn to when looking for ways to grow their portfolios because of numerous benefits such as low vola...

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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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Wanted: First Aussie Home

This globetrotting couple have finally put down roots here and are now searching for the Great Australian Dream - A home to call their own. In the March 2015 issue of Australian Property Investor Magazine (API), Ben Kingsley was asked to provide his professional advice to this couple who are looking to settle down in Australia by buying their Firs...

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The Four Ways a Property Investor Will Pay

It’s always interesting the psychology of the property investor, when I’m chatting to them about 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. The first way is to pay through buying the wrong assets, and that is not an egotistical statement. That’s actu...

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How to negotiate a great property deal out there?

Buying a property in a buyer’s market is a lot easier than buying in a seller’s market. With abundant properties, slow-moving sales, and low prices, you can snag a good deal even with rusty negotiation skills. Unfortunately, the Australian property market is not currently a buyer’s paradise. Across the country, prices have been steadily risin...

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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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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 b...

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New to Property Investment? Here’s What You Need to Know

Have you always been interested in property investment? You may have watched television shows about it or heard about it from your mates at barbeque or dinner party last weekend. After much consideration, you may have officially decided to make it your business venture too. While many investors have great success with the properties that they have ...

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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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