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What is Negative Gearing and Why It’s NOT a Strategy?

This video is part of our Negative Gearing video series. You're currently watching Video 1. Video 2: Labor's Negative Gearing Policy Blunders (Part 1) - Watch here Video 3: Labor's Negative Gearing Policy Blunders (Part 2) - Watch here Transcript: Hello, Ben Kingsley here. There's a lot of discussion and debate around property at the moment and N...

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Why is it So Hard to Build a Passive Income?

Today I want to talk about one of the reasons why I think it's a little bit difficult to build a passive income for a lot of people. For me, it's about setting the goal in the first place. I've got a virtual mentor, Michael Hyatt, who talks about how to set goals. He talks about goals being in either the comfort zone, the discomfort zone, or th...

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INFRASTRUCTURE: Which is the most important to grow property prices?

In this how-to session I want to talk about infrastructure. But, more importantly, I want to talk about the essential ingredient you need in infrastructure that is going to grow property prices not only for the short term but for the long sustainable term. Now you might be thinking, “That's an easy one! Surely it's got to be transportation… an...

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7 Common Questions Property Investors Ask

[This event has now ended but there will be future events coming up and we'd love to hear from you! Join our Newsletter or connect with us on Facebook to stay in touch.]   BRYCE: Hey Ben, we're really excited about the upcoming webinar that we have on the Seven Deadly Sins when it comes to Building a Property Portfolio and we want to tal...

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Get Rid of The A.E.W.D Mindset

In this How To session I want to explore A.E.W.D. Now, you might be thinking what is that?  Well, I will get there in a minute; but first, I want to tell a story around this. Recently, I've been on holidays — it’s been Christmas and New Year — and obviously around Christmas time you get to spend a lot of time with extended family and frien...

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Have you taken this critical step to reducing your debt?

Hi, Ben Kingsley here. I hope you've had a great Christmas and a fabulous new year. But now we've got to pay for that joy, don't we? Now, if we've put too much of that on our credit card then, ultimately, we have to be paying off that credit card. Did you know that in Australia, credit card debt sits at around $33 billion! So we do have a problem...

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Three Cheap Cosmetic Renovations You Can Consider

In this How-To Session, we're focusing on getting the best bang for buck from the cheapest cosmetic renovation you can do on property! The reason we're going to do those renovations could be because we want to get a better valuation; it could be that we want to get a better rental yield from new tenants coming in; or it could be that we may be sel...

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The Three Hidden Mistakes That Property Investors Often Make

Today I want to talk about three hidden mistakes that property investors often make. The first one is wanting to settle on a Friday. This comes from the fact that when we're buying our own home if we settle on a Friday, we get the keys and we move in over the weekend. But the challenge is that 20% of settlements don't settle on the due date because...

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How to Protect your Portfolio from the Inevitable Storms?

Today what I want to talk about is How do you protect your portfolio from the inevitable storms that you will face if you want to play this game for the long term? We've just had a world record here in Australia—we've had over 25 years without a “technical” recession, which means that no other developed economy in the world has actually done...

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Sky Business News – Your Money Your Call (February 2017)

Ben Kingsley is welcomed back on SKY Business News Channel, Your Money Your Call (YMYC). With Margaret Lomas away, Lisa Montgomery steers tonight’s discussion as Ben and Brad Beer talk Property Investment and how to make your investment work for you. Live from the studio, they answer a handful of emails and calls of interest, discussing: What ...

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Is Your Property Portfolio Built On Sand or Stone?

Isn't it interesting to see the celebrations people have at New Year's Eve when we're seeing out the old year and welcoming in the new one? We tend to flock to iconic buildings and iconic bridges all around the world to capture the moment when the clock strikes midnight. If you think about Australia, everyone likes to flock to the Sydney Harbour Br...

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SKY News – Apartment purchases lower among investors

The 2016 Property Investor Sentiment Survey by PIPA was recently released and has shed light on what Australian property investors think about the market. One of the findings has indicated that property investors are less interested in investing in apartments with only 10% looking at this year compared to a 15% in previous year. Ben Kingsley joins...

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Defence: What is that?

What I want to have a quick chat about today is something a lot of property investors haven’t got time or the headspace to think about. And that is their position of defence. We talk about it in our business model: ABCD. The asset selection (A), the borrowing power (B), the cash flow management (C) and the defence (D). But let’s be honest: ...

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