Property investment advice articles & tips

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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City Fringe: Is it Real Gold or Fool’s Gold?

City fringe property; is it property investment gold or is it fool's gold? It's an interesting question because often in property investment research, we measure the performance of a suburb by its median price point and this is an important message for people who are buying hot property reports or new hotspot reports and those type of things becaus...

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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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Why do you need a Property Wealth Plan?

So you're thinking about investing in property. Well, let me share with you the importance of planning and getting it right in the first time. I'm going to use this example. Take a look at this beautiful home, lovely floor plan as well isn't it? Well, the reality is, that house couldn't have been achieve and that outcome couldn't have been achie...

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How do you make a $200,000 mistake in Property?

So how do you make a $200,000 mistake in investing in property? Well, its quite easy really if you don't do the right preparation and the right planning work. Let's look at this example: Let's say you have a $500,000 property and because you've done your homework and you've done your numbers, you think that's all you can afford. But in reality, if...

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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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Five ways to boost a property value

>> Play Audio here In this episode of Real Estate Talk, Ben is once again invited on the show to talk about five ways to boost a property value. Ben will be sharing his personal experience and from his point of view as a Qualified Property Investment Advisor. To start off, the most obvious way is a repaint job. It's easy, cheap and it rea...

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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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What’s the most Neglected step by most Property Investors

Whenever some is interested to buy an investment property, I'm often intrigued at how they kind of see it as an event rather than a process. Now, I've talked about it a lot where I think there is 5 Critical steps that you need to go through when building a portfolio and try to create some form of passive income for retirement or whatever sort of fi...

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Why is a Property Valuation so Important?

So you're ready to make your next step on the property ladder. You might have one property or you might have an owner occupier home and were looking to release equity out. Or you might have a portfolio of properties already and is looking to potentially release that equity. Enter the valuer, they are the most important person in the conversation be...

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Property spruikers named and shamed

>> Play Audio here   More than 86 property spruikers have been nabbed in a coordinated effort to stop promoters duping investors with unfair rent-to-buy schemes and “free” investment seminars. In this episode of Real Estate Talk, Kevin Turner talks to Ben Kingsley about the findings, the culprits and how you can protect yourself ...

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Fat Profits

These investors share their strategies to build fast equity in their million-dollar-plus portfolios so you can do it, too. In this issue of Australian Property Investor (API) Magazine, Ben Kingsley and other property experts shares some of their property investment strategies and how fat profits can be made. Ben is also discussing some of his conce...

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