Property investment advice articles & tips

Detecting a turning market

>> Play Audio here   In this episode of Real Estate Talk, Kevin Turner interviews Ben Kingsley and ask him about the signs he looks for to detect a turning market. Here's the transcript:   Kevin:  One of the things I find that a lot of investors do is spend a lot of time trying to pick the market – that is, trying to...

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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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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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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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A Graceful Exit

You might not like to think about the end game, but when it comes to property investing, an exit strategy is a must. In this March 2015 issue of Australian Property Investor (API) Magazine, Ben Kingsley was asked to share his thoughts about how to exit the property game gracefully. Here's a snippet of the article: "The whole point of investing i...

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Is Property in Australia Affordable?

There's a lot of hype around the Australian Property Market and whether or not we are in a price bubble. Now the reality is, when we see low interest rates, what it means is it increases our ability to afford property. We got to understand the psychology behind buying property in Australia, just as in buying properties in most countries where we se...

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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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Negative Gearing vs Positive Gearing | Which is Better?

Hello, Ben Kingsley here and today I want to talk about Negative Gearing vs Positive Gearing. Now the difference between the two is an income outcome which basically means that with negative gearing properties, we actually have to put some of our surplus cash into supporting the investment as opposed to positive gearing where we actually get some ...

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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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