Property investment advice articles & tips

Is Negative Gearing good or bad?

With so much debate right now about negative gearing it's really important to try and provide some balance. Is it a good thing or is it a bad thing? So I'm going to come up with five reasons why I think it's a positive thing for the economy and of course I've got to declare my self-interest here because I am a property investor myself. I have a bus...

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Seven habits of highly effective property investors

I've always been a really avid reader of positive mental attitude books and one of my favorites is the Stephen Covey classic, seven habits of highly effective people and there are seven really cool habits that you can apply into your life if you really want to be the cream of your field, your life and your industry. So I thought it will be really f...

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2016 Property Outlook (Part 4) | Northern Territory, Western Australia and Tasmania

Here are the other parts of the 2016 Property Outlook: Part 1: Sydney & Regional NSW Part 2: Melbourne & Regional VIC Part 3: Queensland, Australian Capital Territory and South Australia Part 4: Northern Territory, Western Australia and Tasmania Transcript: Bryce Holdaway: I guess that leaves us with the three states that are probabl...

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2016 Property Outlook (Part 3) | Queensland, Australian Capital Territory and South Australia

Here are the other parts of the 2016 Property Outlook: Part 1: Sydney & Regional NSW Part 2: Melbourne & Regional VIC Part 3: Queensland, Australian Capital Territory and South Australia Part 4: Northern Territory, Western Australia and Tasmania Transcript: Ben Kingsley: Today as we move around the markets, we’re in this sort of ma...

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2016 Property Outlook (Part 2) | Melbourne & Regional VIC

Here are the other parts of the 2016 Property Outlook: Part 1: Sydney & Regional NSW Part 2: Melbourne & Regional VIC Part 3: Queensland, Australian Capital Territory and South Australia Part 4: Northern Territory, Western Australia and Tasmania Transcript: Bryce Holdaway: So probably moving on to the next biggest economy, which is M...

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2016 Property Outlook (Part 1) | Sydney & Regional NSW

Here are the other parts of the 2016 Property Outlook: Part 1: Sydney & Regional NSW Part 2: Melbourne & Regional VIC Part 3: Queensland, Australian Capital Territory and South Australia Part 4: Northern Territory, Western Australia and Tasmania Transcript: Bryce Holdaway: All right folks. It’s that time of the year where we sort o...

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Happy New Year from the Empower Wealth Team!

Thank you for a great year! From all of us here at Empower Wealth we'd like to thank you for your continued support over the past year and we wish you great start to 2016! 2015 has been an amazing year for us. Let’s see what we’ve done this year: We’ve helped more clients in achieving their financial goals We launched our Location Analy...

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Sky Business News – Your Money Your Call (December 2015)

In this SKY Business News Channel, Your Money Your Call (YMYC) on 21st of December 2015, Ben Kingsley joins Margaret Lomas and Michael Tey from Block Strata to discuss what's making news in the property market and more. This time, they answered a number of emails and calls from viewers and some of the topics are: What are the top issues that fac...

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So you’ve bought the property… What’s Next? (Part 1)

What I find is when people are buying an investment property, they use a lot of mental fuel in the decision to actually, will I or won't I buy one. And I kind of think of it like.. Do you know when a plane is on the tarmac and it's just about to take off. That moment when it leaves the tarmac and gets up to say 30,000 feet before it levels off. Tha...

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Who’s more important: Buyers Agent or Mortgage Broker?

So, it is always interesting when it comes to investing in property, who is actually more important? Is it the Buyers Agent or Mortgage Broker?? And of course, being a Buyers Agent, you expect me to say that Buyers Agents are so important that they couldn't be possibly outrank by the Mortgage Broker but I think people will be surprised by my answer...

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3 questions to ask yourself when setting up an SMSF

So what are the three initial considerations you need to consider when setting up a Self Managed Super Fund or SMSF? The first consideration is who's actually making the recommendation to you? Is it your mortgage broker, is it a real estate agent, is it a property spruiker or is it a buyers agent? All these people are legally not allowed to recomm...

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Which is more important | Property, Location or ….?

Look, it's always interesting when someone is making a decision on investing in property but how do they actually decide on which one makes for a great investment for their portfolio? For me, I think they got the focus in the wrong area. I think the focus on the property first where else I think there are a couple of other things that the need focu...

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Old or new, it’s up to you

Each housing type has its financial pros and cons and will attract its particular group of tenants. In this issue of Money Magazine, Ben Kingsley writes about whether you should buy old or new property. Here's a snippet of this article: "Whether you are drawn to heritage charm or slick modern edges, there are no right or wrong options when it come...

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