Property investment advice articles & tips

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

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 really is common sense to get a...

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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 someone is interested in buying 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 are five critical steps that you need to go through when building a portfolio and trying to create some form of passive income for retirement or whate...

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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

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 against these schemes....

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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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What is Rentvesting?

So what is Rentvesting? Rentvesting has come about through the fact that housing is getting more and more difficult to buy closer into the city. So we are actually seeing values in those city areas starting to increase beyond what say the average household can buy. Yet that average household still wants to have all the conveniences and lifestyle d...

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Why you should be Nervous when Investing in Apartments

I always find it a really interesting topic when someone says do apartments make for a good investment or not? My dad is born in 1939 so he's a pre-Baby Boomer, my mom is born in 1948 so she's a Baby Boomer, I'm 1975 so Generation X and my wife is 1980 so she's typically on the cusp of Generation Y. So over the dinner table, we actually have a real...

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What’s FOMO and why should you avoid it?

FOMO is very much the story of a significant portion of the Australian property investment market right now - especially in Sydney - but unfortunately for those investors who fall victim to it, it could all end in tears…. So what is FOMO then? Wikipedia defines the Fear Of Missing Out as “a pervasive apprehension that others might be having rew...

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