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2016 Global Economy & Equity Outlook (Part 2) | Asian and European Economy

Here are the other parts of the 2016 Global Economy & Equity Outlook: Part 1: United States Economy Part 2: Asian and European Economy Part 3: Commodities Market Part 4: Australian Economy Ben Kingsley: Let’s go into China and more broadly speaking, Asia. Where do you see the Asian and obviously the biggest economy in that market? Seco...

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2016 Global Economy & Equity Outlook (Part 1) | United States Economy

Here are the other parts of the 2016 Global Economy & Equity Outlook: Part 1: United States Economy Part 2: Asian and European Economy Part 3: Commodities Market Part 4: Australian Economy Transcript: Ben Kingsley: So here we are for another year. I’m with my business partner Michael Savy who’s our chief investment officer. He heads ...

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2016 Mortgage and Lending Outlook

Here are the other parts of the 2016 Outlook: Australian Property Market 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 Global Economy and Equity Market Outlook Part 1: United States E...

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RBA Rate Decision – February 2016

Today the Governor and the Reserve Board met and they've kept interest rates on hold for the first meeting of 2016. Now that keeps the cash rate at 2% and we haven't seen the change in the cash rate since May last year. Now the big news of the turn of the calendar year was actually the share market and the jitters that we saw run through those mar...

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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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Private Sales vs Auctions

Have you ever wondered why some properties are sold privately and some others via auction? Who determines which method should be used to sell a property, and why? This time on 774 ABC Radio Melbourne, Ben Kingsley put on his buyer’s agent hat to talk about private sales vs auctions. In some states such as Victoria, we often see more auction act...

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2016 Predictions on the Australian Property Market

As we finished off 2015 and inevitably start with 2016, it is always common to think about what might happened in the year to come. This time on 774 ABC Radio Melbourne, Ben Kingsley was asked to provide some of his 2016 Predictions for the Australian Property Market. Whilst we are not psychic in any way, Ben does have a thorough understanding on h...

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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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Suburb growth and the changes that are happening across Australia

Ben Kingsley was asked to appear on this episode of 774 ABC Radio Melbourne. Today’s topic is about suburb growth and the changes that are happening across Australia, in particular the Melbourne area. As compared to 40 years ago where people value land size and they would live a bit further from the city, the current perception towards property ...

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Golden Rules in Property Investing and can we Break them?

In this episode of 774 ABC Radio Melbourne, Ben Kingsley appeared again on the new segment called, “All things real estate”. As mentioned before on Empower Wealth, investing in property is a science. There are a set process and formula that you should follow and a handful of filters that you need to apply when selecting an investment grade ass...

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