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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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RBA Rate Decision – September 2015

Hello Ben Kingsley here. Thanks for watching this RBA video announcement. As you can obviously pick up, I'm not in the office as I usually am at the moment. I'm currently on a family holiday up in tropical North Queensland. What an interesting time to take a holiday. In fact the last time, as I was saying it to my wife, that I took a holiday lik...

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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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Home Sweet Home

The prospect of buying a first home in today's market can be daunting - especially given high prices and competition for desirable properties. In this issue of Bride to Be Magazine, Ben Kingsley was asked to provide his opinions on what to consider before starting your search. Here's a snippet of the article: "It's no secret that homes are more ...

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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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Australia’s Housing Boom

Melbourne's property prices have surged in the past month, pushing ahead of Sydney in the last quarter. The property market in Australia's two biggest cities are currently dominated by investors who are currently making up to 60% of buyers. What had cause this housing boom in both cities and is it a good time to buy now considering the increasing p...

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The Today Show – Hot Property

With the housing boom in Sydney and Melbourne at the moment, where else can you buy to get your foot in the property door? This time on Today Show, Bryce Holdaway was asked to provide some advice and tips on how you can join the property market and potentially get yourself a hot property. Bryce will be also be listing some of the common traps that ...

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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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RBA Rate Decision – August 2015

Today the Governor and the Reserve Board met and kept interest rates on hold for another month. Now, they are continuing to stay at record low levels where the cash rate remains at 2%. Now for a first in this commentary series that you may have seen or may not have seen before, I'm going to actually cut to some audio of Glenn Stevens presenting a...

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The Buyers’ Decision Quadrant

I'm always finding when people are buying real estate whether they are buying it for themselves to live in or they are buying it for an investment property, they are faced with some form of compromise. We've thought about this a lot and usually it is one of four things. So we've come up with what's called the Buyers' Decision Quadrant. It's really ...

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