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Things to Do Before Buying a Home

There are few things more thrilling than buying a home of your own for the very first time. Having a decent savings or down payment on the home is just a small part of the process. Make sure you have all of your bases covered and a solid idea of what to expect during your journey of becoming a proud homeowner. So just what should you know about how...

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Becoming A Borderless Investor

>> Play Audio here   In this episode of Real Estate Talk, Kevin Turner interviews Bryce Holdaway about how investors should invest in the current property market. He believes professional investors need to focus on becoming borderless investors. He talks about what you need to do to prepare. Here's the transcript:   Kev...

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

This time on SKY Business News Channel, Your Money Your Call (YMYC), Ben Kingsley joins Margarete Lomas and Michael Teys from Block Strata to discuss different aspects of property across Australia. This time, they answered a number of emails and calls from viewers and some of the topics are: Councils' suggestions on removing stamp duty and repl...

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5 Reasons Why You Shouldn’t Invest in Property

ith the interest rate being so low and some really strong market in Melbourne and Sydney, it's not unusual for people to be really excited with the idea of investing in property. Well, I'm actually going to give you five reasons you shouldn't invest in property right now. And the first one is the Fear of Missing Out (FOMO). The obvious example of t...

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Why do Character Homes get the Best Returns?

Why is it that character homes or lifestyle homes get the best returns and why is it that they outperform the market place? Well the reason is quite simple. It's based on the popularity. Let me explain what I mean by character homes and also lifestyle homes. So character or period home have ornate features, they represent strong statuses, they n...

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Are Sydney and Melbourne in a Property Bubble?

If you are house hunting or hosting an open for inspection, the phrase property bubble may be on your mind. The Treasury Sector said evidence showed that Sydney was "unequivocally" experiencing a property bubble as well as Melbourne. So, what does that means for home buyers, investors and the property market?  In this series of ABC News 24, Ben Ki...

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Renovating does not equal Riches

How exciting it is to see someone who has actually done a renovation project and they've made hundreds and thousands of dollars in it. You might think that it is easy to, I guess, replace the yield income by doing a renovation project. We've all probably heard some stories and we've seen the television shows with the really great outcomes and of co...

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RBA Rate Decision – June 2015

Hello, today the Governor and the Reserve Board met and they've kept interest rates on hold. Now this was widely anticipated. The facts are, at 2% cash rate, it is at historically low level and if we were to actually move rates further down which we do have capacity to do if you look at the minutes for May 2015 Cash Rate. They are saying that we...

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How to Use Investment Property to Pay Off your Home in 10 years

Owning your own home is something many of us aspire to, despite claims that home ownership is overrated. But let's face it, most of us will carry our mortgage for at least 25 years before we can get rid of it. Turn out you don't have to. In this Game Plan by Your Investment Property Magazine, Ben Kingsley and other experts lay out practical strateg...

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Property Spruikers

In the first episode of Look at Property Season 9, Ben Kingsley, CEO & Founder of Empower Wealth and chair of Property Investment Professionals of Australia (PIPA) and Andrew Crossley join Des Dowling to talk about property spruikers. The property investment industry is an unregulated one and it doesn't take a lot to put on a nice suit and star...

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How Do You Spot a Property Spruiker?

I've been in this Property Investment industry for over 16 years and I'm often asked this question, "How do you actually spot a Property Spruiker?". Lots of people talk about property spruikers but what actually is it? In my view, there's actually three, I guess, people that you can take your information from in this property investment industry. T...

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One on One with Bryce Holdaway – May 2015

In this episode of Look at Property Season 9, Bryce Holdaway, Partner and Buyers Agent of Empower Wealth joins Julie McBeth in the discussion around the Property Market in Australia and how it is more important than ever to be a borderless investor especially if you are in Sydney. As we all know, the property value in Sydney at the moment is beyond...

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Foreign Investors | The Great Debate

The impact of foreign investment on the Australia's Property Market had rise as one of the most heated debate in the property investment industry. Some are quite confident that the reason for a rising property value and the supposedly downward trend of our property's affordability is because of rich foreign investors snatching up properties regardl...

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