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Double trouble for the Australian Property Market?

It is no secret that property values have dramatically increased in the last 10 years. So much so, that some commentators are saying that the Australian Property Market is experiencing a property bubble and a "burst" is coming. In this episode of Today show, Bryce Holdaway was asked to give his opinion on these questions: which city has seen the...

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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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Sky Business News – Your Money Your Call (February 2016)

Ben Kingsley is invited to join the SKY Business News Channel, Your Money Your Call (YMYC) on 21st of February 2016 along with Lisa Montgomery 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: The recent Current Affair episode about a youn...

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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 Global Economy & Equity Outlook (Part 4) | Australian 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: So now let’s come into Australia. Where do you see – again we started pretty sluggishly, terrible sort of start. The first days of t...

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2016 Global Economy & Equity Outlook (Part 3) | Commodities Market

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: So when we look at commodities, obviously the largest commodity is actually cash and the next commodity after that is oil and then iron ...

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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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