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Sky Business Channel, Your Money Your Call (October 2014)

In the 20th of October session of SKY Business News Channel, Your Money Your Call, Ben Kingsley joins Margaret Lomas and Paul Rickard from Switzer 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: The new "Rate a Real Estate" website and what...

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Choosing your first Investment Property

Your first investment property can be the most difficult purchase you'll make - but what happens next? In the Cover Story of November 2014 Issue of Smart Property Investment (SPI) Magazine, Vivienne Kelly interviewed Ben Kingsley and other property experts for some property investment advice and investigates why so many investors stop at one proper...

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RBA Rate Decision – November 2014

Hello! On this Melbourne Cup Tuesday the race that stops the nation. Well it didn't stop the Reserve Bank board meeting today and again, as well predicted the Reserve Bank kept interest rates on hold at 2.5%. No big changes, no big surprises. The Reserve Bank is still concerned about the headwinds that the economy experiences in terms of its GDP nu...

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Preparing your House for Sale

A property investment strategy can be a buy and hold or sometimes, a buy, hold and sell. But for those who had gone through the selling path, you would know that most of the heavy lifting are done when preparing your house for sale. In this episode of Look At Property Season 8, Ben Kingsley offers his point of view as a Buyers Advocate and explains...

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Tips for Buying at Auction – Part 2

Auction Tip No.3 The third tip for anyone looking to buy a property at auction is to get your ducks in a row. First is finance. I know it sounds very straightforward and simple but the amount of people who actually do turn up at auction without having their finance done is really does amaze me. But the other thing is you need to have it look at re...

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Seventh Heaven

Bryce Holdaway is recently interviewed by Sunday Times, Perth on the seven top tips to help make your home ownership dreams come true. Here's a snippet of the article: "There are plenty of would-be homebuyers who are beyond desperate to get a foothold on the property ladder. In my line of work, I see so many people go through the process of buyi...

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Three things to Consider before Setting up a SMSF

The Top 3 things that I ask a client to think about before setting up a SMSF (Self Managed Superannuation Fund) generally is the first thing; can my current Superfund offer the things that I'm actually after. So for example, shares. A lot of the times, I see clients setting up their SMSF because they want control and the flexibility to buy and sel...

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Finding the perfect investment property

Finding the perfect investment property is the dream of each property investors out there. In this episode of Look At Property Season 8, Ben Kingsley started off with the first decision that a property investor has to make before finding that perfect investment property. They then moved on to other questions that an investor has to ask himself, whe...

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Mortgage Free at 23

Jack Stevens knows just how short life is. He was only a teenager when his father sadly passed away from cancer at the young and unfair age of just 58. It was a tough time in his life and all the more painful by the fact his father had been working hard to build a large property portfolio - one that would have provided him with a comfortable retire...

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What do the Banks look for when Lending Money?

So you are thinking about actually getting a loan? What is it that the Banks are going to be looking for in terms of being able to lend you money for a mortgage? There's actually 5Cs that allow them to do that. Character, Capacity, Conditions, Collateral and Common Sense. So let's explore all five! The first one is Character. When they are talki...

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Planning your purchase ahead of Christmas

If you’ve been in the property market long enough, you would know that the market is ever changing even on holiday seasons. With around 2 more months to Christmas, we thought it would be best for us to write about planning ahead for people who are currently looking to buy a property and what to look out for.   Owner Occupier The propert...

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Tips for Buying at Auction – Part 1

I find that lots of buyers are really reluctant to go to auction and to be honest, for good reasons because its largely a process that favors the seller and of course, the auctioneer. But here's five tips that I can give you to help you better prepare for when you're buying your next property at auction. Auction Tip No.1 The first one is quite simp...

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Panel Chat on Australia’s Property Market

In this episode of Look At Property Panel Season 8, Ben Kingsley and Bryce Holdaway was interviewed by host, Des Dowling for a general chat on the Property market across Australia. They started off with the hot topic at the moment: Is Australia in a Housing Market Bubble? This topic has caught a lot of media attention lately particularly due to the...

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