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The Great Australian Dream

A greater number of Australians are dreaming of building wealth through property, and it's not hard to see why. In this June 2014 Issue of Smart Property Investment Magazine (SPI), Ben writes about how the great Australian dream has changed over time and how it has affect the property investment industry.   "Thousands upon thousands of Australian ...

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Auction: A Love Hate Relationship

Understanding why there's such a love-hate relationship in why buyers and sellers don't really like the auction process but the real estate agents do is really understanding what's in it for the real estate agent and the first thing is basically, vendor paid advertising for them personally and their business's brand. They've got the big billboards ...

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How much Money can you borrow?

So how much money can I borrow? It's a question we all ask ourselves from time to time and it's a good question to ask and from a Lender's point of view it's a question around serviceability. So when they're talking about serviceability they're actually saying that here's the household income coming in, here's the expenditure that we've got associa...

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The Impact of the Federal Budget on your retirement

In recent articles in this series, we have discussed the state of incomes of older Australians compared to other developed nations, and concluded that we fare very poorly in such a comparison. In this article, we take a look at the proposals contained in the May 2014 Federal Budget and how they may impact on the wealth and lifestyle of older Austra...

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Metro versus Regional

There s no single path to successful property investing, Investors often have to make decisions that have no right or wrong answer. Strategies, purchases, timing and opinions differ from investor to investor, and indeed expert to expert. In the June 2014 Issue of Smart Property Investment Magazine (SPI), our team goes head to head and present thei...

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Risky Business

Having an unregulated property investment industry presents some very real dangers and something needs to be done about it. In the May 2014 Issue of Smart Property Investment Magazine, Ben Kingsley, chairman of Property Investment Professionals Of Australia (PIPA) writes about the risky business in Australia's property industry and the differenc...

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RBA Rate Decision – June 2014

Today the Reserve Bank met and kept interest rates on hold for another month. It's amazing what can happen after a federal budget and more importantly, an austere federal budget. We're actually seeing what I said in my last video from last month is that this budget is an important budget. And it's an important budget in terms of momentum in the ...

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Wealth Secrets

Occasionally, we would have some spare lump of money that just sitting idly in the bank account. Although they might be generating some steady interest rates but there are always other options and investments where you can put the money to a better use.  In the third Wealth Secrets issue of Money Magazine, Bryce Holdaway was interviewed on what he...

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What Properties are considered Risky by Banks?

I think the answer to this question is having an understanding of what properties the bank would be comfortable letting you have lenders mortgage insurance on, and that's a scenario where if you borrow more than 80% of the purchase price, so 85% - 95% of the purchase price, the bank will actually give you lenders mortgage insurance (LMI). There ar...

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