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Education versus Sales Pitch

Events and seminars can offer great investment insights, but investors must differentiate between education ans a sales pitch. This time in the May 2013 issue of Smart Property Investment Magazine, Ben Kingsley writes about the importance of continually building your understanding and exposure towards Property Investment if you are an investor you...

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State of the Property Market

Ben Kingsley, CEO and Founder of Empower Wealth appears in this Melbourne Property TV (MPTV) Segment with fellow co-panel discussing about the State of the Property Market. This time around in MPTV, Ben shares his point of view towards: - how lower interest rate affects Australians affordability which subsequently affects the property market movem...

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The Investment A-Team

As the driver of your investment strategy, selecting the right members for your team is crucial to scoring investment gold. In April 2013 issue of the Smart Property Investment Magazine, Ben Kingsley writes about the need to take control and hand pick a team that will be contributing and working towards improving your financial status. Similar to ...

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A Meeting of Minds

The most successful investor know to get their knowledge from those who have been successful before them. For the April 2013 issue of Smart Property Investment Magazine, Ben Kingsley was invited to join five other leading minds in property to share and discuss their views on different aspects of property investment. Ben will be answering questions ...

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How to Calculate Profit from Property Investment

You have heard me say this before, Property Investing is not easy.  It involves large amounts of money and carries risks, from picking a good property to managing cash flows and ongoing costs of holding the property, to poor tenants, to legislative changes, to interest rate rises, the list could go on and on.  But what’s really interesting is ...

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Earn $2,500 a Week by Building a Property Portfolio

How often have you found yourself picturing a retirement where you’re enjoying regular overseas holidays, spending your spare time with your grandkids and leisurely filling up your days doing all the things you love? We all have but we’re brought down to earth quickly by reports suggesting there won’t be enough money for a comfortable retirem...

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RBA Rate decision – April 2013

The Reserve Bank of Australia has left interest rates on hold as widely expected at its board meeting today.  It continues to sit on the fence to consider further economic data following its series of cuts last year, plus the developing story of the new Euro crisis – Cyprus.  Then there’s China, which I come to later.... On the domestic ho...

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2013 Property Market Outlook

As all other medias had suggested, the performance of the Real Estate Market for the first part of 2013 had been really well and is showing signs of recovery. This time in Melbourne Property TV (MPTV), Ben Kingsley joins the host and other co-panel in discussing what this meant. Ben explains the technicality of this movement and relates it to th...

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Checklist for a Great Property Manager

One of the many things we do that our competitor Buyer's Agents don't all do is offer an independent recommendation when it comes to the final stage in your property purchasing journey. We don't just leave our clients with a great property and wish them well, we actually take an active role in making sure their newest asset is managed by a professi...

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Property Investment – Safe and Easy……REALLY?

The early 2013 signs are positive for a return to capital value growth within the residential property sector, as agents report significantly more enquiry and general interest as consumer sentiment improves. Once again the media will add to the potential ‘hype’ as it loves either a falling market or a rising market because it makes for good he...

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What Contractors and Self Employed Borrowers Need to Know

Borrowing money as a contractor for self employed person is not as straight forward as borrowing money when you are a PAYG employee.  In fact the levels of lending policy extremes when comparing PAYG and self employed or contractors is great. At one extreme end, PAYG employees can seek to secure a Home loan with some lenders as early as getting...

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Predicting the Future

In previous articles, we have been looking at the inputs to and outcomes from an investment strategy, and have identified the return on an investment asset, generally made up of some combination of growth and yield, as a key measure of the performance of that asset. We are able to obtain information on the recent growth and current yield of diff...

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RBA Rates Decision – March 2013

The RBA decided to keep interest rates on hold at their March board meeting, as they sit on the fence waiting to see further data flowing through from the significant easing on the cash rate they did last year. Critical figures released last week show there are certain signs of a slowing in the capital expenditure in the mining sector.  Althoug...

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