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Top 5 Considerations when Investing in Brisbane

Today, I want to talk about the considerations you need to think about if you're going to invest into the Brisbane marketplace. I've got quite a few friends who've got multi-million dollar property portfolios and their entire portfolio is made up of Brisbane real estate. So it's a wonderful market to consider. But there's a few things you need t...

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Three Cheap Cosmetic Renovations You Can Consider

In this How-To Session, we're focusing on getting the best bang for buck from the cheapest cosmetic renovation you can do on property! The reason we're going to do those renovations could be because we want to get a better valuation; it could be that we want to get a better rental yield from new tenants coming in; or it could be that we may be s...

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Top 5 Considerations when Investing in Sydney

Today I want to talk about Sydney as a place to invest, particularly from the perspective of someone who doesn't live in New South Wales and is considering becoming a borderless investor and buying in Australia's largest city. Being a Perth boy, the contrast between Perth and Sydney is SO great. The density, the population and the lifestyle is v...

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Top 5 Considerations when Investing in Melbourne

I'm a big advocate for people becoming a borderless investor — and, of course, Melbourne and Sydney have done really great over the last part of the cycle. But what if you actually don't live in Melbourne and you want to know some of the quirks about investing in Melbourne? What should you be looking for? So I thought I'd give some the top five...

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Top Seven Negotiation Tactics for Spring

With spring “Selling Season” just around the corner, I thought it'd be a good time to revisit some negotiating tactics we need to employ when we're looking to buy a property in this upcoming season.   The first one is: it's not all about price. We need to find out what the vendor really wants. It takes a bit of digging, and it takes a...

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Be a Farmer, Not a Hunter

Bryce appears again in Money Magazine ... this time in their Special Edition issue! In this article, Bryce talks about the importance of being a farmer, not a hunter when it comes to a property investing. The theory behind it is that you need to play the investment game for the long term, planting tree seedlings now so that you will sit, c...

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What Is The Biggest Expense A Property Investor Will Face?

As a property investor building a portfolio, the question often asked is, what is the biggest expense I will face when I build out the costs for the portfolio? For me, it's really clear that the biggest expense, bar none, is a vacancy. If you think about it, you're renting a property for $500 a week and it's vacant for four weeks; there's $2,000...

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How to Protect your Portfolio from the Inevitable Storms?

Today what I want to talk about is How do you protect your portfolio from the inevitable storms that you will face if you want to play this game for the long term? We've just had a world record here in Australia—we've had over 25 years without a “technical” recession, which means that no other developed economy in the world has actually do...

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Growing number of one person households | What does it mean for asset selection?

I wonder if any investors ever thought about the fact that the number of people living alone in Australia is actually one in four people. So 25% of us actually live in a dwelling on our own. If you think about that internationally, though, it's actually pretty average. Because if you think about Scandinavia, which is 34%, and Sweden, which is 49% �...

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Four Ways to Make A Real Estate Agent’s Day

When you're engaging with a real estate agent, their job is to negotiate with you and try to extract as much information out of you as they can. So that they can ultimately get a good outcome for their client who is the seller, generally at the buyer's expense by trying to get that extra money out of you. So for today's How to Session, I thought we...

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Seven Ways To Jeopardise A Deal

So one of the things that you should always consider when you are buying a property is that it really comes down to four parts when you are doing a deal. You got to Clarify what you are after; you got to go and Find the properties whether they are off-market or on-market; you got to Assess the property that you found against the criteria that you c...

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Should You Buy A Property With Someone Else?

The question I'm often asked, “Should I buy a property with someone else?” Because I mean, it sounds like a good idea. It is a high-value transaction, and it can seem a little bit daunting to do it on your own. So we've got to have a look at our options. The first one is, if I buy it with someone else I can buy it as Joint Tenants. The most ...

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Sky Business News – Your Money Your Call (February 2017)

Ben Kingsley is welcomed back on SKY Business News Channel, Your Money Your Call (YMYC). With Margaret Lomas away, Lisa Montgomery steers tonight’s discussion as Ben and Brad Beer talk Property Investment and how to make your investment work for you. Live from the studio, they answer a handful of emails and calls of interest, discussing: Wha...

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