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

Ben Kingsley returns to the SKY Business News Channel, Your Money Your Call (YMYC). Joining ‘temporary host’ Lisa Montgomery, Ben and Rich Harvey, discuss sustainable and sensible property investing in Australia. As well as diving into the current property market, the experts weigh in on: Is housing an economic uncertainty? Why do your ...

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SKY News – Apartment purchases lower among investors

The 2016 Property Investor Sentiment Survey by PIPA was recently released and has shed light on what Australian property investors think about the market. One of the findings has indicated that property investors are less interested in investing in apartments with only 10% looking at this year compared to a 15% in previous year. Ben Kingsley joins...

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How do you pick which apartment to invest in?

Okay, so you've decided that you want to buy an apartment as an investment so the question is, which one do you pick? And I think it's no secret to anyone who had been watching my videos for a long time now or even listening to The Property Couch podcast; they know that I am not a fan of medium to high density off the plan apartments. But there are...

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The Rewards of Understanding Scarcity in Property

NOTE: If you like this How to Video, you might also want to check out The Property Couch's Episode 37 where Bryce and Ben talk about the Scarcity Scale and how Location and Property Type plays a part in a property's value.   Hi Ben Kingsley here and today in our How To Session we are going to talk about the rewards of understanding s...

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Suburb growth and the changes that are happening across Australia

Ben Kingsley was asked to appear on this episode of 774 ABC Radio Melbourne. Today’s topic is about suburb growth and the changes that are happening across Australia, in particular the Melbourne area. As compared to 40 years ago where people value land size and they would live a bit further from the city, the current perception towards property ...

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Sky Business News – Your Money Your Call (December 2015)

In this SKY Business News Channel, Your Money Your Call (YMYC) on 21st of December 2015, Ben Kingsley joins Margaret Lomas and Michael Tey from Block Strata 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: What are the top issues that fac...

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Why we don’t like off the plan properties?

We all hear about the benefits of off the plan developments, but aside from stamp duty savings, groovy new dwellings and small holding deposits, what are some of the perils? Many investors have flocked to off plan developments in the past because they were either encouraged by the marketers who were promoting them, or lured by the stamp duty savin...

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Which Unit is Best – High Density or Low Density?

I’ve been in conversation with a couple of buyers advocates over the past few weeks, and it’s surprising how many of their attitudes differ with regard to investment property, namely whether you should be buying apartments in high density areas (HD) such as CBD locations, or low density (LD) inner city locations. For the sake of a comparison, I...

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