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Is Rent Money Dead Money?

Is it true that Rent Money is Dead Money? Bryce Holdaway explains the one exception to the rule, which can actually work MORE in your favour, in his latest How To Video. Watch time: under 4 mins. Read time: 2 minutes.   Today I want to talk to you about a common question that comes up, “Is rent money dead money?”. My suggestion is that t...

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The Property Couch Chat with Paul Clitheroe

  We usually don't repost the episodes in our podcast, The Property Couch, but our 200th Episode is a milestone! And for our milestone, we got a legendary Money Guru that changed a lot of Australian households back in the 90s. Yes, we are talking about none other than Paul Clitheroe! As the host of the show Money on the Nine Networ...

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3 Handy Tips to Invest in a Changing Market

Today I want to talk about the change in the property market — more specifically, the sentiment around Sydney and Melbourne. Let's be honest, the last few years have been very generous to property owners and property investors in those two mainland cities on the East Coast. But what we're finding now is this real shift from, “When will I buy...

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Why is it so hard to build a passive income?

Today I want to talk about one of the reasons why I think it's a little bit difficult to build a passive income for a lot of people. For me, it's about setting the goal in the first place. I've got a virtual mentor, Michael Hyatt, who talks about how to set goals. He talks about goals being in either the comfort zone, the discomfort zone or the ...

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Get Rid of The A.E.W.D Mindset

In this How To session I want to explore A.E.W.D. Now, you might be thinking what is that?  Well, I will get there in a minute; but first, I want to tell a story around this. Recently, I've been on holidays — it’s been Christmas and New Year — and obviously around Christmas time you get to spend a lot of time with extended family and f...

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RENTVESTING: The Best of Both Worlds

Want to live in an inner city suburb, but simply can’t afford to buy in it? Hello, rentvesting! In this Money Magazine article, Ben explores the alternative strategy to tackle housing affordability: Rent in the location you want to live; but still invest property. Rentvesting is a shift from the baby boomer view of home ownership; but it is ...

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Why I Love Property

I was recently asked by a journalist when they were interviewing me, “Why is it that out of all the asset classes out there, why do you actually love property as a form of investment?” And it's pretty simple. It’s actually leverage. The fact that I can use the cash that I've got and leveraged it to buy a much larger asset, and then I can g...

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Sky Business News – Your Money Your Call (December 2016)

For the December 2016  segment of SKY Business News Channel, Your Money Your Call (YMYC), Ben Kingsley joins the Margaret Lomas and Tony Hayek to discuss what's making news in the property market and more. They answered some emails and calls from viewers and some of the topics are: Will the Melbourne property market soften in 2017? Market se...

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Timing the Market vs. Time in the Market

A contentious topic that has left property experts in disagreement, timing the market versus time in the market is a debatable area in deciding which method is the better way to invest in property. First of all, let's be very clear of the definition. Timing the market refers to an investor getting into the market cycle when it's at the bottom of...

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Pay off the mortgage or invest – How to do both?

Investors often face with one common question when their savings grow: Should I pay off the mortgage or invest? With interest rates at its all time low and an outperforming property market, some might think that it is an obvious choice but how sure are you? In this Money Magazine's August 2016 Edition, Bryce shares his point of view on how you can ...

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Are women better at property investing?

When it comes to property investing, the question is who actually makes for the better property investor? Is it the men or is it the women? Now, I'm probably not the most balanced person to answer that question because clearly I have an agenda out of that but I was recently chatting with Veronica Morgan who is my co-host on Location Location Locati...

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Why is property investing so hard?

Hi Ben Kingsley here, today on our How to Session, I'm going to talk about why is property investing so hard. Now I'm here on the whiteboard but today we are using some cards. We are going to basically look at the whole complexity surrounding property. You've heard us talk before if you've watched some of our other videos about owner occupier appea...

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The property self assessment test

When we’re building property portfolio plans for our clients, there is a section we go through as part of learning about them. And that section is what we call the property self assessment test. We ask them whats their level of skill and what’s their level of experience in being able to do this themselves. So we ask them to rank that between 1 ...

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