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5 Property Tips on the Today Show!

Peter Stefanovic: Property prices across the country are dropping at their fastest rate since 2012. Allison Langdon: It's transformed the market, giving the power to buyers for the first time in years. Peter: But if you're looking to jump into the market right now there is a big warning to proceed with caution. So joining us with some expert ...

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RBA Rate Decision – June 2017

The Reserve Board met today, and they kept the cash rate on hold for another month at 1.5%. Now we saw May 2017 being a very interesting month in regards to the Federal Budget. It came out, and we did see some surprises inside that Federal Budget. Firstly let's talk about the Bank Levy. This is all to do with what they call budget repair and it'...

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Will You Remain Confident In A Changing Market?

I want to talk about confidence in a changing market. Now we've been very blessed to see property prices has grown significantly over the last several years with low-interest rates and a reasonably OK economy in terms of jobs. But we are going to see that potentially change. We are already seeing the regulators and the banks starting to see the ...

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2016 Predictions on the Australian Property Market

As we finished off 2015 and inevitably start with 2016, it is always common to think about what might happened in the year to come. This time on 774 ABC Radio Melbourne, Ben Kingsley was asked to provide some of his 2016 Predictions for the Australian Property Market. Whilst we are not psychic in any way, Ben does have a thorough understanding on h...

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

In this SKY Business News Channel, Your Money Your Call (YMYC) on 28th of September 2015, Ben Kingsley joins Margarete Lomas and Tony Hayek from Blue Wealth 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: With lower auction clearance rat...

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What are the Worst Performing properties in a Market Correction

Look with property being so popular, it is the great Australian barbeque topic right now. Everyone wanted to jump on board with what I call FOMO or the Fear Of Missing Out. I think it is really important that people make great decisions around asset selection now cause there are two types of property that I think are really vulnerable when the mark...

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Australia’s Housing Boom

Melbourne's property prices have surged in the past month, pushing ahead of Sydney in the last quarter. The property market in Australia's two biggest cities are currently dominated by investors who are currently making up to 60% of buyers. What had cause this housing boom in both cities and is it a good time to buy now considering the increasing p...

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Detecting a turning market

>> Play Audio here   In this episode of Real Estate Talk, Kevin Turner interviews Ben Kingsley and ask him about the signs he looks for to detect a turning market. Here's the transcript:   Kevin:  One of the things I find that a lot of investors do is spend a lot of time trying to pick the market – that is, trying to...

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Australia’s Housing Market Bubble

Australia's housing market has had their best winter since 2007 according to figures released this week by RP Data. The company says prices for capital cities dwelling rose 4.2% over the three months to the end of August. The increase had been lead by housing market in Sydney and Melbourne as prompted a warning by the Reserve Bank Governor, Glenn S...

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Will the Property Market crash in 2013?

Well folks, it is December 21, or as the Mayans call it, April Fool’s Day." - Jay Leno What a relief to know that the Mayans predictions didn’t come true in December last year despite the huge media exposure it received.  But sometimes you could be excused for thinking that the reporting of property in the Australian media is similar ...

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Are we about to experience a Property Boom?

Recently, the Australian property market had had a good run. Properties prices are growing rapidly, banks' interest rates on the other hand are dropping, home loans are increasing and even rental rates are increasing. It has been great on the property market but like always, what ever that goes up must come down. Are all these a symptom of a proper...

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Property Market ‘Too Important to Fail’

Imagine a situation where what you’re investing in, is also so critical to the overall economy in which that investment is found, that if it failed it would severely cripple the economy and standard of living of its population. You don’t really have to imagine too hard, because that is exactly the situation we have in the Australian market. ...

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Please Keep Talking Up this ‘Property Bubble’!

This month’s comment is not going to focus too much on the hype surrounding property values and what they are worth today or the next 3 months, you can read my previous comments from other newsletters about how I have been predicting 10% or more correction in values in new housing areas where the majority of the market has mortgages, and also in ...

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