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What is Rentvesting?

So what is Rentvesting? Rentvesting has come about through the fact that housing is getting more and more difficult to buy closer into the city. So we are actually seeing values in those city areas starting to increase beyond what say the average household can buy. Yet that average household still wants to have all the conveniences and lifestyle d...

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5 Reasons Why You Shouldn’t Invest in Property

ith the interest rate being so low and some really strong market in Melbourne and Sydney, it's not unusual for people to be really excited with the idea of investing in property. Well, I'm actually going to give you five reasons you shouldn't invest in property right now. And the first one is the Fear of Missing Out (FOMO). The obvious example of t...

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The Secret of Our Success

Have you always wondered what secret strategies have made successful property investors so rich? How did these investors start their property portfolio? Did they have a lot a money to begin with? How did they manage to juggle their full time job and the task of managing their investment properties? Well, wonder no more. Australian Property Investor...

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Residential Property Investment: The Overlooked Wealth Management Tool

Whether you are exploring ways to grow your wealth for the first time, or whether you are already well on your way, it is essential to have a plan that details what you want to achieve, which investments you are going for and how you are going to achieve your goals. With investments such as shares, FOREX, bonds, where the market is live, there is a...

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A Home Is Not Just a Home: The Process of Buying a Home with an Investor’s Mindset (Part 1)

Buying a home is one of the most important financial decisions you’ll make in your lifetime. Some people live in the same property for the entire life and build a lifetime of memories in there while others tend to move from one property to another depending on their life circumstances ie: an expanding family or a change in career. Whichever group...

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Should You Be A Borderless Investor?

So I guess the question for property investors are, should you be a borderless investor and what does that actually mean? More than ever, I'm talking to clients who are keen to not invest in their own backyard and actually look into other states for opportunities to buy because one of the biggest question that I'm always asked, in my role in the sh...

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Investing Interstate

>> Play Audio here   In this episode of Real Estate Talk, Kevin Turner interviews Bryce Holdaway and ask him about investing interstate. What is the trend in the property market now and should we invest in our own backyard where we are more comfortable or board a plane and invest in a new area? Here a snippet of the podcast: Kevin...

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Negative Gearing vs Positive Gearing | Which is Better?

Hello, Ben Kingsley here and today I want to talk about Negative Gearing vs Positive Gearing. Now the difference between the two is an income outcome which basically means that with negative gearing properties, we actually have to put some of our surplus cash into supporting the investment as opposed to positive gearing where we actually get some ...

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Do Holiday Homes make Good Investments?

I’m often asked the question on whether or not Holiday homes make for great investments and generally speaking, from what I’ve seen, it doesn’t and largely it comes down to the fact that the time when you want to rent it out to get the maximum money from is actually the time when you want to spend the time in there with your family. So that...

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New to Property Investment? Here’s What You Need to Know

Have you always been interested in property investment? You may have watched television shows about it or heard about it from your mates at barbeque or dinner party last weekend. After much consideration, you may have officially decided to make it your business venture too. While many investors have great success with the properties that they have ...

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Buy and Hold vs Timing the Market

There is no single path to successful property investment - different approaches and strategies will work at different times for each investor. As we always said at Empower Wealth, there is never a one size fits all strategy. Every individual and every household is unique so make sure to tailor your property investment strategy. In the January 2014...

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Key steps to work out the best Property Investment Strategy for you

Thank you very much Paul. Good morning everybody. Thank you for getting up so early on a Saturday morning to hear this presentation. Hopefully I won’t disappoint you. We’ve got a lot to get through this morning. The first section of the presentation just talks about the frameworks that we use in terms of putting the big rocks in the jar as I...

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Powerful Strategies to Finding Properties

It's easy to think that once you have decided on an investment strategy and got your finances sorted, you have moved into the home strait. After all, the remaining step is simply to go out and buy a property, right? Wrong! While the buying stage is one that many investors look forward to with great excitement, it is in fact full of minefields that ...

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