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2015 Australian Property Market Outlook | Part 3 – Brisbane and Regional QLD

Property Investment in Brisbane had been a hot topic in recent months. Some might say it is unwise to invest in a holiday area but some other might say Brisbane is going through a re-gentrification and is at the top of their property market cycle. Ben and Bryce will discuss these issues including what areas of Brisbane are looking at a high leve...

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2015 Australian Property Market Outlook | Part 2 – Melbourne and Regional VIC

For the second part of our 2015 Property Market Outlook, we focus on the Property Market in Melbourne and Regional Victoria. What are the current building approval rates, how is it affecting the property values and the future of residential real estate in Melbourne? Will the current inflow of migration be able to support the demand for property in ...

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2015 Australian Property Market Outlook | Part 1 – Sydney and Regional NSW

To deliver you good quality educational content on the 2015 Australian Property Market and how you can invest in properties in each different state, we've split our 2015 Outlook into six different parts! In part 1 of Ben Kingsley and Bryce Holdaway Property Market Outlook, we look at our Number 1 economy at the moment, New South Wales. What's go...

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Property Investment Doesn’t Have To Be Hard: Read These Six Tips

In today’s current economic environment, building wealth and saving for a comfortable retirement has become more and more difficult. Simply saving a portion of your income or relying on a pension was never adequate to fund a person’s retirement in Australia and so, the Superannuation system was introduced by the Keating Labor government. Now, h...

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Planning your purchase ahead of Christmas

If you’ve been in the property market long enough, you would know that the market is ever changing even on holiday seasons. With around 2 more months to Christmas, we thought it would be best for us to write about planning ahead for people who are currently looking to buy a property and what to look out for.   Owner Occupier The propert...

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Tips for Buying at Auction – Part 1

I find that lots of buyers are really reluctant to go to auction and to be honest, for good reasons because its largely a process that favors the seller and of course, the auctioneer. But here's five tips that I can give you to help you better prepare for when you're buying your next property at auction. Auction Tip No.1 The first one is quite simp...

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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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ABC News – Is the Property Market too Hot?

The Reserve Bank has warned that Australia's property market has become unbalanced because of the surge in loans to investors. The RBA is worried about speculative buying, particularly in Melbourne and Sydney and is now talking to other regulators about stricter lending standards. On top of that, there seems to be concerns about people over leverag...

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Which is the best state to invest in?

As a property investment analyst and qualified property investment advisor, I'm often asked which is the best state to buy property in. But that's not necessarily the best question. There are over 9.4 million dwellings across Australia and those numbers increase around 130- 160,000 new dwellings every year. So on average, every week there's over tw...

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8 Tips to Buy in a Hot Market

I’ve been buying property on behalf of clients since October 1998 and in that time I have experienced many hot property markets.  Having moved from Perth to Queensland in 2002 and then to Melbourne in 2006 as well as travelling around the country filming Location Location Location Australia for the last 3 years, it sometimes seemed like I was of...

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Will Property Prices Keep Increasing – a 38 Year Analysis – part 2

In last month article I highlighted the returns of 3 different Melbourne suburbs over a 38 year period and in this article I promised to explain how this happened.  In doing so, I have included three new graphs of each Suburb to help illustrate my findings. To help you interpret them I will just explain what is consistently measured in each graph...

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John Maynard Keynes – does that name ring a bell for you?

Well if you are someone who has studied economics, it will definitely ring a bell.  Those who haven’t well, this English Economist was influential in helping the world get through the Great Depression, by convincing governments to use fiscal and monetary stimulus to kick-start the global economy with his macro-economic theory around business cyc...

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The Overlooked Market Factor

If capital growth is high on your investment agenda, owner occupier trends need to be on your radar. In the August 2013 - Smart Property Investment Magazine, Ben Kingsley writes about the need to assess a whole range of factors influencing the property market if order to be a successful property investor. More often than not though, one of the most...

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