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Should I Buy Property Now in Australia? Here’s What the Latest Auction Data (and Our Reel) Is Telling Us

A few weeks ago, we posted a short video on Instagram from a Melbourne auction. It was only 12 seconds long — just a quick pan of the crowd. But the reaction was anything but small. In a matter of hours, the reel racked up 17,000+ views and 40+ shares. That level of engagement told us something important: people are starting to feel the ...

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Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from the Empower Wealth Team!

Hi everyone and Merry Christmas to all! In this year’s 2019 Christmas message, I wanted to focus on a theme around financial peace. I mean, the year has been challenging for some —a bit of economic uncertainty, a bit of job uncertainty — but the bright spot in the second half of the year has definitely been the property market. And that hopef...

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Defence: The Secret to Protect Your Portfolio and Prevent The Worst From Ever Happening

Hi, Ben Kingsley here. In our best-selling book The Armchair Guide To Property Investing - How to retire in $2,000 a week we talk about the Property Investment Formula. This includes Asset Selection, Borrowing Power, Cash Flow Management and Defence. In this how-to video I'm going to take a deeper dive into Defence. When you think about defence, w...

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Labor’s Negative Gearing Policy Blunders (Part 1)

This video is part of our Negative Gearing video series. You're currently watching Video 2. Video 1: What is Negative Gearing and Why It’s NOT a Strategy? - Watch here Video 3: Labor's Negative Gearing Policy Blunders (Part 2) - Watch here Transcript: Hi Ben Kingsley here. In this negative gearing series, I'm going to talk to you in two parts a...

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The Secret Revealed: Should You Buy For Capital Growth or Yield?

Alright folks, I want talk today about the number one question I often get — “Should I buy for capital growth or should I buy for yield?” My answer is very, very simple: it depends. It absolutely depends on what your strategy is. So, first of all I want to make a very clear point here… strategy is number one. What are we aiming for? What's...

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Merry Christmas & That’s a Wrap, 2018!

Hi Ben Kingsley here, Managing Director of Empower Wealth. And, yep, it's that time of the year again — I'm sure the hat gave it away — but it's my Christmas and calendar year wrap for Empower Wealth! It has been a massive year for Empower Wealth, and each year I like to check in with you to share some of the achievements and milestones that ha...

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Retiring Through Real Estate: Our Real Life Clients

Empower Wealth clients, John and Lani, featured in Your Investment Property Magazine’s October 2018 issue, explaining their journey towards financial peace. After discovering us after watching our educational How To videos, John found our conservative plan to be the correct road map to allow both him and Lani the necessary next-step to retiring ...

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The Story Behind The Numbers – August 2018

Hello, Ben Kingsley here. Welcome to the August edition of The Story Behind the Numbers. It’s been a bit of solid month— just before we're coming into the Spring buying season. We had 22 plans that we created for clients, in terms of next-step Plans or 4 Property Portfolio Plans. We're going to be recommending 19 investment properties for thos...

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The Story Behind The Numbers – July 2018

At Empower Wealth, we are truly lucky to work with many different clients from various aspects of life. And the thing we love most is... each and everyone that we've worked with has an inspiring story behind them. Because at the end of the day, we work with real people, real money and real properties. And we build real plans based on real dreams...

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5 Golden Tips for getting Finance in this Changing Landscape

Today I want to talk to you about some tips on getting finance in the current environment because we know that the landscape has changed with APRA intervening 12 – 18 months ago to try and take some heat out of the property market. But it's still a very good time to be playing the long game and buying really great properties in the marketplace�...

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In The Hot Seat with Ben Kingsley

In Money Magazine's May issue, Ben features in The Hot Seat! Check out his answers to the ten questions ...   What was your first job? My first real paying job was actually window cleaning. A guy across the road from where I grew up ran a domestic window-cleaning business. So when I wasn’t studying for my associate diploma in busine...

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7 Common Questions Property Investors Ask

[This event has now ended but there will be future events coming up and we'd love to hear from you! Join our Newsletter or connect with us on Facebook to stay in touch.]   BRYCE: Hey Ben, we're really excited about the upcoming webinar that we have on the Seven Deadly Sins when it comes to Building a Property Portfolio and we want to tal...

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Revealed: How Much You Need To Retire in ONE SIMPLE FORMULA

What I want to talk about today is the concept of retirement and, more specifically, how much do you need to have in passive income to support the lifestyle you really want in retirement? Because for most people, I wonder if they've thought this through. I've spoken to hundreds and hundreds of people, and they often talk to me about how they want...

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