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Four Ways to Make A Real Estate Agent’s Day

When you're engaging with a real estate agent, their job is to negotiate with you and try to extract as much information out of you as they can. So that they can ultimately get a good outcome for their client who is the seller, generally at the buyer's expense by trying to get that extra money out of you. So for today's How to Session, I thought we...

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Seven Ways To Jeopardise A Deal

So one of the things that you should always consider when you are buying a property is that it really comes down to four parts when you are doing a deal. You got to Clarify what you are after; you got to go and Find the properties whether they are off-market or on-market; you got to Assess the property that you found against the criteria that you c...

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

For the August 2016  segment of SKY Business News Channel, Your Money Your Call (YMYC), Ben Kingsley joins the Margaret Lomas and Tony Abboud 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: Property Spruikers, some of the tactics they employ, recent cas...

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What happens when the property passes in to you?

So if you are interested in buying particularly in the bigger cities of Melbourne and Sydney, chances are for the good properties you are going to have to go to auctions to purchase them. And for a lot of people, they really don't like the auction process. It's scary and it's in that public speaking environment but what happens if the property pass...

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Are Off Market Properties the Holy Grail?

There is a lot of talks around off market properties and whether or not that's the holy grail that a property investor should aspire to on their next purchase. So it does beg the question on what exactly is an off market property? As the name suggests, it's a property that is sold, it transacted. It changes the name from one person to the next with...

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Buyers Beware! Five Common Tricks Real Estate Agents Use

Download your free report at the end of this blog post! Today I want to talk from the buyer's perspective and, more specifically, what they need to be aware of when dealing with real estate agents directly. I'll be focusing on some of the sneaky tricks that real estate agents employ to get more money out of the buyer because, ultimately, what w...

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So you’ve bought the property… What’s Next? (Part 2)

The next step is, "Well, ok, once I've settled, the next biggest anxiety I'm going to have is whether or not I'm going to get a tenant." So you really need to start thinking about property managers and interviewing a range of property managers. Ask them some key questions because they are going to be in charge of looking after your asset. For me, t...

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Off Market Opportunities

If you are active in the property industry, chances are you would have heard about this thing called "off market opportunities". To some, this almost seems like a VIP only access and exclusive to a selected few. In this issue of Australian Property Investor (API) Magazine, Bryce Holdaway was asked to share his opinion as a Buyers Agent and to help ...

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How to find properties before they hit the 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: Ben Kingsley joins me once again. Ben, of course, is the CEO and founder of Empower Wealth. They specialize in finding the best buys fo...

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Who Do You Take Your Advice From? | Free vs Fee

So the question is, who do you take your advice from when you are buying an investment property? There's really two side of the equation in this industry; someone who is prepared to give you the information for free versus someone like a Buyers Agent who is prepared to charge you a fee for service but the difference is this person who is giving you...

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Underquoting Is it a Myth or Does it Exist

“Quote it Low and Watch it Go” This is the term used by some real estate agents in the past but is now becoming extinct with updated legislation from the REIV coupled with large penalty fines. The truth is, many people buying at auction and within the general public are not aware of the relevant authorities and peak bodies that are trying to st...

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Buying an Off Market Property

As Buyers Agents, we absolutely love a good off market opportunity. The key here is having a great network, as these kinds of property sales, while perhaps not having to deal with anywhere near as much competition, require strong property market understanding and negotiation skills if the buyer is to get a good deal. When the market is humming a...

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Preparing your House for Sale

A property investment strategy can be a buy and hold or sometimes, a buy, hold and sell. But for those who had gone through the selling path, you would know that most of the heavy lifting are done when preparing your house for sale. In this episode of Look At Property Season 8, Ben Kingsley offers his point of view as a Buyers Advocate and explains...

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