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Getting the right advice before starting your property portfolio is crucial. Talk to the experts to make sure your investment is an educated one.

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Investing in property is a BIG financial and personal decision.  It’s really important you make a lot of wise decisions as you embark on this journey.  Getting it wrong will result in all sorts of financial pressure and emotional stresses.  Yet doing nothing about building your retirement nest egg could be even worse.

Fortunately, at Empower Wealth we have an experienced team of qualified property investment advisors, with proven track records, who can greatly increase your chances of success.  Using our proven property investment planning process, our team is helping guide hundreds of fellow Australian’s embark or fine-tune their property investment strategies to build wealthier tomorrows.

In 2017 over 340 households across Australia and overseas engaged our property investment advisors to build them a property plan designed around their individual circumstances that would increase their wealth and future passive income for retirement.

How do we build our tailored and customised Property Portfolio Plans for our clients? Click here to learn more.

 

 

 

Frequently Asked Questions

  • What is your Property Portfolio Plan about?

    The short answer is, it’s a road map to what you want to achieve when you retire and how you can achieve it by investing in property.

    It’s so much more than that and to fully explain this Plan, we strongly recommend you to watch all the videos here: What does our Property Portfolio Plan include?

  • What do you think about us making a holiday house our first investment property?

    We absolutely don’t. It’s the worst idea ever – unless you are on track to make a surplus $200K income per year continuously after your holiday house repayments are subtracted.

    Come in and have a coffee with us to find out why we are so anti-holiday house purchases as first investments.

  • How have you done it? How can you afford so many?

    A careful combination of capital growth prospect forecasting and cash flow planning with a cautious buffer for provisioning is the only answer. Each property has been considered based on affordability, ongoing management and maintenance cost, gross rental income now (and future) and capital growth prospects. The property which we buy now is deliberately intended not to adversely impact the borrowing capacity for the next one… and so on.

  • How do investors deal with all the tenant issues like they show on Today Tonight?

    They interview their property managers like any other employee who they would entrust with the running of a business. It’s always a shame to see an investor meticulously select and buy a property, only to hand it over to the first managing agent who comes along. Investors should realise that they have a going concern when they buy a property. It’s akin to running a business with poor financials and a bad accountant if it’s left to chance.

  • Shouldn't we pay down our home first before going into more debt?

    What you should do first and foremost is talk to an experienced and accredited finance specialist about this option. It’s true what they say about good debt and bad debt but it’s vital to get the right information and to make sure your specific situation is taken into account. Talk to one of our investment mortgage specialists about your own situation.

  • I would love a new car. Should I do that first and then think about investing?

    NO! Talk to us first. Would you rather have an upgraded depreciating asset if you knew it could cost hundreds of thousands of dollars of lost opportunity?

  • What do you think of off the plan as investment property?

    We will consider all assets on their merits, taking into account your motivation for considering them and more importantly the impact on your cash flow and your future wealth. As a general rule of thumb we are very cautious about off the plan investments and our primary reasons for applying caution are as follows:

    • Many are sold directly by developers or developer’s marketers and advice around their performance is sometimes pitched as ‘free’. If anyone is giving you ‘free’ advice, you need to ask yourself if it is independent, unbiased advice, and whether the advisor or their company is getting a commission, kickback, rebate or other interest from a potential sale.
    • Banks are often tough on ‘off the plan’ sales. We don’t like assets which banks don’t like. Full stop. If it’s hard for you to buy, it could be hard for you to sell and it will be hard for others in the block to be sold. These all have a flow on effect on the growth potential of an asset so we do tread cautiously, always.
    • A sudden release of a large number of similar or identical units/apartments can compromise the values (both rental and sale values) of the asset. To compound this, if a distressed vendor has to make a distress sale, the lower sale price will have a direct effect on the value of your asset.
    • We typically prefer assets with higher ‘Land to Asset Ratios’. Come and chat to us about what types of assets fit this preference.
  • How do you justify the Property Plan’s price?

    Property is a high value transaction and to make a mistake in this investment type can mean tens of thousands of dollars lost, be it in terms of actual loss realised, capital growth missed out on or even opportunity cost. Furthermore, this can often mean irreversible damage to one’s household. So often people build up their property portfolio only to find out later on in life that they are equity rich but cash poor and therefore unable to realise their goals and dreams.

    At Empower Wealth, we have seen these portfolios and have fixed them on behalf of our clients. Imagine how much better off they would be if only they had got their portfolio strategy right in the first place! Our Property Plan aims to do that. It involves hours of calculations and several meetings to ensure we understand your current situation, your cash flow position, your assets and liabilities and most importantly, your aspirations. We aim to make sure you start your investment journey on the right foot and remain on track in achieving a passive income for you and your loved ones. Taking into account all of the above, we believe our Property Plan is good value for money.

  • Are your services only available in Melbourne and Sydney?

    Our Property Investment Advice and the rest of our services are available across Australia!

    We’ve got offices in Melbourne and Sydney if our clients would like to have a face to face appointment but more than 30% of our clients are based outside of the capital cities. Appointments are conducted online and our advisors will share their screen as well to make sure that the client does not miss anything.

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