Articles by Brett Warren

Brett Warren

Brett Warren is National Director of Metropole Properties and uses his two decades of property investment experience to advise clients how to grow, protect and pass on their wealth through strategic property advice.

The end of the financial year is fast approaching and with it comes a hard deadline for important life admin . Here’s a list of 7 things you need to do before June 30 according to the team at Finder.com.au. 1. Check your life insurance cover within your super Many Aussies opt in for life…

One of the biggest boosts to our newly invigorated property markets is likely to be Australia’s surging population. According to the latest Australian Bureau of Statistics  figures, Australia’s population grew by 1.6 per cent during 2018 reaching 25.2 million people. The number of births in 2018 reached an all time high of 314,900 – the…

Banks continue to turn their backs on riskier home loans, as the value of new interest-only and low doc loans hit record lows, according to recently released APRA data. APRA’s Quarterly ADI Property Exposures for the March 2019 quarter shows the value of new loans to owner-occupiers fell by 17.6 per cent from the previous…

During the recent election campaign the Coalition promised to help 10,00 First Home Buyers get into the property market by topping up their 5% deposit with the government guarantee for 15% of the loan they would be taking out. In essence this support for those looking to buy their first home offers an additional loan…

Australia’s credit card debt accruing interest has slid to the lowest level in over 11 years as Australians start to wean themselves off high interest debt. The RBA credit card statistics released today show Australia’s debt accruing interest on personal credit cards is now $29.5 billion, down 4.9 per cent year-on-year, and the lowest since…

Many novice home buyers and investors spend hour after hour searching on property listing websites hoping to find the property of their dreams. In reality, hundreds of other potential buyers are doing exactly the same thing, which means “their” property might ultimately end up being someone else’s. Sophisticated investors, on the other hand, regularly pick…

No-one could forget the horrifying images broadcast from London’s Grenfell tower in June 2017, where 72 people tragically lost their lives and more than 70 others were hospitalised, due to cheap flammable aluminium-polyethylene cladding that had been installed on the exterior of the building. The 24-storey building had originally been built in the 1970s, but…

Not everyone is unhappy that house prices around Australia are falling. Savvy Millennials are looking to take advantage of falling house prices. A new survey by Finder shows 35% of Australians aged 34-38 believe they have something to gain from recent price drops: that’s 1.9 million Gen Ys buoyed by the prospect of a bargain….

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