Parents often ask me how they can help their children into property. Some even contemplate giving one of their existing properties to their children. For those more financially free, giving a property while they are still alive so they can see the joy it creates can be very heart-warming. But there are a number of…
Articles by Ken Raiss
Ken is director of Metropole Wealth Advisory and gives strategic expert advice to property investors, professionals and business owners. He is in a unique position to blend his skills of accounting, wealth advisory, property investing, financial planning and small business. View his articles
The use of Self-Managed Superannuation Funds (SMSF) has skyrocketed over the past decade in particular. Among the many reasons for this increase is the ability to purchase residential property in your SMSF with borrowings – debt via what’s called a Limited Recourse Borrowing Arrangement, or LRBA. In essence, the LRBA structure allows an SMSF to…
I’ve had conversations with plenty of discouraged folks who are in their 50s (or even older) and they’re wondering how they’re going to survive in their retirement. They start to question if it’s too late to invest in property. Is there ever a time when you’re just too old? In general, my response would be…
Housing affordability is the current topic of conversation at dinner tables across the Australia. And for families with Gen Y children, in particular, it’s probably a discussion based around how they’ll struggle to ever buy their own home. For those in Sydney and Melbourne, there’s no denying it has become a lot harder to…
When someone is building their career, they usually have so many different things to think about that they forget some of the most important issues. What I mean is that they forget to think about the future as they’re so caught up in the present. Take, one of my clients, Thomas, for example. He has…
Wealth creation has become a primary target for most people and many are finding property investment as an effective way to hit this target. While there are just over 2 million property investors in Australia, less than a quarter of these have more than one property investment – in other words, they will never develop…
No one ever sets up a business with the intention to fail. Rather, entrepreneurial types are motivated by a multitude of factors such as personal drive and ambition or a desire to work for themselves or to create a particular product or service. Sometimes it’s as simple as wanting to be in charge of our…
When you sell a capital asset such as your property, you make either a capital gain or loss. In essence, you make a capital gain when the difference between what it costs you to acquire the property and what you gained from selling it is greater than zero — otherwise, you make a loss. When…
More and more investors, and particularly Baby Boomers, are using their Self-Managed Super Fund (SMSF) as a vehicle to buy an investment property. So I’d like to share some of the most common mistakes I see people making so you can avoid them. 1. Debt Your Self-Managed Superannuation Fund (SMSF) can borrow money to: a) Purchase…
Relationships are much more complicated these days, aren’t they? It’s common for couples to purchase a property before they have walked down the aisle or even lived together, which raises the question of who gets the house if they break-up? It’s surprising more couples don’t give this a second thought. They assume they’ll be together…