Browse through our many articles from experts who are currently in the market and making money from property development. Learn about property renovations, the property development process, plus lots more….
Welcome to Property Investment Update. If you are interested in creating wealth through property investing – browse our site to get tips and strategies you can trust from Australia’s leading real estate investment, tax, property development and finance experts. To keep up to date with regular market updates, please click here
With our property markets performing strongly, many investors start to consider how they can outperform the general market and increase the value of their properties and their wealth. Sometimes, that involves renovating to boost its value and rental yield, and other times, after they have a few renovations under their belt, it involves developing a…
Are you interested in property development? While many properties make good homes, fewer are “investment grade” properties and even fewer are potentially profitable development sites. In a recent blog, I outlined why I choose the suburbs where I undertake developments very carefully. Now it’s time to find the “right” property in that suburb – one that could…
Buy, renovate and hold is one of my favourite property investment strategies. I enjoy taking a dwelling that’s been a bit neglected and breathing new life into it, making it into a home my tenants will love and want to care for and more importantly, it’s a great way of manufacturing equity for my property…
Property Development involves a wide range of activities and processes from purchasing land, building and developing high rise apartment buildings and everything in between. In order to be successful, you’ll need to educate yourself on property, the markets, economics, finance, town planning, the construction processes and the marketing of real estate projects. Sound like a lot…
The remarkable house building boom of the past year continues unabated with another record month of activity and no sign of easing any time soon. The ABS reports that the number of capital city house building approvals surged again over March to a new record monthly total of 10,075. The March result was 12.6% higher…
If you’re interested in getting involved in property development, or even if you’re keen to do serious renovations, there is an important principle you must understand. It’s the basis of all feasibility studies and it’s called highest and best use. Just like smart businesses try and maximise the return on their assets, so should you…
The federal government advised last week that over 121,000 people had applied for grants under its $2.5 billion HomeBuilder scheme, which closed at the end of March. It is estimated that around 80% or just under 100,000 of these grants we issued for new builds. The government has now given builders until 30th September 2022…
House building activity continues to soar off the back of the now-defunct federal government HomeBuilder initiative. Latest ABS data reports that capital city building approvals for houses increased by 36.4% over February to a new record monthly high of 8,697. Over the first two months of this year, approvals for new houses have skyrocketed by…
In these changing times when property investors can no longer count on double digit price growth many are considering getting started in property development to help them ‘manufacture’ some capital growth. In fact one of the most read blogs on this site is How to Get Started in Property Development. It all sounds so simple. So…
As a property developer I choose the suburbs where I undertake developments very carefully. If I’m planning to undertake a development to sell at a profit (something I don’t do anymore – I’m a long term holder of the properties I develop) I look for very different criteria than if I’m planning to hold the…
