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Just because you’ve taken the leap from homeowner to property investor, doesn’t mean your financial fortune is assured. In fact, it doesn’t even mean that you will start making a profit in the short term, or that you are on your way to owning a sizeable portfolio. The reality is around 20% of those who…
Sydney’s property market has been the central focus of the real estate industry lately… Particularly as Australia’s largest property market is on the move again having recorded its quickest turnaround in decades. Since bottoming out after the election in May 2019, Sydney dwelling values have recovered by 11.2%. Sydney house prices increased 1.5% over the month…
When it comes time to make big financial decisions, research consistently shows that women more frequently hold the purse strings than men. While this is a positive finding, as women tend to make smart, thoughtful, informed financial decisions, it also has the potential to drop an anchor in your investment portfolio’s growth. If you’ve ever…
Today I would like to share a memory from when I was still a novice investor. One of my early mentors taught me that the four most dangerous words a property investor could say was… “This time it’s different.” Unfortunately I ignored his advice in my early days of investing to my detriment, as I…
After all these years in property I’m still surprised at how investors decide which property to buy, but it doesn’t surprise me why so many don’t get past their first or second property. You see… many buy for emotional reasons and while others think they’re investing in property, for some they’re really speculating. By definition,…
I know that many property investors are a little intimidated by the thought of bidding for a property at auction. I can understand why auctions are an emotional and exciting event. Even after bidding at hundreds of auctions I must admit I still get that surge of adrenaline every time I bid. Then of course…
Have you wondered how many investment properties you would need for financial freedom? I’ve found that while most property investors hope to one day replace their personal exertion income with cash from their investment properties, most don’t have a strategy to achieve their goal. So just how many properties does it take to enable you…
Last year I had a great year as a property investor. Not because the real estate markets went gangbusters – although they more than held there own where I was investing – but because about a year ago I made it a personal goal to pay attention to fewer things. Fewer forecasts, fewer predictions, fewer breaking news headlines….
One thing this latest buzz of investor activity in the property market has demonstrated yet again is that some newcomers to the real estate game still insist on going in blind. These first timers operate under the assumption that any property makes a good investment and that if things don’t quite pan out, well you…
One of the significant changes to occur in Australian cities over the past 50 years, which has pushed up inner and middle-ring suburb property values, is gentrification. Interestingly this wasn’t caused by deliberate planning policy, but resulted from a set of demographic changes that occurred in most major capital cities around the world, and especially in the inner-ring of city suburbs. Gentrifiers were…
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