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Where should I buy my next investment property? If I had a dollar for every time I was asked that question, I’d retire a rich man…never mind the property portfolio! But when it comes to purchasing residential real estate investments, there are generally two different approaches. One will succeed at all stages of the property…
As with any type of long-term wealth creation vehicle, real estate comes with its own set of cautionary tales about the potential hazards and pitfalls. Many things can go wrong and the risk is amplified if you leap in without first seeking professional advice and devising a sound strategy and investment plan. But does that…
Sydney’s property market has been the central focus of the real estate industry in recent years… Particularly as it is Australia’s largest property market where median house prices soared into the seven figures in 2015. But now that the Harbour City market has moved to the next phase with slow growth in some locations, no growth in others…
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,…
One of the questions I’m frequently asked when it comes to people seeking property investment advice is, ‘Should I buy a house or an apartment?’ Many beginning investors are under the impression that houses make a better investment because they’ve read or heard that the land component of property increases in value, while the building…
Melbourne is exploding and growing by 125,000 people a year It’s the world’s 4th fastest growing developed city and it’s like adding a city the size of Ballarat to Melbourne every 12 months. The ABC report that it’s projected to be Australia’s biggest city by as early as 2028. And by 2050, it will have…
I’m a little worried about the Melbourne property market. Now that’s probably not something you expected to hear from me, especially since I’ve added another six Melbourne investment properties to my portfolio in the last few years alone, but the truth is…. I am a little worried. And it’s not the current slowdown we’re experiencing that…
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…
Successful investors learn as much from their mistakes as they do from their successes, whereas the average Australian seems to make the same financial errors over and over again, and wonders why things don’t change. To help place you in that successful group, let’s have a look at nine of the most common financial mistakes…
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