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…
Where to buy investment property
Knowing where to buy property is the difference between a successful property investor
and a poor one.
It doesn’t matter what your budget is, you need to ensure you choose locations that will offer long-term
investments.
Remember, not every property is a smart investment. So we’ve found the best industry experts to guide you through
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Where to buy your next investment property
- Why location is only one of the key factors you should look for
- We look at where you SHOULDN’T buy
- What’s the right property for this stage of the property cycle?
- Why you should avoid “hotspots”
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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,…
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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…