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Useful property tips for investors. (and some story time)
CAN BUYING A HOLIDAY HOME MAKE FINANCIAL SENSE? AN HONEST GUIDE TO THE PROS AND CONS OF SHORT TERM HOLIDAY LETTING… AND 13 WAYS TO MAXIMISE YOUR RETURNS.
You might have felt it on your last holiday. The peace and quiet, the sun and the waves (or swap for a good book looking over a winery or paddock if that is more your scene). Ah the serenity...if only you could bottle this and own it. In fact, the real...
PIGS IN MUD… FEAR AND OTHER MUSINGS.
I have to be honest, it’s a strange time in the East Coast property markets. THE VIBE: The truth is… thinking about buying property right now feels a bit interesting… 2019 is probably the MOST CONFUSING time in Australian property for uneducated buyers in years....
SMOKE, MIRRORS AND THE ROYAL COMMISSION… WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW FOLLOWING THE RECENT R.C. REPORT.
If you are a property investor, then perhaps you felt it… (Warning Rant ahead) it was like being under a dark cloud, with the threat of a big stick (possibly hidden in that cloud) for all of 2018. The royal commission hung over property markets and the finance...
6 FACTORS TO CONSIDER IF INVESTING IN AUSTRALIAN PROPERTY BEFORE MAY 2019.
If you are a property investor you would have to have been hiding under a rock not to have noticed the changes over the last 12 months. From FOMO (fear of missing out) to FOBO (fear of missing better options) the urgency has gone out of the market and many buyers are...
THE ROAD (LESS?) TRAVELLED TO THE SOUTH COAST & 4 REASONS TO CONSIDER INFRASTRUCTURE LED PROPERTY INVESTING IN 2018 & 2019:
Now that the Sydney and Melbourne property booms are over… many investors are wondering what next for property markets? Add the fact that finance is not as easy to get is it used to be with the royal commission currently making the banks tightening their lending...
PINS IN STRAWBERRIES AND FEAR IN REAL ESTATE
I feel bad for the farmers. A few bad apples (sorry - fruit pun) put pins in strawberries and we had instant fear over one of our most loved fruits. The property market is a little more complicated than that but only just. There is a lot of fear in the media...
TAXATION… WAIT! DON’T STOP READING. FREE STUFF INSIDE
Yawn... many of us hate tax. Or are at least bored by it. (sorry to the few details people I just offended) But what if I said the 3 minutes you take to read this could be worth $3000? $6000? more? With tax returns due at the end of the month (if you lodge with...
MAY MARKET?
I have a few semi-related bits to post - so I will break things up. I will send the market update today and the "part 2" (technical term I know) in a few days. Market Update. Short version - the south coast is humming along. RP Data and Your...
PROPERTY MANAGEMENT – GOOD, BAD, UGLY
Have you heard the (familiar) horror story? Nightmare tenant stops defaults on rent, trashes property, invites squatters, devalues home, upsets neighbours and ruins cashflow putting investor into financial stress because they still have a mortgage to pay….that...
5 THINGS MUM TAUGHT ME ABOUT PROPERTY DATA
DISCLAIMER: This is not my actual mother. She would be horrified if I put her photo up here so you get this lame GIF instead. Mum doesn't even look like a bit like this. Sorry mum. I love my mum. She taught me a lot. Especially about Property...
A SELFIE? REALLY?
Why would Matt send out a SELFIE? ...when our feeds are chock full of them. It’s not even very good. Or interesting. (and WOW my head is shiny) Ok - story time. You see the other day I was in the city walking - when I stopped. I had a moment. I took...
ME IN THE MEDIA – APPARENTLY.
So this morning I was hunting away (glamourous work I know, I do quite a bit of that) for a block of land for a small developer I and working for, and the phone rings...it was a journalist. Apparently a phone interview done months ago went to print and I...