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Summer is Property Selling Season

Summer is Property Selling Season

Selling investment properties is not always the easiest task to undertake but with some careful planning and communication it can get a positive result.
No matter what property is sold, whether it is a home, an investment property, in the city, in a rural area or wherever, a property should have a face-lift before going on [...]

Taking An Investment Property To Auction

Taking An Investment Property To Auction

Is it a good idea to take an investment property to auction?  Like most scenarios there are positive and negative aspects of doing so.
Getting finance before auction
There is no doubt that finance is more difficult to get now than it was 2 years ago   and therefore buyers find it difficult to buy.   There [...]

Do You Suffer From "Analysis Paralysis"?

Do You Suffer From “Analysis Paralysis”?

Did you realise that most property investors do not grow rich from real estate investing? Often the reason is because they go through the “Analysis paralysis” syndrome.
This comes about because they are uncertain of their decisions and the reasons they are uncertain of their decisions is because they do not have enough knowledge about what [...]

Deciding On Your Exit Strategy Before Buying Investment Property

Deciding On Your Exit Strategy Before Buying Investment Property

That’s right, when using property investing to create wealth, each and every investment property purchase should have an investment property exit strategy outlined before the purchase takes place.
You might ask why would an investor do this.  Well, everything you purchase in life has an end date.
Think about it! Whether you buy a bottle of milk, [...]

Renovating Investment Properties and Where To Buy

Renovating Investment Properties and Where To Buy

Renovating properties is a very popular strategy for making extra money when property investing.  Many investors will renovate and rent for a higher rent which is a good way to increase capital growth and also receive that higher rent, but also some property investors like to renovate and flip the house as soon as it [...]

Buying and Selling Investment Properties

Buying and Selling Investment Properties

Buyers and sellers of investment properties need to keep in touch with their agents.
Most buyers and sellers would take it for granted that a real estate agent would immediately let them know if a sale had fallen over, or they would hear reasonably soon from their solicitor, but that is not always the case.
This scenario [...]

Hands On Property Investing Experience

Hands On Property Investing Experience

We would all like to think that after some serious research and doing our homework that we could invest in real estate and continually move forward with wealth creation, but in the real world it does not happen that way.
There is one truth in this world and that is: “nothing ever stays the same”.
When you [...]

Weighing Up Your Investment Vehicle

Weighing Up Your Investment Vehicle

Investors are always weighing up whether they should invest in shares or in property, and so they should.
It most certainly would not be prudent for any investor to look at one vehicle for creating wealth, but what they use to create that wealth is another question altogether.
Often investors will go with what they know and [...]

Property Managment Forms for Landlords

Property Managment Forms for Landlords

Taking on the responsibility as a landlord.
Buying an investment property is so much more than having an ‘investment’. when a decision is made to become a landlord it is important that all the responsibility that goes with it is taken care of.
Finding the right Property Manager
This is a task in itself which is really a [...]

Global Real Estate Investments Up

Global Real Estate Investments Up

Research from global capital markets experts, Jones Lang LaSalle, has found that preliminary global direct commercial real estate investment volumes for the second quarter of 2010 are nearly double that of the same quarter last year.
In actual fact the finding for the second quarter is very similar to that of the first quarter of 2010, [...]