All Entries Tagged With: "invest in property"

Property Optimism

I don’t know about where you live but there seems to be a certain amount of optimism in property at the moment.  In the south east Queensland area there appears to have been more properties selling in this last month and there also seems to be a heightened interest in investing again.
Overseas financial negotiations seem [...]

Property Management Strategies

I have often addressed property management and some of the problems that it presents but yesterday I read another point of view which I thought was worth mentioning.
I have always been a believer that it is better to outsource your property management, letting people who know their business do what they should be good at, [...]

Understanding Property Investment Abbreviations

I thought you might like to see some of the abbreviations for property investment so that when you are reading through the various articles you will not be left wondering what they are referring to:
AAPR – annualised average percentage rate, or often referred to the comparison rate.  This figure includes all costs associated with the [...]

What would have done differently over the past 10 years if you had those years again?

I have been reading comments in a real estate forum about how one would have done things differently in property investment  if they had those 10 years again.
The most common thread was to “educate”.  Another very strong response was to not sit and wait but get into the property investing market as quickly and as [...]

Is it time for you to enter the property investment market?

Just about anywhere involving property investing at the moment you will see reports that investors are re-entering the market.But will this make a rush on the lower end of the market.Not likely, because in 2009 the lower end of the market was hit heavily with the First Home Owners grant which kept the market tight [...]

Checking on your credit report

Image by jessica mullen via Flickr

Don’t allow your world to be turned upside down by fraud.
Keeping up with your credit report is a good thing for many different reasons, especially when you are a property investor  and some of these are covered below.
Financial lenders get printouts of your credit file whenever you seek additional finance, [...]

Consider Debt Consolidation

With interest rates still at a relatively low level now it may be the time to consider debt consolidation.  If you have car loans, credit cards or other small debts, now might be the time to put them all in one low interest rate loan.
There really only seems to be one way for interest rates [...]