All Entries Tagged With: "Property Investment"
Property Investing? Don’t Be Shy
After many, many months of bouncing backwards and forwards it does seem that confidence is returning to the market place and property investors should be getting prepared to purchase again if they intend to life off their property investments in retirement.
Property investors have most definitely gone through the hard times like many homeowners and business [...]
Planning On Selling Your Investment Property This Summer?
So you have decided to sell your investment property but you have decided it is looking a bit drab compared to others on the market. As you have probably noticed, there is plenty of competition out there so what are you going to do to make your property stand out against the others on [...]
Property Investment Forums Share Experiences
Join a property investment forum and share your views.
If you Google ‘Australian Property Investment Forum’ you will discover a number of forums to join where you can discuss your investment …
Positively Geared Investment Property
A positively geared property means that at the end of the month, after all expenses have been paid (loan repayments, management fees, and all other property expenses), you still have money left …
Landlord Insurance Should Never Be Forgotten
When do you take out insurance?
As soon as your offer is accepted you should take out building insurance on the property. Even though you have not settled on the property you have a binding …
Renovations Are The Order Of the Day
Times are still tough out there in the business world and with all this uncertainty anything to do with finances seems to have stagnated. What always seems to happen in the housing industry in times like this is renovation rather than selling and buying again.
I am sure you know a number of people who are [...]
Buying In Apartment Blocks
If you are going to purchase a unit property, even if there are only 2 units on the property, you will have to deal with a body corporate. The contract for purchase of a unit is different than …
Creating Wealth As A Property Investor
Creating enough wealth as a property investor to be able to provide you income in retirement takes a serious amount of planning.
One fact that I am sure you have become aware of if you have been reading about property investing for some time is that there are many different strategies to property investing. By ‘many [...]
Why Do You Invest In Real Estate?
This question popped into my mind and you know, it spawned a lot of new thoughts.
When we take on new projects in our lives we do so because we have got excited about changing the way things are for us at the present time. It could be that we start an exercise campaign, a lose [...]
Finding Tenants For A Vacant Rental Property
Although Australia in general is experiencing a low vacancy rate, a landlord does need to be aware of the fact that a vacant property is costing them a lot of money, and I am sure most landlords do know that.
But if a property is reasonably consistently vacant for some time then perhaps it would be [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Is Toowoomba Your Next Investment Project
The pundits are saying that the Toowoomba region will be the next regional area to shine. This could be the place for your next property investment.
Why? Well, Toowoomba is a town on the move. During the drought this was a town that had virtually come to a standstill but now with increased industrial development, the [...]


