All Entries Tagged With: "property portfolio"
Interest rates up again, no surprise really – Tax Variation
Rising Interest rates and Tax Variation
The fact that interest rates were put up again this week didn’t surprise too many people given the fact that there was not an interest rate rise in February. Property investors need to be prepared for this as there will probably be a few more this year. View our stategies [...]
Short term rental can be cash flow positive
Australia has just passed through the busy holiday season and now is the time to give some thought to whether short-term (holiday) rental or long term rental would be a benefit to your property portfolio. Holiday homes near the beach (best for overseas visitors) or in good holiday locations are the best to use for [...]
How The Current Market Will Affect The Future Prices
The economic crisis caused several things to happen which will have an impact for property investors for years to come. Changes that have and will affect house prices in the next several years:
Government First Home Owners Grant
Substantially less land being developed and released
Property prices will go up and this [...]
Insurance For Property Investors
During tough financial times it is a fact that insurance is one item that people will cut back on when struggling to meet commitments so I thought I would like to just go over insurance from a property investor’s point of view and emphasise the importance of having property insurance and landlord insurance.
As a [...]
Display Home Investment Properties for Lease Back
Two display homes for sale in Melbourne
The rental return is a guaranteed return of 7% for a minimum of 12mths up to a possible 5yrs! This is dependent upon how quick the land in the area sells out. Plus the builder does all of the maintenance during the ‘rent back’ period and before handing over [...]
An Interesting List Of 10 Towns Touted For Property Investing
Terry Ryder, real estate researcher, believes that investors should stay away from ‘pure mining towns’ for the time being. He believes that to focus on “strategically located regional centres that were set to benefit from major new projects” would be the place to look at investing. Although mining towns have the opportunity to have big [...]
Aussie Economy Is Set For A Rebound
Frank Gelber, chief economist for BIS Schrapnel said recently at a conference in Brisbane that Australia was in the middle of a shallow but protracted downturn and it would be expected that the economywould still remain weak even through 2010.
He also indicated that it would be followed by a strong three stage rebound:
1. Firstly there [...]
Property Risk Management Strategies
Check out your property risk management and have less stress.
A certain amount of stress can be just what we need to make us ‘get our act together’ and do certain jobs – in other words it can be a strong motivator.
Too much stress however, can have the opposite affect and be totally debilitating, even to [...]
Purchasing Property For Securing Your Financial Future
If you have never owned investment property before or in fact focused on building your financial wealth through any means, it can be a little difficult to envisage a future where you really are worth several million dollars.
Why this point has come up is because many investors feel proud, and rightly so, to own one [...]
Are You Buying More Properties?
There is much ado about propery finance at the moment, whether it is best to start fixing rates or not and once again even the ‘experts’ have varied opinions.
You will hear the same old adage that ‘everybody’s circumstances are different’ and of course they are. At this point you may want to start looking to [...]
