Finance Tips and Insights - Smart Property Investment

Property investment is often regarded as a game of finance. Here’s how you can best understand the financing options and strategies to suit your portfolio.
Curtis Stewart read icon 1 min read
Finance • 04 Jan 2018
Would renting out your home help you to grow an investment portfolio?
Curtis Stewart explores how deciding to rent out your current house may impact your servicing position and how lender calculators apply different buffers, changing your...
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Finance • 20 Dec 2017
How property investors can tap into ‘special deals’
Recent changes in guidelines pertaining to loans and interest rates set up by the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) has brought about a ‘softening’...
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Curtis Stewart read icon 2 min read
Finance • 19 Dec 2017
How diversifying can allow you to take advantage of opportunities in all property cycles
A key decision investors face when they are growing a portfolio is whether or not they diversify into different locations.
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Property investors, competition, game, property market, investing, investment read icon 4 min read
Finance • 15 Dec 2017
How property investors can stay in the game despite 'softening markets'
Recent changes in the vast landscape of property investment have considerably slowed down the market in the past few months—is this good news or bad news for both new...
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Tough, Australian property market, property investors, mortgage broker, investments read icon 3 min read
Finance • 14 Dec 2017
Has the Australian property market grown 'tougher'?
Seasoned property investors and property professionals alike agree that it continues to become harder to get finance and build a substantial portfolio in today’s...
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Finance • 13 Dec 2017
How pergolas can increase the value of a property
A well-maintained home is one that doesn’t decrease in value and there are ways to increase the overall value of your property with a few simple additions, one of...
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Drew Evans read icon 2 min read
Finance • 12 Dec 2017
The key to portfolio growth in the coming low growth environment: Creating equity
Looking at the conditions, it’s obvious that 2018 is not going to be a year of massive property growth. Investors who are dependent on market growth for their equity...
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Property prices, countercyclical buffers, property management, property market, house prices read icon 2 min read
Finance • 11 Dec 2017
APRA claims property prices have signalled risk for ‘some time’
The regulator believes it can successfully cool house prices and contain risk without relying on countercyclical buffers.
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Different valuation techniques to help you unlock equity and grow your portfolio read icon 2 min read
Finance • 08 Dec 2017
Different valuation techniques to help you unlock equity and grow your portfolio
Curtis Stewart of Confidence Finance explores how using different deposit sizes and getting the best possible valuation result can help investors grow their portfolio...
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Finance • 08 Dec 2017
How property investors can enjoy dealing with the numbers
Even if he carries relevant background in finance and economics, 27-year-old investor Curtis Stewart knows that the secret to actually enjoying property investment is...
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