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.
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Finance • 26 Oct 2017
What keeps investors up at night and which professionals do they turn to?
The results of an investor survey have shown the things that worry investors the most, along with the most in-demand experts investors are seeking.
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Finance • 26 Oct 2017
The pros and cons of fixing your rate
If there’s one decision that can stress you out as an investor, it’s whether to make your mortgage variable or fixed.
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Finance • 26 Oct 2017
Rate rises will lead to ‘major adjustment’ in housing market: Westpac
Westpac’s chief economist Bill Evans predicts that if the RBA lifts the cash rate, the housing market will change severely.
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Finance • 25 Oct 2017
This investor reveals when he plans to stop investing in real estate
The 21-year-old property investor Jack Henderson, who’s well on his way to buying his third investment property, couldn’t care less about the number of properties he...
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Finance • 25 Oct 2017
APRA keen to 'step back from' investor lending restrictions
Restrictions placed on investors were only meant to be “temporary”, APRA’s chairman said, as the restrictions might have unintentionally caused additional...
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Finance • 24 Oct 2017
How knowing the ‘market trajectory’ could lead to property investment success
Many property investors often get dejected the moment they find out that they overpaid for an investment, but Right Property Group’s Victor Kumar and Steve Waters...
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Finance • 24 Oct 2017
How this young investor start his investment journey without inspiration
Jack Henderson was only 18 when he bought his first investment property, which is a $720,000-worth two-bedroom unit in Coogee, after spending roughly three years saving...
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Finance • 20 Oct 2017
Making the leap from the first property to the second one: How this investor did it
Jacqui Zielinski’s first investment property did not work out as well as she had expected, but that did not stop her from seeking a second investment and, eventually,...
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Finance • 20 Oct 2017
What this ex-banker learnt from dealing with owners of massive property portfolios
Jacqui Zielinski started investing in property at the age of 19, and years after she dropped out of college, she got a job at an accounting firm and became a lending...
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Finance • 19 Oct 2017
$3 million and 10 properties later: A property investor shares her greatest pride and biggest regret
Since buying her first investment property at 19, Jacqui Zielinski has successfully built a 10-property portfolio with assets spread across Australia—all amounting to...
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