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.
The secret to borrowing more of the banks money read icon 2 min read
Finance • 10 Nov 2017
The secret to borrowing more of the banks money
Promoted by Confidence Finance. For most property investors, your borrowing power is the single most important factor in determining the potential property portfolio...
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Rate disparity between rates, interest-only, principal interest rates read icon 2 min read
Finance • 08 Nov 2017
Why is there a rate disparity between interest-only and principal interest rates?
Following the amendments to lending regulations implemented by the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) to slow down the influx of people coming into the...
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Pay down debt, interest rate hikes, read icon 3 min read
Finance • 07 Nov 2017
Amid possible interest rate hikes: Pay down debt instead of leveraging
Economists have recently been working with property experts and professionals to forecast the possible scenarios should interest rates start to hike following the...
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RBA announces cash rate for November read icon 2 min read
Finance • 07 Nov 2017
RBA announces cash rate for November
The Reserve Bank of Australia has announced the cash rate for November, following its monthly board meeting.
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How to Finance a Multi-Million Dollar Portfolio in One Picture read icon 4 min read
Finance • 07 Nov 2017
How to Finance a Multi-Million Dollar Portfolio in One Picture
Promoted by Confidence Finance. It’s no secret that growing a property investment portfolio requires as much of the banks money as possible.  The question is how...
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Negative gearing, mortgage stress, and foreign investment driving unsustainable property read icon 2 min read
Finance • 06 Nov 2017
Negative gearing, mortgage stress and foreign investment driving unsustainable property
According to one expert, the current state of housing affordability stems from tax incentives such as negative gearing, in addition to current first home buyer grants,...
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Mortgage read icon 3 min read
Finance • 05 Nov 2017
How ‘incompatible’ mortgage brokers almost derailed these property investors’ journey
Like many property investors, husband-and-wife Brendon and Courtney realised the importance of a reliable financial team in the pursuit of success in the business of...
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Stress-free tips, good investor, sucess in investing, investment read icon 2 min read
Finance • 03 Nov 2017
3 simple stress-free tips to become a good investor
Investor William Leung shares one of the most effective ways to achieve success in investing is also one of the simplest: ”Just don’t be stressed.”
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James Mitchell, Mortgages, Aleks Vickovich, Wealth read icon 1 min read
Finance • 03 Nov 2017
The impact the major banks are leaving on investors
Phil Tarrant welcomes Momentum Media’s managing editors of wealth, Aleks Vickovich, and mortgages,  James Mitchell, to talk politics, power poverty, rebalancing...
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mistakes in investing, investment, property market, property portfolio read icon 3 min read
Finance • 02 Nov 2017
How ‘mistakes’ led to a four-property portfolio
Since beginning their property investment journey in 2015, husband-and-wife Brendon and Courtney have carried with them the lessons they have learned through each of...
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