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 • 31 Oct 2017
How this property investor keeps track of the numbers in his portfolio
Since beginning his property investment journey ten years ago, William Leung has made it a point to keep an updated spreadsheet detailing all significant information...
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Finance • 27 Oct 2017
6 ways to increase your yield in a tough market
As the old saying goes, “Don’t bring me problems, bring me solutions”. And, as property investors, there’s one big problem facing most of us at this stage of the...
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Finance • 26 Oct 2017
How this property investor started creating wealth at 18
Jack Henderson bought his first property—a two-bedder in Coogee worth $720,000—when he was 18 years old and fresh from his first job. Three years later, he’s well...
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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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