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.
5 Savings tips to pay your mortgages off sooner read icon 3 min read
Finance • 20 Jan 2017
5 savings tips to pay your mortgage off sooner
Paying off a mortgage as quickly as possible reaps many benefits – hundreds of thousands of them, actually!
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Case study - Buy property with borrowings read icon 2 min read
Finance • 19 Jan 2017
Case study - Buy property with borrowings
Promoted by esuperfund Buying property with borrowings could require a great deal of preparation and ongoing attention to ensure that the various SMSF regulations are...
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Mortgage holders need to ‘review their home loan’ read icon 1 min read
Finance • 18 Jan 2017
Mortgage holders need to ‘review their home loan’
Lenders have investors in their sights with out-of-cycle interest rate movement, says one mortgage expert.
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Mortgages ‘not expensive relative to rent’, finds bank read icon 3 min read
Finance • 16 Jan 2017
Mortgages ‘not expensive relative to rent’, finds bank
Rental payments are taking up a greater proportion of household income, while mortgage payments remain in line with the historical average, which could boost housing...
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Finance • 11 Jan 2017
Securing debt as a property investor
Jeremy Iannuzzelli has nine properties to his name before he turned 30—a success he attributes to a property professional who guided him through his journey, as well...
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Finance • 11 Jan 2017
Property Investment Tip: Forget FOMO, this is how you balance leisure and responsibility
The rise of social media - among other factors - has given rise to so-called FOMO, which may explain why people tend to be consumed by the need to show off instead...
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Young, affluent borrowers most exposed to rate rises read icon 1 min read
Finance • 11 Jan 2017
Young, affluent borrowers most exposed to rate rises
Owner-occupied mortgage holders that are young and affluent are more exposed to incremental interest rate rises than any other group of borrowers, new analysis has...
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Rates set to rise further in 2017 read icon 1 min read
Finance • 11 Jan 2017
Rates set to rise further in 2017
Looking ahead to 2017, a rate rise may be on the cards for Australia.  
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5 ways to achieve your financial goals in 2017 read icon 3 min read
Finance • 04 Jan 2017
5 ways to achieve your financial goals in 2017
What didn't you achieve in 2016? What can you do this year to catch up? Here are five tips to get you off to a good start for 2017.
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Clearance rates stay high as year comes to an end read icon 2 min read
Finance • 23 Dec 2016
Clearance rates stay high as year comes to an end
The final week of auction reporting for the year sees the combined capital city clearance rate remain above 70 per cent, while auction volumes continue their seasonal...
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