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 • 19 Feb 2014
Paying your mortgage fortnightly
Paying off a mortgage as quickly as possible is a goal for many Australians and making the switch to fortnightly repayments can save you money in interest repayments as...
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Finance • 17 Feb 2014
Low interest rates delivering new building boom in Australia
Low interest rates over the last eighteen months are now beginning to have a major impact on the residential building sector with building construction now rising...
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Finance • 17 Feb 2014
How an equity guarantor can help with your deposit
Having trouble getting together a deposit for your first investment property? An equity guarantor may be the way to go.
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Finance • 10 Feb 2014
Gold Coast vacancy rate plummets
The Gold Coast’s rental market is experiencing its lowest rate of vacancy in more than a decade, according to property analyst Paul Broad.
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Finance • 10 Feb 2014
Investor home loans top a record $9.3 billion
The growing confidence in the Australian property market is underlined by the latest ABS lending figures which show lending to investors has now reached a record high.
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Finance • 04 Feb 2014
RBA Rate Announcement - February 2014
The Reserve Bank of Australia has announced the outcome of its first board meeting of the year.
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Finance • 04 Feb 2014
NSW borrowers winners in rate war
New South Wales property buyers will be the biggest beneficiaries if rates continue to fall in 2014, according to one of Australia’s largest comparison websites.
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Finance • 03 Feb 2014
Ensuring you're finance ready at auction
Stephanie Cook - Mortgage Choice
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Finance • 23 Jan 2014
Cash rate should remain steady until late 2014: AMP
Higher than expected inflation and a fall in the Australian dollar in 2013 has substantially reduced the possibility of another cash rate cut, according to a leading...
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Finance • 22 Jan 2014
Redraw or offset account: What's the difference?
Both can save you money and pay off your home loan faster but which is the right choice for you?
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