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 Jul 2013
HIA calls for another rate cut
A further reduction in the official cash rate would have a positive effect on residential building and the wider economy, the Housing Industry Association (HIA) has...
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Finance • 25 Jul 2013
Property values up 3.8pc last financial year
The question is, what does this mean for investing?
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Finance • 24 Jul 2013
Consumer sentiment stronger as housing finance increases
Gross spending on housing finance has increased by 17.1 per cent, according to the PRDnationwide Research Quarterly Economic Property Report.
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Finance • 19 Jul 2013
Infrastructure underpinning buyer interest
One Sydney suburb has seen increased property interest due to significant new infrastructure projects, according to PRDnationwide’s research department.
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Finance • 15 Jul 2013
No certainty of further rate cuts
The case for fixing your loan is becoming increasingly compelling, with figures at an attractive level and no certainty of further cuts according to Smartline Personal...
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Finance • 12 Jul 2013
Investors Ask: Equity investing
Q. My partner and I have paid off our family home and would like to purchase an investment property? Is it a wise idea to borrow on the family home or should we save a...
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Finance • 11 Jul 2013
Is now the time to fix rates?
Everyone seems to be asking the million dollar question at the moment: is now a good time to fix my debt?
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Finance • 11 Jul 2013
Owner financing in the USA
One of the ways I built my portfolio in the USA property market was via owner financing. It is a little different to the Australian way to do it, but here are some great...
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Finance • 08 Jul 2013
Clearance rates spark seller's market
With auction clearance rates around the country rising, it’s quickly becoming a seller’s market according to the director of wHeregroup, Todd Hunter.
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Finance • 08 Jul 2013
Fixed interest rates account for 25pc of loans
The latest home lending figures show that property investors as well as owner occupiers are now locking into fixed home loan rates in near record numbers.
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