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 • 29 Feb 2012
Investors must look beyond rates
Investors should be looking beyond the interest rate and putting loan features, fees and their financial objectives higher up the priority list, according to a...
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Finance • 28 Feb 2012
Strong clearance rate posted in South East Qld
Interest rate movements haven’t deterred buyers in South East Queensland, with an independent auctioneering company reporting a 61 per cent finalised clearance rate...
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Finance • 28 Feb 2012
Out of cycle rate hike to hurt investors
Australia’s major banks are putting profits before people, Debt Rescue operations manager Rachael Witton has claimed.
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Finance • 23 Feb 2012
Mortgage arrears remain steady
Loans underlying Australian prime residential mortgage-backed securities rose slightly in October 2011, the latest report by Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services has...
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Finance • 22 Feb 2012
Recent first home buyers dominate refinancing
More than 45 per cent of first home buyers that entered the property market less than two years ago will look to refinance this year, new research has revealed.
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Finance • 16 Feb 2012
Interest rates can shift at any time
Borrowers finding that interest rate movements have come as a surprise should take this as a signal that interest rates could shift at any time, according to a mortgage...
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Finance • 16 Feb 2012
More out of cycle rate hikes to come
The majors' recent out of cycle rate movement could be the first of many, one industry stakeholder has claimed.
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Finance • 14 Feb 2012
Independent rate hikes could impact investor activity
The decision by Australia’s major banks to move rates independently of the Reserve Bank could have an adverse impact on home lending, the Housing Industry...
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Finance • 14 Feb 2012
Rocky relationship with debt
Losing financial assets, such as property, is not the only thing at risk from having an unhealthy relationship with debt, according to a new survey.
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Finance • 13 Feb 2012
Westpac mirrors ANZ, lifts rates
Moments after ANZ announced it would raise its rates independently of the Reserve Bank, Westpac followed suit.
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