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.
The rate that stops the nation read icon 1 min read
Finance • 01 Nov 2022
The rate that stops the nation
The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) has handed down its penultimate cash rate decision for 2022.
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Property Finance Uncut: Aussie borrowers hammered again – can rates go any higher? read icon 1 min read
Finance • 01 Nov 2022
Property Finance Uncut: Aussie borrowers hammered again – can rates go any higher?
While the Reserve Bank’s rate hike trajectory is painting a grim horror story for mortgage holders, these experts say there’s strategic ways to beat the financial...
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Why investors shouldn’t be overly concerned with interest rates read icon 1 min read
Finance • 29 Oct 2022
Why investors shouldn’t be overly concerned with interest rates
One Sydney property veteran has urged buyers to widen their financial focus at this time beyond interest rate rises. 
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Is another double-whammy rate rise on the way? The banks weigh in read icon 2 min read
Finance • 29 Oct 2022
Is another double-whammy rate rise on the way? The banks weigh in
Ahead of the Reserve Bank of Australia’s (RBA) monthly board meeting on Melbourne Cup Day, Australia’s big four banks have forecast where the cash rate will land...
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WA approves home owner insurance reforms read icon 1 min read
Finance • 22 Oct 2022
WA approves home owner insurance reforms
The McGowan government doubles its maximum payouts for home owners affected by builder insolvencies.
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Finance • 21 Oct 2022
Buying a 2nd home: How does its equity work?
Everybody wants to be in the best possible financial position when buying a home.
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Rent increases stall despite vacancy rates at record lows read icon 2 min read
Finance • 12 Oct 2022
Rent increases stall despite vacancy rates at record lows
CoreLogic’s Quarterly Rental Review for Q3 2022 indicates that vacancy rates continue to plummet, this time reaching record lows.
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Why buyers should beware of lower property prices read icon 1 min read
Finance • 11 Oct 2022
Why buyers should beware of lower property prices
The Australian dream of entering the property market doesn’t come with a “magic rule as to when to enter and exit the property market”, an expert has shared. 
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Construction costs hit 20-year high with no reprieve in sight read icon 2 min read
Finance • 11 Oct 2022
Construction costs hit 20-year high with no reprieve in sight
New data from CoreLogic for the third quarter of 2022 has indicated the severity of the construction cost crisis plaguing Australia.
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Mortgage prison looms with Sydney prices set to drop nearly 200k read icon 1 min read
Finance • 08 Oct 2022
Mortgage prison looms with Sydney prices set to drop nearly 200k
Since peaking in January 2022, Sydney’s house prices have declined significantly, and new data from RateCity predict this trend to continue through to next year’s...
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