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.
Warning issued as Sunshine State scams snatch would-be tenant bonds read icon 1 min read
Finance • 31 Aug 2022
Warning issued as Sunshine State scams snatch would-be tenant bonds
A spate of Sunshine Coast rental scams that have emerged this past week highlight the ever-constant threat of cyber crime.
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Queensland property scheme operator pleads guilty to fraud read icon 1 min read
Finance • 26 Aug 2022
Queensland property scheme operator pleads guilty to fraud
Pensioners were among those targeted by the scam, which saw some victims borrow against their homes to invest in Tasmanian property developments. 
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Tax-exempt landlords in for a shock under Qld’s new regime read icon 2 min read
Finance • 25 Aug 2022
Tax-exempt landlords in for a shock under Qld’s new regime
Changes to Queensland’s tax code that will charge investors land tax based on the value of their entire Australian portfolios regardless of location have broad...
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3 in 4 home owners gripped with mortgage anxiety amid rising rates, report shows read icon 3 min read
Finance • 24 Aug 2022
3 in 4 home owners gripped with mortgage anxiety amid rising rates, report shows
Rising rates are causing an increasing number of Aussies to feel anxious about their mortgages, a new report has revealed, with almost 30 per cent of property owners now...
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Should your rate stay fixed or move to variable? read icon 1 min read
Finance • 24 Aug 2022
Should your rate stay fixed or move to variable?
Suncorp became the 15th lender to cut its fixed home loan rate in August, which begs the question — should borrowers fix or stay variable?
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How brokers could form referral partnerships with advisers read icon 3 min read
Finance • 22 Aug 2022
How brokers could form referral partnerships with advisers
A mortgage brokerage has pushed brokers to target specific markets when forming referral partnerships with financial advisers.
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Riding the property rollercoaster until 2024? Here’s what’s in store read icon 2 min read
Finance • 20 Aug 2022
Riding the property rollercoaster until 2024? Here’s what’s in store
New price forecasting has aimed to illuminate where property values will rest by the end of next year and beyond.
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South Australian higher education grads get a leg up read icon 1 min read
Finance • 11 Aug 2022
South Australian higher education grads get a leg up
 South Australia has adjusted one of its programs to help home buyers access financing with less than a 20 per cent deposit.
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No smoke and mirrors, BS or bias read icon 3 min read
Finance • 09 Aug 2022
No smoke and mirrors, BS or bias
If you have been reading headlines in recent months, you might be doing anything from quietly sobbing (“my property portfolio’s value is plummeting”); throwing up...
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Should APRA take note of UK lending stress test changes? read icon 2 min read
Finance • 09 Aug 2022
Should APRA take note of UK lending stress test changes?
The Bank of England’s (BoE) latest mortgage stress test amendments could pave the way for a similar model on home soil, according to Pete Wargent, BuyersBuyers...
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