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 • 08 Dec 2025
Experts slam 50-year loans: ‘More risk, less reward’
As Australia prepares for another cash rate hold, experts have rejected the controversial idea of a 50-year mortgage, which would further increase property prices rather...
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Finance • 02 Dec 2025
If inflation can't be contained, rates may go up – and create a disastrous ripple effect
Opinion: With the announcement of the recent inflation figures not heading in a healthy direction, many are saying interest rates will be on hold for now. Although this...
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Finance • 02 Dec 2025
APRA’s cap may not impact prices, but could limit investor strategies, experts say
While APRA’s new high debt-to-income lending 'won't rock the market', experts warned it could cramp investors’ borrowing power and tighten an already stretched...
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Finance • 26 Nov 2025
CPI figures extinguish rate hopes, but more pain is on the horizon
Opinion: Today’s inflation figures have all but destroyed any hope of an interest rate cut for those millions of Australians in mortgage stress. And I fear the worst...
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Finance • 25 Nov 2025
Mortgage competition heats up as investors and first home buyers clash
Investors and first home buyers continue to compete for properties in short supply.
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Finance • 19 Nov 2025
Victoria surges ahead as fastest-growing investor market
Victoria has emerged as the fastest-growing investor segment, with double-digit loan growth, poised to reclaim its position as Australia’s second-largest landlord...
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Finance • 13 Nov 2025
Investor lending hits all-time high
The total value of new investor loans has jumped 18.7 per cent over the past year, ABS research has found.
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Finance • 10 Nov 2025
SA Liberals pledge to scrap stamp duty if elected
The opposition party has branded transfer duty as “inefficient” and pledged to phase it out by 2041.
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Finance • 04 Nov 2025
Racing ahead: RBA delivers latest cash rate update
The central bank has announced today’s cash rate target on Melbourne Cup day, concluding its seventh monetary policy meeting of the year.
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Finance • 31 Oct 2025
Big four bank declares end of rate-easing cycle
Australia's biggest bank is predicting that the RBA has reached the end of the current rate-easing cycle.
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