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.
Luke Phan read icon 1 min read
Finance • 10 Jun 2021
The love-hate relationship with finance
Property investing is a numbers game, with the best investors understanding their portfolio needs and how they can best finance future property purchases. 
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RBA makes final cash rate call for FY21 read icon 2 min read
Finance • 01 Jun 2021
RBA makes final cash rate call for this financial year
The Reserve Bank of Australia has made its last call on the official cash rate for this financial year.
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What will it take for the bank to lift the rates read icon 2 min read
Finance • 12 May 2021
What will it take for the bank to lift the rates – and how will it impact property investors?
The stronger than expected recovery outlined in Tuesday’s budget now has leading commenters expecting the RBA could lift rates sooner than expected.
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Budget needs to target housing choice and affordability in regions read icon 1 min read
Finance • 05 May 2021
‘Budget needs to target housing choice and affordability in regions’
While the upcoming federal budget is expected to focus on job creation, experts believe an opportunity exists for a “population and infrastructure reset” to relieve...
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RBA makes May cash rate announcement read icon 1 min read
Finance • 04 May 2021
RBA makes May cash rate announcement
The Reserve Bank of Australia has made its May call on the official cash rate, with the economy said to be a long way from the conditions needed to precede a rate...
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Home loan demand continues to soar read icon 1 min read
Finance • 30 Apr 2021
Home loan demand continues to soar
Record-low interest rates and strong house price growth is leading to surging mortgage applications, new research has revealed.
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Why you need to exercise caution in a low-rate environment read icon 2 min read
Finance • 29 Apr 2021
Why you need to exercise caution in a low-rate environment
Investors are returning to the market following a nine-month-long hiatus, a mortgage broker has hinted.
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Rate of inflation read icon 2 min read
Finance • 28 Apr 2021
Rate of inflation disappoints, silencing interest rate doomsayers
Speculation that the likelihood of rising March quarter inflation data would signal the prospect of interest rate rises has predictably once again fallen well wide of...
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Australia to become a hermit nation read icon 1 min read
Finance • 22 Apr 2021
Australia to become a ‘hermit nation’ in the absence of innovative policy
As Australia’s population declines for the first time in more than a century, Property Council chief Ken Morrison has warned Australia needs to avoid “the economic...
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The RBA has restated its intention to monitor trends in housing borrowing and the maintenance of lending standards “carefully”. read icon 1 min read
Finance • 20 Apr 2021
RBA confirms focus on lending standards as prices soar
The RBA has restated its intention to monitor trends in housing borrowing and the maintenance of lending standards “carefully”.
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