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.
RBA reveals September cash rate read icon 1 min read
Finance • 07 Sep 2021
RBA reveals September cash rate - 2021
Spring may have arrived – but has the promise of warmer weather and a path out of lockdown swayed the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) away from its record low cash...
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investment property loan with a bad credit read icon 6 min read
Finance • 06 Sep 2021
Can you get an investment property loan with a bad credit?
Can you get an investment property loan with bad credit? The answer is 'yes' and here’s how you can do it.
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Calls for stamp duty reform intensify ahead of housing affordability inquiry read icon 2 min read
Finance • 18 Aug 2021
Calls for stamp duty reform intensify ahead of housing affordability inquiry
A new inquiry on housing affordability has the property sector talking about the possibility of stamp duty reform again.
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Minister for Finance Simon Birmingham read icon 1 min read
Finance • 17 Aug 2021
Government unveils new lands acquisition reforms
The federal government has updated the legislation around how it acquires land for public use, following a formal review.
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home proptech read icon 2 min read
Finance • 12 Aug 2021
Meet the company bringing a buy now, pay later attitude to bridging loans
Realty Assist promises to help property buyers get what they want when they want it. 
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COVID-19 has Australians asking big questions about mortgages, and finding new answers read icon 2 min read
Finance • 06 Aug 2021
COVID-19 has Australians asking big questions about mortgages, and finding new answers
Digital mortgages are faster and leaner than the alternatives, so why do 80 per cent of Australians still opt for the big banks?
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RBA makes cash rate call for August read icon 1 min read
Finance • 03 Aug 2021
RBA makes cash rate call for August
The Reserve Bank of Australia has made its latest call on the official cash rate.
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APRA read icon 2 min read
Finance • 26 Jul 2021
RBA gives APRA’s use of macro tools a tick of approval
Ahead of an expected move to impose tougher lending rules on the banks, the Reserve Bank has looked into previous attempts by APRA to cool the housing market.
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Big 4 extends freeze on foreclosures until 2022 read icon 1 min read
Finance • 19 Jul 2021
Big 4 extends freeze on foreclosures until 2022
A major bank has announced that it is extending the freeze on foreclosures it first announced in November 2020, until at least February 2022.
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Banks asked to prepare for negative interest rates read icon 1 min read
Finance • 14 Jul 2021
Banks asked to prepare for negative interest rates
Banks have been told to draft plans to deal with the possibility of zero or negative interest rates by April 2022, with the aim to evade potential “operation...
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