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 Perth rental markets set to soar read icon 1 min read
Finance • 04 Aug 2020
The Perth rental markets set to soar
New research has identified the top suburbs set to see an increase in leasing activity growth in Perth’s rental market.
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RBA reveals August cash rate read icon 1 min read
Finance • 04 Aug 2020
RBA reveals August cash rate
The Reserve Bank of Australia has announced the official cash rate for August, with Melbourne’s stage 4 restrictions weighing heavily on the national economy.
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What is the lowest mortgage rate read icon 1 min read
Finance • 31 Jul 2020
What is the lowest mortgage rate?
With financial institutions fighting for new business, new and existing mortgage-holders could get a rate beginning with 1 if they are willing to shop around, an...
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Crisis sees investors swing towards big 4 banks read icon 1 min read
Finance • 30 Jul 2020
Crisis sees investors swing towards big 4 banks
The onset of COVID-19 has seen a change in consumer sentiment, including an uptick for lending through the big four banks and enhanced digital payment options.
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Australian households comfortable about their finances read icon 2 min read
Finance • 30 Jul 2020
Australian households comfortable about their finances
Government lifelines, including the JobKeeper and JobSeeker payments, are having an impact, with more Australians feeling comfortable about their financial position, a...
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Home prices read icon 2 min read
Finance • 24 Jul 2020
Home prices won’t return to peak until ‘middle of decade’
Housing market risks are “swinging back to the downside” amid a return to stricter social distancing measures, which threaten to prolong a recovery in residential...
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Treasurer provides economic update read icon 1 min read
Finance • 23 Jul 2020
Budget black hole: Treasurer provides economic update
Unemployment is expected to reach 9 per cent by Christmas while the budget deficit returns to World War II-era levels, the Treasurer has forecast in an economic update.
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economic airbag Josh Frydenberg read icon 1 min read
Finance • 22 Jul 2020
Property to get an ‘economic airbag’
The extension of the JobKeeper and JobSeeker payments has been welcomed by PIPA, calling it an economic airbag for the Australian economy and the property industry.
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RBA read icon 1 min read
Finance • 22 Jul 2020
RBA acknowledges HomeBuilder boost
The central bank has observed an increase in buyer interest following the rollout of the HomeBuilder package.
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Multimillion-dollar package set to benefit regional WA investors read icon 1 min read
Finance • 16 Jul 2020
Multimillion-dollar package set to benefit regional WA investors
The Western Australian government has rolled out a new land package that aims to drive growth in the state’s regional areas.
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