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.

Questions to ask your mortgage broker

Finance • 17 Dec 2018

Questions to ask your mortgage broker

Promoted by Mortgage House. When you’re investing in property, the market can be dynamic, and you have to be able to move quickly. That’s where a good mortgage...

House and coins

Finance • 13 Dec 2018

Housing finance difficulties to continue to June 2019

Many property investors were impacted by a tighter lending environment during 2018 and one top economist expects that the situation will not ease until after June 2019.

3 Powerful Tips to Pay Down Your Mortgage Faster

Finance • 11 Dec 2018

3 Powerful Tips to Pay Down Your Mortgage Faster

Promoted by HashChing. Buying a home is not the same as ‘owning’ one! Yes, until you have paid off the last cent on your mortgage, you home, technically, is not...

Mortgage broker

Finance • 07 Dec 2018

More than half of all loans go through a broker

With the knowledge that more than half of all loans go through a mortgage broker, what should property investors keep in mind?

Mortgage property

Finance • 06 Dec 2018

Investors may soon be charged a fee for finding a mortgage

Recent comments made at the Royal Commission into Misconduct in the Banking, Superannuation and Financial Services Industry by CBA Chief Executive Matt Comyn have major...

Finance • 04 Dec 2018

Final 2018 cash rate call revealed

The Reserve Bank has today revealed the outcome of its monthly board meeting, following over two years of no movement.

Man relaxing on top of the tree

Finance • 30 Nov 2018

BLOG: Get smart and don’t worry about the market

The current state of the market might have you believe the market is going crap and the banks are going to cripple loans, but as long as you have your finances in check,...

Property model and calculator

Finance • 29 Nov 2018

Valuations catching out property investors at settlement

Property investors are increasingly finding bank valuations are coming in under purchase price, but there are a range of steps which can mitigate the risk of finance...

Interest-only loans divide property investors

Finance • 27 Nov 2018

Interest-only loans divide property investors

A new study has revealed the nation is evenly split on interest-only loans; half of Australians think the loan type is a positive thing, while the other half view it...

Man in a suit meditating

Finance • 26 Nov 2018

41% of mortgage holders ignore cash rates

A fresh report has claimed that, of Australia’s population, property investors are a part of the chosen few who are enlightened when it comes to ‘financial...