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.
Investor, IO loans, sharp falls, arrow down, decline, build of risk read icon 1 min read
Finance • 14 Sep 2018
Sharp falls in investor and IO loans have reduced ‘the build of risk’: APRA
APRA’s announcement of drops in investor and interest-only loan approvals has revealed the full extent of its macro-prudential caps.
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Phil Tarrant read icon 1 min read
Finance • 13 Sep 2018
BLOG: Don’t go lending alone
If you’re looking to invest in property in this period ahead, there’s a lot of policy dictating the way in which lenders are shelling money through to investors...
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Buying and selling property with cryptocurrency: Mainstream by 2020 read icon 2 min read
Finance • 13 Sep 2018
Buying and selling property with cryptocurrency: Mainstream by 2020
Still in its infancy, cryptocurrency is the enigmatic online currency that takes control out of the hands of the government and, according to one expert, could be wildly...
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Property Portfolio Bogged, Can’t Get Finance? read icon 3 min read
Finance • 12 Sep 2018
Property Portfolio Bogged, Can’t Get Finance?
Promoted by Real Wealth Australia. It doesn’t matter how much googling and research you do, or how many inspirational books you read…
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Paul Glossop read icon 4 min read
Finance • 11 Sep 2018
Why property is a game of finance
Real estate investment can seem like a complex beast. Ask anyone who has done the deep dive into gaining a property education and you might find that they too were once...
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values, pressure, capital cities read icon 1 min read
Finance • 10 Sep 2018
Values under pressure for most capital cities, latest data finds
Value is under pressure in most of Australia’s capital cities as the cooling tide continues to come in, according to the latest data from CoreLogic.
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NAB, royal commission fiasco read icon 2 min read
Finance • 10 Sep 2018
NAB acting ‘differently’ after royal commission fiasco: CEO
NAB CEO Andrew Thorburn said the bank is “listening and acting differently” to its customers in the wake of the banking royal commission and will keep its standard...
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mortgage rate, hike, rates, property market read icon 1 min read
Finance • 07 Sep 2018
Mortgage rate hikes bad for entire property market: CoreLogic
Analysis by property analytics company CoreLogic has shown the recent loan rate hikes by the big banks are likely to do much more harm than good.
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Tight, cash, money, APRA, investor read icon 1 min read
Finance • 07 Sep 2018
APRA investor measures have ‘run beyond their usefulness’: industry body
The continuous imposition of restrictions on property investors by the nation's regulator continue to turn investors away and “have run beyond their usefulness”, an...
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South Australia, Adelaide, property investors read icon 6 min read
Finance • 05 Sep 2018
South Australia Budget 2018–19 — What property investors need to know
The South Australia budget has been handed down and there are a few things that investors should keep an eye out for that could raise the value of their portfolios, as...
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