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.
Sally Tindall read icon 1 min read
Finance • 27 Nov 2017
Why you should think about refinancing
How would you react if you could save tens of thousands of dollars of your investment loan? Would you think it sounds too good to be true? It’s the relatively...
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RBA, house prices, property market read icon 2 min read
Finance • 24 Nov 2017
RBA shows indifference towards house prices
The RBA has claimed, much like APRA, that it does not have any targets for housing prices, despite warning about the rising levels of household debt in the current...
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5 Tips For Financing Your First Commercial Property Loan read icon 6 min read
Finance • 22 Nov 2017
5 Tips For Financing Your First Commercial Property Loan
Promoted by Mortgage Corp. Did you know the lending process for commercial loans and home loans are the same? However, there are some financing quirks which are unique...
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COMMERCIAL LOAN CASE STUDY read icon 3 min read
Finance • 17 Nov 2017
COMMERCIAL LOAN CASE STUDY
Promoted by Mortgage Corp Business Owners Secured Dream Warehouse Saving Approx. $2,000/Month
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Poverty, empty wallet, struggles for Australians, most expensive places to live in, property prices read icon 2 min read
Finance • 15 Nov 2017
Is ‘power poverty’ leading to more struggles for Australians?
Many people recognise Australia as one of the most expensive places to live in and it’s undeniably getting harder for a lot of its residents to settle down and get by...
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8 Common investor home loan mistakes read icon 3 min read
Finance • 10 Nov 2017
8 Common investor home loan mistakes
Promoted by Lendi. If you’re planning on winning big in real estate, start by learning from the mistakes that even the most experienced property investors sometimes...
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The secret to borrowing more of the banks money read icon 2 min read
Finance • 10 Nov 2017
The secret to borrowing more of the banks money
Promoted by Confidence Finance. For most property investors, your borrowing power is the single most important factor in determining the potential property portfolio...
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Rate disparity between rates, interest-only, principal interest rates read icon 2 min read
Finance • 08 Nov 2017
Why is there a rate disparity between interest-only and principal interest rates?
Following the amendments to lending regulations implemented by the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) to slow down the influx of people coming into the...
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Pay down debt, interest rate hikes, read icon 3 min read
Finance • 07 Nov 2017
Amid possible interest rate hikes: Pay down debt instead of leveraging
Economists have recently been working with property experts and professionals to forecast the possible scenarios should interest rates start to hike following the...
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RBA announces cash rate for November read icon 2 min read
Finance • 07 Nov 2017
RBA announces cash rate for November
The Reserve Bank of Australia has announced the cash rate for November, following its monthly board meeting.
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