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2017 09 24SPI
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Sydney Hills District Booms as Developers Take Charge

Promoted by Tony Merhi   All over Sydney, we are seeing a boom in development, with many areas becoming prime real...
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How a good financial team can add value to your property portfolio

Like many property investors, Jazz Sidana believes in the value added by a good financial team who understands his...
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Where you could’ve made a small fortune over the last 3 years

While Sydney and Melbourne boomed over the last three years, one particular lesser-known location was also producing...
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Nearly 3 out of 4 households indebted: CoreLogic

CoreLogic’s latest Property Pulse has analysed the result of recent surveys conducted by the Australian Bureau of...
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Vacant Perth rental properties drop below 10,000

For the first time since January 2016, the number of vacant rental properties in Western Australia’s capital have...
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Renee Berger
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Final inspections: what to look out for

My role as a post-sale advocate is two-pronged, assisting investors and tenant with property management inquiries, and...
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Lauren Geoff Lewis
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Think you don’t need property styling? 5 reasons you’re wrong

Are you one of those people who think property styling is a modern concept, an idea that is temporarily in fashion but...
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Regional WA offering investors rental yields of up to 10%: report

A new report from a property investment consultancy shows what regional Western Australia can offer investors, with...
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Why your postcode is worth more than your address

Buyers are often encouraged to purchase the worst house in the best street, but new data from Real Estate Institute of...
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David Shih
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3 key property investment team members

Property investing is not a single-person game, so I want to stress the importance of having a good team around any...
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Should you put a granny flat on an existing property?

Many property investors often look to improve the cash flow position of their portfolio by building granny flats on...
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Tips for investing in house and land packages

House and land packages are often one type of investment that property investors find too complicated to explore, but...
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ANZ sees ‘further evidence’ of cooling property market

A combination of factors is weighing on the Australian real estate market, with ANZ flagging a continued slowdown in...
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Vacancy rates on way down, weekly rent rates up

Data from SQM Research has shown nationwide vacancy rates are generally trending down and asking rates are trending up,...
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Home values creep in most capital cities

Home values increased marginally in all but one capital city last week, with Sydney being the only one that recorded a...
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Q&A session with Paul Glossop – more questions answered! - September 2017

Have you been waiting to hear your question on the podcast? In this episode of The Smart Property Investment Show, we...
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How should you sell: auction or private treaty?

As the property market is thawing out and starting up again, it’s important to know what methods you have to sell...
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‘Melbourne has stolen Chinese buyers’: Juwai

More than 40 per cent of all Chinese-buying inquiries in the year to date have been for Melbourne, making the southern...
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Kylie Davis
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Why Millennials will affect real estate

Even though the perception of Millennials are of a lazy, entitled generation, Kylie Davis writes they are a generation...
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What makes a good tenant?

As a property investor, choosing which tenants to accommodate in your properties is one of the most important steps to...
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Bigger CGT discounts and MIT changes: Government details housing affordability measures for investors

First home buyers aren’t the only ones benefiting from the government’s attempts to make housing more affordable,...
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Hobart could be the next Sydney, says property market analyst

With both Sydney and Melbourne markets cooling, a property market analyst has said a boom could occur in Tasmania’s...
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Value increases best at top end of town

Research by CoreLogic using the stratified hedonic index shows that the most expensive 25 per cent of properties...
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‘Are you a problem client?’: Building good relationships with property professionals

Smart property investors know that establishing good relationships with property professionals is an important part of...
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Piers van Hamburg
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It makes me sick in the stomach...

He said, and I quote: “It makes me sick in the stomach how the real estate industry is obsessed with talking about...
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