Posts Tagged ‘real estate’

After showing strong conditions through to September, the final quarter of 2015 ends with capital city dwelling values declining by 1.4%.

According to the CoreLogic RP Data Home Value Index, dwelling values were absolutely flat across the combined capitals during December, with negative movements in Sydney, Adelaide and Canberra being offset … Read More

Sydney and Melbourne’s respective property booms may be slowing, but investors who understood the capital city markets correctly could be about to trigger a new round of price growth in some surprise locations.

Price growth is set to continue having flow-on effects for the rest of the Australian property market, according … Read More

Using a self-managed super fund (SMSF) to buy property is becoming increasingly popular but the decision requires careful consideration.

There are significant advantages to having a property in an SMSF for example tax effectiveness: your super fund will be taxed at 15 per cent which is considerably … Read More

Property managers are often cited as a key member of the team of professionals you should have around you in order to build a sustainable and efficient property portfolio.

A good property manager can be the difference between an investment property that plods along and one that supercharges your portfolio’s growth … Read More

Before starting to look seriously at a property, most investors work out the yield on the property to see if it makes their shortlist. Although some investors buy property for other reasons – such as land banking, infrastructure potential or lifestyle reasons – most are mainly concerned with … Read More

Dealing with contracts is nowhere near as simple as just signing on the dotted line. When it comes to property investing, don’t sign anything until you understand every part of the deal and contract.

Read each and every contract, even if the contracts may look the same as those you’ve seen … Read More

Over the last four years the number of investment property loans in Australia has grown by 37% compared to an increase of only 4% in the number of owner occupied loans.

Check out the latest findings from the Roy Morgan Research Consumer Single Source survey of approximately 45,000 people per annum … Read More

As Sydney’s property market reels from yet another year-low auction clearance rate, sellers in the city and eastern suburbs clearly have less to worry about.

The higher-density region scored a healthy 75.3 per cent clearance rate at the end of October, topping the rest of the market on Sydney’s biggest spring … Read More

Announcer considers the pros and cons.

I’m confused – my bank teller is telling me to transfer my savings onto my mortgage but you are encouraging me to leave the money in my offset account. Isn’t the end result the same? Why am I being told something different from the … Read More

Meet the suburb swingers – people who regularly move from Paddington to Balmain, Woollahra to Glebe, Surry Hills to Newtown and Killara to Woollahra without blinking an eye.

Retro-migration from west to east, east to west, north to east are all possible, if not highly likely, as part of today’s new buyer behaviour.

Once … Read More