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10 Tips For Investing In Cash-Flow Positive Property

1. Be clear on how much return you need to make the property positive! The very first thing you need to define is, what kind of return you need to make a cash-flow positive property. This can rely on your earnings, your tax position, and your level of comfort with debt, but after you know, [...]

Queensland Property Market Picking Up Steam

The decision to hold official IRs steady at 4.25 per cent last week was not well received by some Australian households, as many had hoped for a reduced rate. The Housing Industry Organisation (HIA) saw the choice as deleterious to the economy, recommending that the construction industry would continue to decline if rates were not [...]

Sydney As A Great Place For Property Investment

On a world scale, Sydney is a superb spot to represent a property investment, according to new figures released jointly by PricewaterhouseCoopers and the Urban Land Institute. A latest report titled Developing Trends in Property Pacific Coastal Areas Pacific 2012 named Sydney as the 3rd most agreeable market in the area for commercial property investment [...]

Be Alert, Not Alarmed

Accordingly to our national anthem, Australia is a country that is in possession of ‘golden soil’. I doubt our farmers agree at present though, as drought has stricken lots of the land. Property speculators potentially are not seeing many golden property returns for now either. Current press articles quote leading economists – the likes of [...]

‘Easy Come, Easy Go ‘ Investing

A fortnight ago, while enjoying a summer bbq, a couple sought my opinion about a property exchange they were contemplating. Basically, they needed to make more efficient use of a negatively geared block of land they'd acquired with the view to potentially building on it. After asking some mild leading questions, it became clearer that [...]

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