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5 Things to Consider When Buying an Investment Property

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A Must Read For All Potential Investors

“The best time to start investing in property is 20 years ago… the second best time is now!”

Investing in property can be one of the greatest and most secure means to help strengthen your financial position. You choice of property, its location and circumstances in which you buy can have a dramatic … Continue Reading »

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7 Reasons Why Property Investors Never Own More Than 2 Properties

Most Australians will retire on or below the poverty line. With the average age expectancies increasing and the cost of living snowballing, many Australians will find it ever more difficult to enjoy their retirement and live financially free.

Property investment can provide a relatively low … Continue Reading »

Could this development project in Glen Iris now represent some of Melbourne’s best buying?

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Vivid on Malvern

According one of Australia’s leading property marketing portals, The Domain Group, house prices in parts of Melbourne’s south-east appear set for a significant boost when work begins on the removal of four level crossings to ease traffic congestion.

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A number of prominent local agents are predicting that their removal will increase the desirability of … Continue Reading »

How to: Spot a Growth Area

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The property investors hotspot

For decades smart property investors have been obsessing over which suburbs are going to become the next ‘hotspots’ – and all this obsessing has appeared to pay off for some.

Identifying a property hotspot is about timing in the market, if you time you entry well enough you may experience strong capital growth literally from … Continue Reading »

Ask The Agent | Why Changing Places?

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Why Changing Places was an ideal fit for Rushi

Rushi Juvekar opened his Changing Places business in February 2015, Well educated and managing Melbourne’s Telephone exchange network for Telstra, Rushi had no prior real estate experience apart from having bought and sold a number of his own … Continue Reading »

Top 10 most affordable regional suburbs (for units)

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You might be surprised…

Have you ever wondered where to buy some of the country’s cheapest, most affordable property?

This week we take a look at RP Data’s recent release: the most affordable regional suburb for units in Australia. The results are based on median units values as at February 2015 with at least 100 sales over the … Continue Reading »

Metro VS Regional

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What’s the real difference?

On average, two in every three Australians currently live in capital cities across the country. In fact, 78% Western Australian residents live in the greater Perth area, giving the WA capital he highest proportion of population among each of the 8 major cities.

Over the next few decades the number of people that are choosing to … Continue Reading »

Capital Markets Report 2015

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Housing Market | State by State

The latest CoreLogic RP Data Property Capital Markets report has been released and reveals some interesting information about the Australian property market. The Australian economy has continued to grow over the past year, however, the rate of economic growth has slowed over recent years as investment in the resources sector has moderated.

Related: … Continue Reading »

Top 5

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Ranked Australian Universities

This month marks the first full month that most high school graduates will become ‘official’ uni-students

The University of Melbourne remains Australia’s top university, ranking number 33 in the world. It’s no surprise that surrounding suburb Parkville has a proportionately high demographic of young independents.

This list is based on the latest round of Times Higher Education World University Rankings, with universities in … Continue Reading »

Top 10 highest yielding suburbs for units in Australia

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1. South Hedland, Port Hedland, Pilbara, WA

Rental Yield: 12.9%

South Hedland had a population of 9,381 at the 2011 Census and was originally designed as a satellite city to Port Hedland.

2. Bairnsdale, East Gippsland, East Gippsland, VIC

Rental Yield: 9.6%

Households in Bairnsdale are primarily couples with children and are likely to be repaying between $1000 and $1400 per month on … Continue Reading »

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