Real Estate Finance and Property Investment Strategies

Do You Know The Power Your Lender Has Over You?

Very few people read through mortgage contracts and understand what they are agreeing to. Most of these contracts have clauses that are very one sided and give the lender a lot of power over the borrower, particularly in cases of default.Most people wouldRead More...

Alistair Perry

May 3rd, 2017

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APRA Now Officially Restricting Interest-Only Loans

Australian regulators have decided to intervene in the property market again, in response to the continued strong growth in house prices, particularly in Sydney and Melbourne. The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) has placed additional restrictions on Australia’s banks and other deposit-taking institutions.It hasRead More...

Alistair Perry

April 6th, 2017

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Property Investors Back in Regulators’ Sights

Home prices in Australia’s biggest cities continue to surge higher. Sydney is leading the way with research firm, CoreLogic claiming prices have risen as much as 5.3 percent since the start of the year. Melbourne residential property prices are reported to have jumpedRead More...

Alistair Perry

March 29th, 2017

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Debt: Never Good. Just Bad, Worse or Toxic!

Have you ever been to a seminar and heard the phrase ‘good debt’? Perhaps debt that allows you to negatively gear? Or debt that allows you to buy an investment property where the return is greater than the cost of servicing, thereby allowingRead More...

Steve McKnight

March 16th, 2017

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6 Steps to Your Big Money Making Idea

Today I want to give you the six steps that could help you find your big idea, but first, here’s a word of warning. People often come up with an idea no one has ever done before. They get excited about the lackRead More...

Brendan Nichols

February 15th, 2017

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CBA Suspends Investor Refinances

The Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) has recently made headlines by announcing a freeze in new lending to property investors wishing to refinance their loans. Just like with most other news related to the property market lately, the media has neglected aRead More...

Alistair Perry

February 10th, 2017

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Finding Joint Venture Partners

With the economy showing signs of tightening and banks already creeping interest rates up, it’s time to start thinking creatively when financing your property deals. Joint venturing and money partnering is often overlookedRead More...

Matt Jones

February 9th, 2017

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The Aussie Dream – So Far Out of Reach

The issue of housing affordability, both house prices and rents, is attracting a lot of media attention right now. There’s little sign house prices in Australia’s biggest cities will slow down anytime soon. A survey by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS)Read More...

Alistair Perry

February 8th, 2017

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Tips & Tricks For Developers: Overcoming Finance Challenges

The lending environment is changing. In response to rising property values, APRA has increased bank capital requirements and tightened lending standards. How do these changes impact developers? In this video, professional developers Dean Parker and Martin Ayles discuss one of Martin’s recent dealsRead More...

Dean Parker

November 9th, 2016

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Interest Rates Are On Hold, But For How Long?

The RBA Board met this week and decided to leave the target cash rate on hold at a record low 1.50 percent. In the monetary policy statement, Philip Lowe came across reluctant to lower rates, so many economists are pushing back their expectationsRead More...

Alistair Perry

November 4th, 2016

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