Get everything decided before you start looking for a property to buy.

What is the goal and time frame for investing?

How are you going to fund the investment ongoing, expenses, repayments and so on.

Seems simple, cover the basics and set the ground rules now.

Opportunity in everythinng

Any charges should be outlined and agreed to in writing before the commencement of the tenancy agreement. The landlord is required to provide a reasonable amount of water and generally this is considered to be factored into the weekly rental for the property. You may consider adding somthing similar to this as a condition in the lease agreement…[Read more]

Deception Bay and Redcliffe are fantastic places to live and invest. That’s coming from a resident of over 25 years. I gues if you buy at the right time you’ll love it here too.

Under $300,000 30km from the CBD close to the highway major hospital good schools shopping family beaches good year on year capital growth.

But be quick in the last…[Read more]

Isn’t it the settlement date of the purchase the date that counts here?

A simplistic way to look at this might be to say the event starts from the time rent is payable to you under the terms of the contract, this maybe before settlement but more likely not though. Possession seems to be the important factor here and again the contract may grant…[Read more]

I’ve spent some time in Poland recently and consider myself a pretty adventurous investor. The growth you’re talking about and the opportunities for the same is pretty evident on the ground.

Poland is truly becoming a power house of the EU. As one of the many opportunities in the EU though Poland would surely have to be one of the tough ones.…[Read more]

Right now in the current market situation of interest rate rises and an increasing cost of living auctions are a real opportunity.

It’s unfortunate but there are a number of mortgagee in possession sales taking place right now. More unfortunately though you wont find them screaming out to you from the newspapers papers. They’ll just be…[Read more]

Deception Bay units at $360k. That makes me cringe.

Opportunity in everythinng

http://www.realestate.com.au is the larger of the agent websites in Qld.

http://www.rpdata.net.au site heavily focused on Qld for detailed reports

http://www.htw.com.au/pages/info_centre/review/Qld%20Market%20Report-0606.pdf

Interested in Melbourne?

https://www.propertyinvesting.com/forum/topic/17472.html

Perhaps someone will take this question off on a Sydney tangent next?

Well that’s got Melbourne covered off, might check back on my original (earlier) post.

Let’s say you might pick-up a two bedroom house on 400m2 of land for say $220,000. Would probably rent for around $210.00 in good condition and rates be PA approx $1500. That is the starting point for crunching some numbers.

Supply is on the decline big time in Perth Metro.