Writing a piece for the website Your Investment Property, John Hilton talks about investment-worthy suburbs and why capital growth is not bound to come with a growth in rental value.
Archives for October 2014
Archives
Don’t get your Loans Serviced By a Single Lender
In an article for the website Property Update, Andrew Mirams writes about the amount of security you should be ready to pledge to your lender. It is important to be in control of one’s assets but investors are often swept away by clauses and covenants and offer more than their portfolio can risk.
Sydney’s Property Market Growth Has Been Spectacular
There comes a time in the property cycle when even the most bullish markets have to mellow down and look for sustainability. To an extent, this is something we may expect of the Sydney housing market in 2015. This said, there is no shying away from the fact that it has shown phenomenal capital growth over the last year and should continue to perform way above the national average.
Should We Be Wary of Foreign Investors?
Overseas buyers may elbow us out of the property race and we are likely to become a second-show in our own country. Has this statement got any truth in it? If it is true, it’s cause for serious concern and if it’s not, it is time the myth got busted. We better find out!
How Insurance can See You Through household disasters
“Life is what happens to you while you are busy making other plans”. While there are many bright flashes and silver linings all through life, there are also the gloomy alleys that we have to travel through. And, if things can go wrong they probably will at some stage or the other. So how do you prepare yourself for the unforeseen if you are a property investor or an owner-occupier?
Should I Buy First or Sell First?
Property buyers always seem to face this dilemma (unless of course they are savvy investors who know the grind): whether they should sell their current home before they buy or should they buy first and sell their current place on a later day?
