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  • Should we Specialise or Diversify in the Property Market?

    Diversification is a sound investment principle and there are many schools of reasoning which support the idea. Hundreds of case studies accumulated from the past will tell us how diversification in the property market helped rout out fears of decline in capital growth or fall in rental yield. But we do take time to sit…

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  • Eastern Suburbs Rental Market Reaches New Highs

    An article on the Property Observer emphasises on the booming rental market in the Eastern Suburbs, Sydney. It has proven so historically and now in the context of the immediate reference point (March Quarter), the Eastern Suburbs is also coming up trumps.

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  • What Investors Need to Know About Depreciation Claims

    In an article for the website Streetnews, Bradley Beer talks about the importance that depreciation claims wield and how the investors may be affected by inefficient claims. While planning investments, investors wish to make an informed decision and depreciation claims become an integral part of such decisions. A fundamental knowledge, to say but the least,…

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  • Houses or Units – The Debate Continues

    In an article for Property Update, George Raptis puts forth his opinion on which would win in a toss-up between houses and units about which one is the best property to invest in. The traditional line of thinking suggests that the “value lies in the land and not the building”. This implies that houses should be…

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  • First Home Buyers Are More Confident

    First home buyers are now more confident despite the booming prices of properties. A report from Genworth’s Street Ahead states that there’s a noticeable rise in confidence for first home buyers, with 66% believing that now is a good time to invest or buy properties. First home buyer confidence rose to 101.2% in March. Despite…

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  • Median for Sydney House Asking Price Tops $1,060,000

    In most of the capital cities of Australia, the number of residential property listings went up  in March of this year, but Canberra and Melbourne experienced an unseasonal fall in the listings. On a national scale, the number of unsold listings rose to 1.8% from February 2015, or roughly 358,167 unsold properties as of March…

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