Wow! Has this year been super busy or what? Who would have thought that we would see a market like this in our lifetime and especially riding the back of a global pandemic? As far as property searches go, some people are just “over it!”.Having said that, there are the...

We’ve got Covid, a recession and had lockdown all over the place, but property remains strong and seemingly getting stronger?We all remember the dire predictions in the press this time last year with most property pundits espousing everything up to a total collapse of...

How Many Property Booms Have You Missed So Far?

You can count them on this graph.Personally, I haven’t missed any since 1998. Can you guess why that is? The reason is because I bought my first property in 1998, so I’ve had my toe in the water ever since then. Sure, there have been a couple of slower periods in that...

How Fast is Your Dream Slipping……Ahh…..Powering Away From You?

Have you been keeping a close eye on the market lately? Haven’t we all! It’s hard to believe some of the crazy things going on at the moment. This makes it all the more important to take action so you don’t see your dreams like you see a jet fighter…………disappearing...

Perfect Urban 5 Bed Oasis

522Have you got a ‘Brady Bunch’ family? Are Mum and Dad living with you?If either of these are true, this is the house for you. If you’re up for dual occupancy as an investment strategy, this works as well. The original home as a renovated self contained granny flat ...

Are You Positive that You’re Negative?

Jehoshaphat, “Negative gearing is the best property investment strategy”. Geraldine, “Are you positive?” Jehoshaphat, "Huh???" OK, so we’ve all heard about positive and negative gearing with regard to property investment. But which one is the best strategy? Put...

Home Ownership

This is the most common investment strategy in Australia. The great Australian dream. Most Australians aspire to own their own home. This strategy is simply one to buy and hold a property that you live in and very likely raise your family in.

Home ownership holds capital gains tax advantages in that capital gains, which is very significant on investment properties, is not applied to your principle place of residence. When you sell it, you don’t pay tax Capital Gains Tax on it. Further benefits include the ability to gradually renovate and improve the property at you own leisure to add, and enjoy yourself, value over time in addition to the fact that the property will also highly likely increase in value over time.

This strategy can still be used to enter the property market. Many start off by paying off their own home, or a part thereof, then leverage the equity to branch out into investment properties. You use the equity in your own home to buy others.

IMPORTANT: Be sure to execute this properly via your finance people so that you don’t adversely affect the mortgage on your own home.