Property Investment Topics

We look into the question about buying before auction. No doubt many buyers would prefer not to put themselves under the competition of auction day.  Cate Bakos from the Real Estate Buyer’s Agents Association of Australia points out that there are three different ways to...

18 per cent of property buyers in Australia fail to get pre-approved finance before trying to buy at auction.  While Dene Tucker from RE/MAX says the majority of buyers have their pre-approval in order, any percentage of non-pre-approved buyers is a concern.   We talk to...

One of the Property Mentors, Matthew Bateman, joins in the affordability debate by looking back and comparing the challenges other generations faced to  give current property investors some perspective Transcript: Kevin:  A very hotly debated issue all the time is housing affordability. Do we actually have a housing...

According to BIS Oxford Economics, nearly 20 per cent of the apartments in inner Brisbane are sitting empty and more than 50 projects have been shelved or ditched altogether. Angie Zigomanis from BIS Oxford says more than 10,000 new apartments have been abandoned or deferred...

There’s a lot of speculation around property investing, in particular when we start to chase things like hot spots.   According to property mentor Luke Harris there is a big difference between speculating short term and investing for the long term. Transcript: Kevin:  In a previous conversation I...