Property Investment

SMSF trustees are showing a growing interest in commercial property as a long-term investment that offers security, yield, and capital gain. Jonathon Street, CEO of specialist commercial property lender, Thinktank talks about the benefits and who is being attracted to it. Transcript: Kevin:  There’s a growing interest in...

Have you ever thought about investing in a squash court and re-developing it into mass accommodation?  Ian Ugarte has been doing it very successfully.   He talks about how to do and how he gets 4 apartments out of every court.  4 courts equals 16 apartments. Transcript: Kevin:  I...

You’d be excused for thinking that the property market in Australia is all doom and gloom. We’re hearing about reductions in price, the Sydney market falling and so on, but you’re going to be really surprised to hear a report that we’ll be talking about...

When to fire your property manager?   That is a question posed in the latest Your Investment Property magazine and we quiz editor Sarah Megginson about it and why she says property investing cannot be set and forget. Transcript: Kevin:  As you would no doubt be aware, issue...

The Sydney rental market has recorded the highest vacancy rate in at least 13 years according to Louis Christopher from SQM Research.   He says the Sydney rental market is just about at the tipping point and he explains what that means for owners and investors. Transcript: Kevin:  The...

Easing house price pressures are proving some affordability relief for home buyers according to the HIA. Joining us to talk about this, HIA economist Diwa Hopkins.   Diwa says the most affordable capital right now was the least affordable only a few years ago.  So what...