Our question of the week comes from Rita who asks about depreciation on a cosmetic renovation and if she needs to replace her existing schedule or just add to it. In today's show Brad Beer, our tax depreciation expert from BMT Tax Depreciation, joins us. Transcript: Kevin: As I...
There is a great book I want to tell you about today – its called The Real Estate Matchmaker. In it, Tim Eaton sets about explaining the 8 key questions most sellers don’t ask agents to guarantee they never leave any money on the table when negotiating...
Property investor and mentor, Nhan Nguyen, tells us how to structure offers to suit the market conditions and when to do quick or long settlements. Michael Yardney tells us the two things 90% of investors fail to do and as a consequence do not maximise the...
We can tell you about a country wide prohibition on yet another round of dodgy Chinese-manufactured cabling products that have gone into homes in Australia. Who is at risk and what can you do? In today's show we talk to Malcolm Richards, who is the CEO...
Why would you want to look after your own management, whether it is a single property or the the strata management of a block. In today's show Michael Teys from Block Strata tries to answer that for me in in the process you’ll see, I think,...
Can you lodge a caveat over the property of someone who owes you money? When can a caveat be laid and what can you do if someone slaps one on your property? In today's show we talk to Garth Brown from Brown & Brown Conveyances. Transcript: Kevin: An...
AMP Senior Economist Shane Oliver shocked many people with his prediction of a 7.5% downturn in the Australian property market. He talks to us today and we get to the bottom of his claim. Transcript: Kevin: Let’s get a good insight as to what’s happening in the...
Recently the Australian Bureau of Statistics warned our population growth is slowing. So does slowing population growth pose a risk to property? Michael Yardney, from Metropole Property Strategists, discusses whether this slowdown pose a risk to our economy and pull the rug out from under our...
Smart investors know that if it looks too good it probably is. That could be the case with off the plan purchasers but if you are going to buy off the plan, in today's show Shannon Davis, from Metropole Property Strategists, explains how best to do...