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While an established property in an established suburb is never a bad investment — older suburbs tend to be in higher demand and property values appreciate faster — there are more than a few reasons why the right new home could be a better investment.
Governments often consider Stamp Duty Concessions and Super Contributions to encourage not only First Home Buyers but also the building industry.
Continue reading “How Buying a New Home is Safer & Better for Tax”
Sydney’s high property prices have pushed first home owners and property investors further out and increased demand on regional areas. While some people are looking to move out of the city to the Central Coast or Hunter regions, property investors are looking for the next growth area to invest in like the inner suburbs of Newcastle or low priced alternatives like Morisset and Cooranbong, where it is still close enough to commute to Sydney but house prices are low and increasing.
Continue reading “Property Search and Discovery – What’s Involved & Who Does it?”
There’s an old saying about buying the worst property in the best street, and that’s doubly true for property investors. Not because you want to rent out an old slum to tenants, but because with just a few low cost modifications, you can not only increase the rental you’ll get for it, but also improve your property’s value so you can start investing again.
Windale, a suburb of Newcastle, is portrayed as one of the most disadvantaged communities in NSW. It has some of the highest rates of unemployment, substance abuse and social housing in New South Wales but much of the social housing has already been sold to investors and first home owners and at VERY cheap prices!
Would you kick yourself if you didn’t invest in a property in one of the closest suburbs to Newcastle at these prices?
Continue reading “Windale is Redfern Twenty Years Ago — Should You Invest?”
You can make a verbal or email offer for a property, but nothing is binding until you’ve signed the contract of sale and made a deposit. A previous post [Offer and Acceptance] discussed what happens after an offer is accepted, but this time we’re going to look at some of the options you have when making an offer in the first place.
Continue reading “Verbal or Email Offers Are Acceptable But Not Binding”
This March, the U.S. Federal Reserve raised the country’s cash rate a quarter of a percent, to 1.75 percent. It’s the first time in 18 years, the U.S. has raised the cash rate higher than Australia’s, which remains unchanged at a record low 1.5 percent.
If you’re still looking to invest in real estate Cessnock might be a good low risk, high return strategy
There are two common ways to buy property: by private treaty or at auction. Both involve making an offer of sorts to the vendor, which is ultimately accepted or declined. This post is going to assume you’ve made an offer for a property, either at auction where it’s been the winning bid or on a private treaty sale and it’s been accepted. Now what? Continue reading “Offer and Acceptance”