Why your wealth must be insured
I want you to picture a big suitcase stuffed with $929,000 in cash. It’s all yours. That’s your wealth.
Now, I want you to imagine that suitcase is tied to a very thin piece of string, suspended high in the air, da…
Why everyone needs to take a chill pill
You know the market has turned when you start seeing headlines with words like “bust”, “crunch” and “plunge” in the headlines.
It was only 18 months ago when the words “boom”, “record highs” and “peak” were much mo…
Keeping the KIPPERS at bay
They may be both the light of your life and your legacy, but today’s kids include a whole new demographic subset that’s having a significant impact on how parental property owners and pending retirees are seeing out t…
What to do in tighter lending conditions
Housing finance is in the news more often than it’s not these days.
One of the reasons is that as capital cities move through their respective cycles so does reporting on the property market.
One day, strong mar…
What we can learn from Australia’s richest people
It seems like Australia’s billionaires are getting richer while the rest of us struggle with record-low wage growth.
The recently released AFR Rich 200 list gives us some insight into what’s happening to the fortu…
Protect your investment like it’s your baby
I remember reading a news article a year or so back about a property investor whose tenant accidentally started a fire in the unit and gutted the place.
The structure was fine and any small repairs that had to be m…
Plastic is not fantastic – here’s how to ditch it
Like your first kiss; car, job, love and heartbreak, chances are you’ll never forget your very first credit card.
Not because of the dizzying high it gave, the sage wisdom it instilled or the thrilling sense of acc…
What you’ll have to cough up when you sell
When it comes to property investing, quite often there’s no reward — or usually no big reward in any case — without a little bit of risk.
Similarly, there’s almost always no reward without a heavy dose of reality.
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