Prior to having kids I was a keen traveller and one time when I was on a trip to Vietnam I ‘happened’ to sit next to a very interesting man, on a bus. His name was Kevin and was a very successful property investor. At the time he was the UKs largest independent property investor who in his 15 years of investing had acquired over 800 properties with $5m profit [...]
There has been a lot of hype and talk over the movie recently titled “The Big Short” which is based around a few guys “shorting” mortgage-backed securities based in the USA. The movie has caused quite a stir with a lot of viewers wondering whether the same thing could happen here in Australia. So I thought I would cover off why this will NOT happen here in Australia and here [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9UjwCGUaqA& Hi everyone, Leonie here from Wealthology, and today I wanted to talk to you about surrounding yourself with winners. Now, that might sound a little bit funny, but let me ask you, are you surrounding yourself with inspirational people? People who encourage and support you, people who elevate your thinking, your performance? Now, Jim Rohn once said, "We are the average of the five people we spend the most [...]
Halloween often involves telling scary stories, kids dressed up in home-made outfits running up and down the street trick or treating and of course the unusual tradition of carving up pumpkins. I was reminded recently of a scary story a client (John) told me about his Mum and Dad who divorced when he was about 27 years old. Mum used her share of the settlement and brought a little three bedroom house [...]
So, you’re thinking about investing in property to create wealth for yourself but you’re not entirely sure how the money side of things works? That’s OK. It might seem a touch confusing but really financing on a mortgage basis is quite straightforward. Let’s take a quick look at what you really need to know: You Need A Deposit A deposit is a percentage of the purchase price that you will [...]
Millennials are those born in the 1980s and up to the mid-1990s. They found themselves hitting the job market as a major financial crisis hit the world and major changes were being made to the world of work; changes over which they had very little control but which affected their generation most of all. While many paint this generation with doom and gloom because of this – I think they’re [...]
Thinking about getting into property investment but wondering how the positives and negatives balance on the scales? No problem! Let’s take a look at the pros and cons of property investment and how to make the most out of your investment in property. Let’s take a look at the cons first: It used to be that your rental income wouldn’t cover your mortgage payments but in Australia’s funny property market [...]
We get asked this question a lot in the course of our work and it’s not completely straightforward to answer because there’s no single hotspot but we can help you narrow down where to look very easily. Regional and Mining Towns Some of the biggest gains have taken place in small regional and mining towns, that can lead to people thinking these are the best place to funnel investment in [...]
Retirement, it always looks so far away and then one day, it is there. Most Australians want to spend their retirements doing the things they never had a chance to do when they were busy working but many Australians find that is not what happens. You see, unless you invest in your retirement fund – you may end your working life with barely enough to live on and even struggle [...]
https://youtu.be/TkX5ZZmf0Vk So I'm standing here directly opposite one of my investment properties and you'll see these beautiful park lands areas behind me. Now this is one of the things that I look for when searching for properties for my investment clients is recreational areas. It's one of a top few things that I look for. The other thing I look for is schools, jobs, good transport and shopping facilities. But these [...]
