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Negative Gearing – A Sustainable Future
-These are official numbers. If you are currently sitting in the 72.8% category, well done for starting your journey.
If you are currently sitting in the 0.9% category,
The Best Decisions Start With Reviewing 100% Of Your Choices
-There can be very few more important financial decisions than picking the right property to invest in.
Decision making is a refined skill. Really good decision making starts by first exploring what ALL of your options are. Often, it won’t be obvious to people what all those options are – one can’t know what they don’t know – so seeking the advice of a genuine specialist will expose us to more options.
“Population Growth Doesn’t Have The Influence That You Think”.
-Locations where population is growing the most have the best potential for capital growth, right? Whilst logic suggests this to be the case, historical evidence suggests otherwise. The graphs and general information below contain a wide range of information regarding Australia’s population trends. Propertyology agrees that population is an important consideration for selecting locations however, our formal studies have taught us that population is far from being the most important consideration
Keep Granny, Ditch the Flat.
-If there’s one thing which this country doesn’t have a shortage of it is property schemes and ‘gurus’ who promote these schemes to the vulnerable property investor. The defence housing scheme and National Rental Affordable Scheme (NRAS) now has competition from another scheme. This scheme is sweeping places such as…
Small Fish Are Often The Sweetest
-Australia is a country with a very sizeable land mass and it’s usually only the big profile cities which get mentioned in property market commentary within the media. Even the small percentage of sophisticated property investors who take advantage of the wonderful opportunities that select regional locations have to offer tend to stick to bigger townships which act as service centres.
PROJECT 550:
-PROJECT 550: Propertyology releases significant research report. Listen to the interview with Kevin Turner on 4BC
“Investment Strategies (Simon Pressley talks with Margaret Lomas of Property Success)”
-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrA0njz7Fl4
I’d Be Happy To Live Here
-“I’D BE HAPPY TO LIVE HERE” As advisors and educators, the PROPERTYOLOGY team regularly remind our clients that “beauty is in the eye of the beholder”. What is important to one person is always going to be different to another. For many clients, that means remembering that the colour of…
Bubble? Let’s Look At Some Context
-After doing very little from 2003 to 2008, the Sydney property market is now in its third consecutive year of good growth.
Some commentators are talking about Sydney being in a ‘bubble’.
Avoid Making These Basic Mistakes
-The more that one knows about a topic the better their ability is to make astute decisions. When it comes to investing in property, there are several very common mistakes that people make. In this video we share the top 3 mistakes investors make when searching for their next location
One Property, Two Incomes
-On face value, it sounds like a very astute strategy – buy one investment property which has two dwellings on it and collect twice the rent. There’s more to investing in properties like this than most people consider. Propertyology managing director, Simon Pressley, explains why he wouldn’t invest in a…
Great Investment With Cream On Top
-When it comes to investing in property, there are lots of things to consider. As far as PROPERTYOLOGY is concerned, potential for capital growth over the medium term should be number one on the list! Every single week, PROPERTYOLOGY spends hours upon hours researching the property economics of locations all…
Simon Pressley: Australian Real Estate Hall Of Fame
-Propertyology’s very own, Simon Pressley, has received arguably the most prestigious award in Australian real estate, having been inducted into the Real Estate Institute of Australia’s (REIA) Hall of Fame. Simon received the highly acclaimed accolade after winning the national award for Buyer’s Agent of the Year for…
Our Award Winning Formulae
-Watch this short video to see how we can help you find the right property, in the right location, at the right price.
Avoid Being A Creature Of Habit
-A share investor wouldn’t buy shares in Qantas purely because that was their preferred airline. If they did, they would have grossly under-achieved. Why is it then that a majority of property investors don’t even consider investing in locations outside of their home town? Australia is a big place. Watch…
Analysis Paralysis?
-PROPERTYOLOGY recently worked with first time property investor, John. A full time worker, single father and short on time, John had asked his father Tony to help him with arranging his property investment. Together, Tony and John had worked themselves into a bit of a frenzy! With a real interest in…
Property Economics
-A lot of property investors say that they don’t like shares because they don’t understand share markets. We suggest that most property investors don’t really understand property markets either. There is a big difference between understanding the ‘neighbourhood’ and understanding ‘the market’. To really understand ‘the market’, one needs to…
