As a property investor, what are you actually investing in? Things sure have changed over the last 100 years or so. I was looking over the shoulder of a student doing a deal in regional NSW the other day. The house was old – built sometime around 1916, though the council records didn’t go back […]
[PODCAST] How To Quickly Find The Bargains And Opportunities In A New Area
It’s all well and good knowing your area when it comes to finding good deals but what happens when you start looking at a new area? …Or in my case when I wanted to find out what kind of opportunities there were while I was on holiday in the UK. How do you quickly find […]
The one skill that can make you thousands extra on every deal
What if I told you that there was something happening in your life, …probably every day… That for the most part you are unaware of, and not in control of… Yet, if you saw it for what it was, you could start making extra money on every single deal you do. If I told […]
[PODCAST] The $2k Spend That Can Return $50k Or More At Sale
Some houses you walk into and it just feels right. Others feel wrong. Sometimes you don’t even know what it is… it just feels wrong. If a house feels wrong I guarantee you, it’s going to hurt the sale price. It may even mean the difference between selling and not selling. Joining me on the […]
Creating The Best Uplift: Is Old Or New Better?
At some point in your property career you will have to ask yourself this question: New Vs Old… which is better? At some point everyone will encounter this. Do I buy new or old… If I buy new do I buy house and land or buy land and build? If I buy old, where is […]
10 Hidden Comparable Sales Tips That Means More Profit When You Sell
At some point, one way or another, chances are that you will need to sell a property or three. Too many people get this wrong. There’s an art to selling a property (and getting the right price for it). Most people just pick 3 agents. And choose the best price (according to the agents) again… […]
6 stealth auction-killing tricks that you’ve never heard of…
Auctions can be brutal. And heartbreaking. Especially if you don’t know what you’re doing. And there are more and more of them. So if you want to win, you’ve got to get this. In today’s podcast I share my top secret tips. Secrets I’ve used to win auctions… Even when the competition is ruthless! ==> […]
WTF? Auction boom in Perth…
This has got me puzzled. Seems that times are a-changing in Perth. Is it a new love affair with auctions, or something else? There’s a strange story in the AFR about an auction boom over in Perth. It’s a bit of a riddle. I wonder if you have the answer. Apparently, the rate of auctions […]
Are property prices ‘crazy’?
I keep hearing people say that house prices are ‘crazy’. But relative to what? I remember quite some time ago, could be 15 years ago I guess, I was looking at a property in the Brisbane suburb of St Lucia. St Lucia is right next door to the Uni, and this was a decent doer-upper […]
Firm hand kung-fu
“Someone had even written the C-word on one of the bedroom walls.” That was Anna, talking about the last property inspection she’d done. She owned an investment property near one of the Universities in Brisbane, and had rented it out to three students. And now it was a mess. She showed me some of the […]