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Property investment should never be about ploughing your hard-earned money into the next ‘hot-spot’. Looking at unbiased information – facts and figures – is a better way [...]

If you look back over the years in property investment magazines there is always an edition where some so-called boffin is listing the next ‘hot-spots’. These are usually regional centres or [...]

We get asked a lot of questions about property investment. Often they follow a similar theme, so we’ve started Ask Nick! – a new segment to get your burning property investment questions [...]

How you can live where you want – and get a foot into the property market? Is it better to rent and buy an investment property? Today you’ll learn how the rentvesting strategy works, [...]

It’s tough to get ahead these days isn’t it? You may be living the great Aussie dream of owning your own home. But you’ve also got utility bills, insurance premiums, shopping bills, and little [...]

Nick Menz is the National Director of Acquisitions for the ASPIRE Advisor Network. In this interview, you’ll get an insight on mini development properties, including how to identify them, [...]

I am writing this on the way back home to Melbourne after a short stay in Hong Kong. For those who have never been there, one of the first things you notice is the immense density of housing on [...]

They glide gracefully and silently, leaving a bloody trail of utter devastation on poor unsuspecting victims. Yet the property shark can be quite easy to identify – and avoid – when [...]

Depreciation laws have officially changed if you are a property investor who buys a second-hand residential property – you can no longer claim depreciation as a deduction on plants and [...]

Have you built a house as an investment and wondered why the budget blew out so phenomenally? Filled with confidence, you thought you’d run though a foolproof detailed profit and loss analysis [...]