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Yield & Growth - Your best friends in Real Estate

January 31, 2024

Buyers Investing Landlords

Do you understand yield and growth? In the context of residential investment properties, yield and capital growth are two key metrics that investors often consider assessing along with the performance and potential returns of their investments. Here’s a brief explanation of each: Yield: Yield refers to the income generated by an investment property, expressed as […]

Invest in Property - the Warren Buffett way

January 12, 2024

Buyers Home Owners Investing Landlords Tips

Warren Buffett, one of the most successful investors of all time, is known for his value investing approach and emphasis on long-term investment strategies. While he primarily focuses on stocks, many of his principles can be applied to various investment vehicles, including residential investment properties. Here’s a comparison of the safety of investing as described […]

Is it a good time to sell my investment property?

January 11, 2024

Home Owners Investing Landlords Sellers

This is the most asked question by property owners in the early stages of making a selling decision. However, determining whether it’s a good time for you to sell your residential investment property depends on a variety of factors, including your personal financial goals, the current state of the real estate market and the specific […]

What is the market doing? Is it a good time to sell?

June 20, 2023

Home Owners Investing Landlords Sellers Tips

There will be millions of people making individual decisions based on their personal needs and opinions this year. Current real estate trends vary wildly from state to state, city to city and even suburb to suburb, making the Real Estate market virtually impossible to predict with any accuracy. However, what we do know is that […]

Will Interest Rate rises affect you?

March 8, 2023

Home Owners Investing Landlords Sellers Tips

The Australian cash rate has just hit 3.6% with a prediction of further increases before we see any relief. With 10 consecutive rate rises in as many months and more to come, it has placed significant pressure on homeowners & investors. “The Board expects that further increases in interest rates will be needed over the […]

Big Changes & Big Growth with Pike Property

July 6, 2022

Buyers First Home Buyer Home Owners Investing Landlords Sellers

We are excited to announce big changes & big growth for our business! With the recent purchase of our new corporate office site at 20 Oakey Flat Road, Morayfield (opposite Bunnings) where we propose to build our brand new 400m² office site and also with the new financial year now upon us we decided that now […]

Property Price Check in your Street!

July 22, 2021

Home Owners Landlords Sellers

With prices and demand for residential properties at an all-time high, why are we still seeing properties undersold? There are a number of reasons. One reason is that home sellers have been waiting for the market to improve for years. Every 6 months or so they will call a local agent asking, “How is the […]

Should I sell now or should I wait?

July 8, 2020

Home Owners Sellers

Because of the COVID-19 environment, this is currently the number one question asked by property owners. The answer to this question is simple. It depends! It depends on your circumstances, your location and the type of property you have. When I say it depends…there are several things to consider. Do you need to sell? To […]

Is this Winter the right time to sell?

June 19, 2020

Home Owners Sellers Tips

Prospective home sellers considering listing on the market will be faced with a decision – sell now in winter whilst COVID-19 continues and the cooler weather sets in or wait until spring? The winter vs spring debate rolls around every year with predictions of low or no activity over winter and a plethora of new […]

How to Choose a Great Agent

June 8, 2020

Home Owners Landlords Sellers

So the time has come to sell your home. As a 32-year veteran of the real estate industry I understand that this is a daunting moment in your life and for some it is life changing and exciting. You only get once chance when it comes to selling your home so it makes sense to […]

Setting a time line for your sale

May 4, 2020

Buyers First Home Buyer Home Owners Sellers

Transacting real estate in a defined period of time can be a challenging process. Murphy’s Law dictates that when you need a quick sale the campaign will drag on and when you are in no rush to sell the agent fronts up with an offer after the first showing. The best laid plans usually become […]

Waiting for the market to improve?

March 20, 2020

Buyers Home Owners Sellers

The real estate market is not a single entity. It is millions of people making individual decisions based on their personal needs and opinions. Current real estate trends vary wildly from state to state, city to city and even suburb to suburb, making the real estate market virtually impossible to predict with any accuracy. When […]

Before Buying...

February 13, 2020

Buyers First Home Buyer Home Owners Tips

Buying a home is one of the biggest steps most of us take in life so it’s important to make sure you avoid some of the pitfalls. Here are some tips for those venturing out to buy a property. Buying What You Want Instead of What You Need There are two kinds of buyers; those […]

How to Achieve a Quick Sale

January 31, 2020

Home Owners Sellers Tips

When selling a property, most people have two conflicting emotions. They desire a quick sale, but if that is achieved, they fear that the property may have been undersold. Given that you will only sell your property once, it is imperative to get the highest possible price in the market. Is time on the market […]

Why Good Tenants are More Important Than You Think

January 13, 2020

Investing Landlords

Given you don’t have to spend much time with your tenants, you may think it’s not important who they are. If they pay their rent on time, they’re ok – right? Not quite. Good tenants can actually mean the difference between a high and a low performing investment. In fact, finding a great tenant may […]

Five Questions Potential First Home Buyers Should Ask Themselves

December 13, 2019

Buyers First Home Buyer Tips

Are you, or someone you know, interested in becoming a first home buyer?  There are a few things to consider before diving in.  Here are 5 questions potential first home buyer’s should ask themselves … Is it the right time? Moving house can be stressful and time consuming, so consider whether it’s suitable right now. […]

Is this the One for Me?

November 5, 2019

Buyers

Buying a home is one of the most important and largest financial decisions that you are likely to make. Getting it right will result in years of security and happiness from your home.  As happy as the right purchase makes you, the wrong purchase can become a painful purchase – both emotionally and financially.  Given […]

What should we offer?

October 10, 2019

Buyers Tips

Once you have finally found a suitable home, you inherit a new challenge. What to offer the vendor? There are so many variables when it comes to making the owner an offer. Quite simply, there are more questions than answers once you find a property that meets your needs. Do you make a one off, best offer, […]

Ten tips for paying off your home loan sooner

September 12, 2019

Buyers Home Owners Landlords Tips

These simple strategies will help home owners pay off their home loan in record time, saving tens of thousands of dollars over the life of the mortgage. Shop around, from beginning to end of the loan term – Australia has a competitive mortgage market which changes frequently so why would you stay with one lender […]

Selling with Tenants

August 31, 2019

Landlords Sellers

When a vendor puts their property on the market they more or less work in partnership with their agent to present and market the property for the best price possible. When the property is occupied by a tenant the sales process may be a little more complicated. Most tenants are co-operative and very helpful but […]