Archive for July, 2011


Assessing the ‘walkscore’ of a project/location

It’s often said that location is the most important factor in property investment. Very often, non-resident investors rely on information provided by marketing agents/consultants when making a decision to invest. Now you can ‘beef up’ your research efforts with an amazing website that calculates a ‘walkscore’ and it is really nothing but assessing the convenience [...]

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Negative Gearing – for non-resident property investors?

I have been asked not once but many times how non-resident property investors can benefit from buying investment properties in Australia, particularly when they can’t utilize the ‘losses’ in property to lower their taxable income (work income and rental income from property) and benefit from ‘negative gearing’ like what tax residents do in Australia. The [...]

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News from RBA on interest rate and changes to stamp duty in the State of Queensland

This afternoon, the Reserve Bank of Australia has left interest rates unchanged (since November 2010). The official cash rate remains at 4.75% p.a. (this is the wholesale rate before banks’ margins) The most competitive variable rates are around 7.00% p.a. Monthly repayments (P&I over 30 yrs) will be approx $662.00 per month per $100K borrowed. [...]

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