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Whether you’re at the beginning of your investment journey or have an established property portfolio, Smart Property Investment helps you build, grow and manage your property purchases. We equip investors with essential insight to new hot spots, suburb performance, tried and tested investment strategies, and tax and legal updates. Most importantly, Smart Property Investment is by investors, for investors. We have our own property portfolio and team of investment advisers, and have an intimate understanding of what property investors really need to know to be successful in the Australian market. Our team regularly shares its own wins and challenges, as do our range of expert commentators.

04/11/2026

Bringing a house up to rental standard can come in around 20 to 30 grand: walls, carpets, a basic kitchen, a basic bathroom and a bit of landscaping. Engineers and builders, the most analytical buyers, assume that same renovation runs to 100 grand, even 200 with the marble and the fancy finishes. Watch the gap between what analytical buyers expect and what a rental-grade refresh actually costs.

04/11/2026

: Arjun Paliwal and Jack Fouracre unpack what the latest rate rise means for investors: from repayments to borrowing capacity, and why the action is shifting to third-tier and non-bank lenders. Tune in: https://bit.ly/3WNRZUV

04/11/2026

Pre-approvals still count, and some lenders lock in the assessment rate applied for, so a rate rise is already worked into their buffer. Rate rises get passed on quickly, while a cut can take three weeks to flow through. Watch the buffer behind the pre-approval and the window, which some lenders stretch to six months.

04/11/2026

$292,000 in 2017, over $800,000 today: the Brisbane house his own biases would have kept him out of.
He bought it in Bellbird Park. Driving by, he hadn't realised the slope up the drive was that big and didn't feel comfortable with the pocket; had he seen that in 2017, he says, he would not have bought it.

04/11/2026

Investors with strong negotiation skills can gain the upper hand over their competition, securing stronger opportunities and saving thousands. Here are the top 5 lessons learned over thousands of negotiations

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04/11/2026

The RBA lifted the cash rate by 0.25 percentage points to 4.85 per cent, an 18-year high.
Finni principal and mortgage broker Eva Loisance says the move risks deepening negative sentiment and that higher interest rates don’t solve Australia’s inflation problem.

03/11/2026

A 40% deposit into a block of units is 'generally' positive, depending on the starting yield, and that positivity comes from the capital you brought in, not the asset itself. In commercial, even a huge deposit can still leave the asset not positive, because net yield decides.

03/11/2026

Point Cook builder Lance Ferris was convicted and fined $150,000 after abandoning a Footscray house and walking away with the owners' $580,000. An independent report puts demolition and replacement at a potential $1.3 million, against more than $400,000 to fix and finish.

03/11/2026

Most of the properties that are selling right now are selling because they have warts, and those warts may not be curable. It becomes a money pit, while properties with good fundamentals that make investment sense are not heavily discounted.

03/11/2026

A corporate job is never that safe. The backup plan is building wealth in the background, so it's not necessarily reliant on your day job.

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