Tax hurdles trip property investors
INVESTORS own around two million homes in Australia, and every year thousands claim deductions they are not entitled to and fall foul of the Australian Taxation Office.
The result can be a kindly warning or a significant fine and large interest bill.
The tax office says it is investors’ responsibility to get their tax returns right [...]
High interest rates benefit investors
What happens if rates go up? In today’s low-interest-rate environment one of the common questions property investors ask is, “What happens if I buy now and interest rates skyrocket, like back in the 1980’s?”
An understandable concern and today’s historically low interest rates can’t be sustained forever because at some point the economy will begin [...]
How to profit from the next property boom!!
Property investors should plan ahead in order to take advantage of the next upturn in the property cycle, according to quantity surveying firm Asset Economics.
“Property booms never last (and) neither do property busts,” the firm says in its latest newsletter.
To take advantage of the next boom, investors need to buy for long-term capital growth [...]