Property Management

We focus a lot on the family-friendly aspects of suburbs on this blog, but sometimes, we feel the need to mention things to do that don’t involve the entire family. The Morley Recreation Centre offers some great programs for adults who just want to get out and meet their neighbours or those who want to exercise among like-minded people. Here

When purchasing investment properties in Perth, it is extremely important to have your priorities straight. Many people think that buying an expensive property in an “upper class” neighbourhood is the best recipe for success. If you have a lot of money to invest and a solid cash flow from business of other properties, if the numbers work out, that can

Due to a spate of reasonably-priced, investor-friendly planned communities, many investors are buying new homes as investment properties in the Perth area. While this may seem like a turnkey solution to many and it is natural to assume that a new home will be tenant-ready at the handover of the key from the builder, there are some steps that you

Courtesy of our property management team, we would like to tell you about another family-friendly Perth suburb: Morley. Morley is located 10km from the Perth CBD. It had a population of 20,301 according to the 2011 Census, with equal numbers of males and females. The median age in Morley is 38 years, which places them one year above Australia’s average.

When it’s time to sell your property, you always want to get the highest price possible. However, we sometimes tend to overprice our properties and they sit on the market for too long. The longer you sit on the market the lower down the online search results you will go, until you get to the point where the demand is

One of the essential traits we like to see that makes a suburb suitable for investment properties is an eye toward the future. We have stated many times here that our buyer’s agents always recommend purchasing investment properties in Perth suburbs that are poised for capital growth. We think that Bayswater is such a suburb. Bayswater: a City on the

Those of us who have been in the property investment field for awhile, especially in Perth, have stories of the investor who sold their property right before the suburb shot up in value or the investor that hung on to a lemon for longer than they should have. Some investors seem to have the midas touch, buying at the right

On 19 December 2013, Genworth announced that they will no longer underwrite new or off-the-plan property loans when being purchased as part of a self-managed super fund (SMSF.) According to their announcement, they will no longer accept any new property, loosely defined as any property that is less than 12 months old. The intent is to keep people from investing

While investment property in Perth suburbs is more popular than investment property in Perth CBD, the Perth CBD is still a great place to invest if you have a long term focus. While our buyer’s agents and property management team are among the first to recognise buying patterns in most of its suburbs, we also want to remind people that

If you are selling an investment property or home in Perth, you want it to be on the market for as short a time as possible and you want to sell it for as high a price as possible. Ideally, if the property is priced and marketed correctly you will have buyers bidding against each other to pay you more

In a development that is important for buying and selling investment property in Perth and across Australia, Aussie Home Loans recently released the results of a survey in which home buyers were asked what factors were the most important in their decision. The most astounding development was that schools ranked only 12th in factors that go into the decision making

The market for investment property in Perth has become much more active as of late due to the lowering interest rates improving the returns available from investment properties. While this has been great for Perth and other parts of Australia, it has also resulted in a lot of small investors who don’t have any idea of what they are doing