Maximize their growth potential

It is time for investors put in their future shows and start evaluating the financial perspectives for the new year.

BY CATHERINE CASHMORE

Taking into account the current market flat and the negative press surrounding sales, only those vendors who need to sell in 2011 are likely to do so. However demand buyer seeks to establish to increase now we have some clarity about greater banking competition and Australia indicating interest rates Reserve Bank "can be waiting for a while.

The Victorian State election resulted in a victory for Ted Baillieu and fresh optimism comes with a new face. As well as incentives to buy in rural suburbs, are likely to see a boost when (and if) metropolitan Melbourne Ted Baillieu price promised next cut 20 percent of stamp duty for first home buyers to play July 1, 2011 in properties under $600,000.

However until that restricts supply once more, and clears the capital shares in the market, the window of opportunity for buyers stays open - even for a limited time!

There has been a slight downtrend in the number of foreign students and immigrants who come to our shores, however population continues to grow and there is not enough 'family' accommodation appropriate to the need to comply. It is important to understand when it comes to shortage of stock, we are not talking about a lack of ownership.

Plans have already been rushed through to an increase of 35 per cent rumoured to existing apartments in Melbourne in the middle of numerous complaints from residents and councils offer. Skyscraper culture has shifted the market towards opted for one demographic, but not to meet the undersupply of single-family and middle-income households. Skyscrapers of rabbit hutches or Luxury Penthouses will be little advantage to homebuyers, similar to the construction of new properties in neverlands away with only a 'promise' schools and transport facilities improves.

As part of an investor must aim to lower your risk profile while also maximizing gains. In a strong market most properties sells well, however in the descending phase of a cycle of property, only the properties that attract competitive activity buyer can achieve the maximum price. Therefore go clear of the culture of skyscrapers and concentrate on households will always attract demand. Here are some suggestions:

Find the rose among thorns

In a soft market high supply, is the scarcity that sustains growth factor. A unit in a block of apartments is unlikely that attract as much attention as an apartment in a small boutique development. Focus on homes that stand out among the crowd.

Unit or home?

Properties of perform differently depending on the suburb are in and it is important to understand the profile of dominant buyer area you are looking for. For example, the suburbs of the city center are high density with a landscape that has apartments and houses. Areas farther from the feature separate town houses and generally attract families. Buy a property that suits the characteristics of suburb, instead of following a set formula.

Location

A property sitting vacant costs money, buy one that will attract a tenant in the long term. Being close to transport and shops is important, but also think about position. Nobody wants to live in a main road, opposite a rail line, or oval school noisy. Location is equally important for homebuyers and renters.

Renewed or original?

Refurbished properties attract the interest of emotive homebuyers and command a premium price. If you are looking for an investment, interior design should not be the main objective. Remember that the price paid to top dictate short term growth. The interior of an old or tired will give potential 'value-added' and with a low cost of renewal may still attract a good tenant in the long term.

Don't be afraid to seek advice

Purchase of property should not be stressful, however if you are moving many sleepless nights, not have Mieda seek advice. Choose a lawyer who specializes in the purchase of the property buyer to avoiding those who also have a hand in the sale of the property. (This includes promotion of provider practice). Make sure in advance are according to a fixed fee: not one that is a percentage based on the amount you pay.

Leg work

Finally, if you go just to be prepared for a lot of calculations! Attend as many open for inspections, auctions and local events as possible and ask lots of questions along the way! Investment property is not difficult if you move forward armed with caution and education. Once you have made your first purchase, could be on your way to a billionaire property portfolio.

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Important how it is Calendar property markets?

I heard often stating that the time is everything, when investing, but allow you a little secret - it is not really the case.
BY MICHAEL YARDNEY

Synchronization is one of the most misunderstood concepts with regard to investment. The truth is that successful investors know how to create wealth at any time in a cycle.

Course inopportune purchase property matters. Don't want to buy a property at the height of the pen property, and then wait two or three years before starting to increase in value.

But successful investors find that time is not really important.

Have noticed how some investors seem well in good times and do even better in bad times? Market timing is not really important to them.

On the other hand others do poorly in good times and even worse in bad times. Market timing seems to have little effect on them either. Interesting huh?

What differentiates this small group of investors with successful crowd?

The fact that successful investors management make money, while unsuccessfully investors lose money at the same stage of the property cycle suggests that it is not your outer world that determines whether making or losing money, it is something inside them.

Many would say that their knowledge, but I don't think that it is absolutely right. Be sure to have a level of knowledge and financial fluidity that lacks the average; investor However the knowledge itself only does successful investors.

Which allows some people to become Super investors success is their way of thinking - the way they think about money and wealth.

While some people are concerned about the falling prices of home or 'property bubble' news outbreak, others see the current market as the best in times property. Higher rates of interest, fall of affordability and market uncertainty has created an opportunity for seizing assets at great prices. These people see abundance.

Yes, while some investors get in the game, taking advantage of some of the best conditions for purchase of property investors they have experienced a number of years, others are waiting for the moment that is perfect.

Yesterday I spoke with someone who had been waiting for over 10 years for the moment that 'just' to start investing in property.
The time will never be 'just right'. There will always be problems, situations, circumstances, obstacles, fears, doubts and things that you will have to overcome. The time will never be perfect.

Ten years ago, this person saw some obstacles and not go into real estate investments. If did you, most likely, wherever that bought your property would be more than duplicate value now, even if he had made a mistake and paid a little too or purchased on the wrong street.

Wealth is attracted to people who are decisive and committed. If he is waiting for the moment be perfect - the moment ever will be perfect for you.

Currently property investors are offered a unique window of opportunity; We are in a buyers market.

Funnily I found that most buyers delayed and not purchased in a market of buyers - but sophisticated investors.

The list is long of rich Australian property investor who sowed the seeds of its portfolio in previous recessions, 'notably poor calendar' market. These successful investors were occupied by doing, while others were pondering.

I am certain five years from now there will be a group of successful property investors who tell stories of buying properties when everyone advised not to do so, when everything seemed difficult, when packaged rates of interest, when the media was uncertain - now banks.

Michael Yardney is director of investment property of Metropole, a best-selling author and one of the leading experts in the creation of wealth through the property Australia strategists. Subscribe to his e-revista in www.propertyupdate.com.au. For more information about Michael visit www.metropole.com.au.

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Greater ownership of 2010 myth

Greater ownership of 2010 myth was probably the assertion that Australia was a 'property bubble' which was about to explode.

BY MICHAEL YARDNEY

It all started when 'apocalyptic Economist' Steve Keen predicted years ago Australia would be dropping the price of housing. Clumsily for him, average house prices came up for up to 40 percent, after Dr. Keen made a very public statement that sell their house in late 2008, Sydney, just prior to the Sydney market recovered and values in your suburb soared. OOPS!

The Economist magazine also said Australia property was overvalued. In fact has reached the same conclusion for years. But this time suggested that our property markets were overvalued by 61 percent based on current share price of the House of quotas and of historic proportions.

Then Jeremy Grantham, legend which, on the basis of their calculation in the premise of housing investment trades around 7.5 times today front family income to about 3.5 times in the early days, also saw a bubble. And of course the International Monetary Fund (IMF) cautioned that while were our property values. Curiously Grantham and IMF since then have lowered their warnings.

So is our property market really so overpriced and a bubble waiting to burst?

Curiously, I have read similar comments magazine The Economist, year after year and heard the apocalyptic economists make similar predictions over the years and meanwhile property values only have kept increasing.

I guess that it would be his argument: "Yes, the bubble is only getting bigger and bigger means Australia is directed to a larger property falls as an alien."

Why don't think houses in Australia fall in value as did foreign?

In some areas property values have been declining, and are probably a little farther from their highs, especially because interest rates increase next year after. This is happening in some of the outer suburbs and lower socio-economic suburbs, as well as regional Australia and Gold Coast. But our global market might collapse because the foundations of current, including our strong economy property, rise of wages, population growth, rising costs of construction and the shortage of housing in the suburbs of our inner ring and a half, isolate a property crash Australia. The problem is that these remain economists analyze Australian properties as if they were actions - is like comparing apples with oranges.
Remember, in Australia 70 percent of the properties is purchased by owner-occupiers. And one of the things that keeps pushing our property up prices is that, in general, these owners all want to live in the same areas. If you think, 70% of our population lives in one of the eight major capital cities and most of these people want to live in the suburbs of inner ring and environment, near the city, near amenities and near their jobs.

Secondly, Australia does not have full of empty houses suburbs waiting financier as the sales. Instead we are not building insufficient homes. And in spite of our growing population dropping lately, continues to grow at a faster pace than the more developed nations.

Certainly some Australians now have problems with the affordability of housing and are postponing their home buying decisions. But people still need a roof over their heads. People are still married and people are still getting divorced, some have babies and others have to move house for their jobs.

If they cannot afford the luxury of buying a House to rent one, therefore the vacancy rates are casualties unprecedented and pushing up rents.

However growth of prices is leveling

Our property markets have changed: there is no wait type capital growth in 2011 which many of us enjoyed in the last year or two.

The Reserve Bank has deliberately put speed bumps on the road. Interest rates have increased to delay our burgeoning markets property and a measure of the economy in general, in the end.

What this means is to buy any property and with the hope of make it a good investment only work in this new era in the property. Now is the time to buy well in areas beyond the averages and buy properties that can add value.

Indeed, we have a two-speed property market with properties rising in some areas and not in others. Values will keep growing in Interior, more prosperous suburbs and not so much on the outside, working-class areas and regional Australia.

But our markets are not going to crash and it is hoped that it will hear us much less bubbles in 2011.

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Should investors cooling their heels?

As the rise of the real estate markets are replaced by a period of slower property price growth, what an investor does it do?

BY MICHAEL YARDNEY

With the prospect of some falls in the value of the properties, I know that some beginning investors are concerned by its recent acquisition, while others who were contemplating entering the market are waiting to see the market 'down'.

First, if you recently bought a property intended to possess it for a while, probably has little to fear. We all know that the real estate market is cyclical. It has its periods of flat and small falls times, but in properties of restored to long term continue to rise in value.

If, on the other hand, were hoping to enrichment fast or is expected to renew or develop your property and selling it for a quick ball, it is possible that in a bit of a shock.

In these markets flat property there is little chance of a quick scratch when it comes to property.

However if you're looking to buy a property with a long-term perspective, could now be time to take advantage of what has become a market of buyers. Especially in this time of year when you will find some motivated sellers who are interested to move on by the end of the year.

Now might be a good time to make cheeky offers and take advantage of these motivated sellers.

Sure, markets can fall a bit more, but he is not 'buying market'. I suggest buying a good price even if the market falls a little more, purchased either type property.

But as always, should simply not buy any property: buy the best property that can be, as when the market turns, is going to be the best properties: properties of 'Class': increase in value in the first place such as the type of property that is always in strong demand.

We comply

1. Do your research. Find areas that will have long-term capital growth and will continue as well.

2. Find motivated providers that sell its properties than the price of intrinsic value.

3. And in particular search properties where you can add value. This is the best strategy in the current property market.

If you're in the market of goods roots long term has little to fear. In fact it is a good time to buy the type of property which would have to pay more for the beginning of the year.

Michael Yardney is director of investment property of Metropole, a best-selling author and one of the leading experts in the creation of wealth through the property Australia strategists. Subscribe to his e-revista in www.propertyupdate.com.au. For more information about Michael visit www.metropole.com.au.

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Disclosing lender valuations

To banks and other lenders be obliged by law to give their ratings to loans to customers?
BY TONY OR ' DWYER

Below is part of a note sent to my local Federal Member recently which suggests that while the reform of banking is currently under consideration by the Government, the Treasurer can look of legally requiring banks and other lenders to deliver copies of their ratings to their loan clients.
A colleague at the same time the same note sent to the Senate Committee, which is also considering Bank reform:

"Probably not remember, but after he was elected for the first time, I came to lobby you for protection of consumers."
"A question then raised was the need that lenders property be obliged by law to provide copies of their ratings borrowers."
"You please raise this with the Treasurer, if he is susceptible to some changes in his proposed reform package."

Below is part of a proposal to the Honourable Lindsay Tanner (such as the Minister of Finance) in October 2008 where he gave some background to my concern:

"In the last 10 years has included part of my legal practice rescue property into overpriced businesspeople in as a result of 'property spruikers' tactics." Most of these bailouts has been successful. Implied that persons purchase contracts before that had been resolved and released big mortgages. None of the matters that I was never involved in going to the courts. All participating properties not only sold to Queensland Queensland but also (and often more) people from interstate and overseas. During this same time played (and remain) a prominent role in media in warning property buyers and investors about 'spruikers property' and their tactics.

"It seems that these tactics have changed very little during this period." Spruikers property invariably work in collaboration with property agents roots in-the-know, brokers, financial advisors, lenders, appraisers, conveyancers, lawyers and others. While Queensland is one of the few jurisdictions that tried to legislate against the practices of spruikers, this state of property and motor dealers agents Act 2000 - despite some 20 amendments in eight years more or less - has unprotected adequately consumers nor effectively prevent the perpetuation of overpriced property scams. "

First thing you should do legislatively is to remedy the mischief caused by lenders need not disclose ratings to customers. In many cases, lenders have been aware of ratings low properties being bought were expensive, but due to the high ratings for collateral properties, their loans offers stacked. Lenders were comfortable with equity total had security on. However, few folk that want to proceed with the purchase if you knew that your lender property investment valuation was considerably less than the price paid.

Do you think make lenders to disclose their ratings to customers? Have you had a bad experience with a spruiker property?

Tim O'Dwyer is a lawyer of Queensland watchdog@argonautlegal.com.au

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