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The Paradox of Choice

Are you struggling to execute on your strategy of buying a property? Are you looking at multiple suburbs, multiple dwelling types, and working in a broad budget range?

You may be challenged by the Paradox of Choice

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The trade off to upsizing

How do you work out if you should sell your first property allowing you to buy in your ideal location, or keep the first property and buy in a location you like, but don’t love?

What are the trade offs? What is the financial outcome of each scenario? Do you have the right information to make an informed decision?

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What the bank doesn't want you to know right now

I wrote the rule book at one of Australia’s leading in financial service companies as to how home loan discounting works - who can get a lower interest rate on their home loan, what level of discount you can get, and the best way to go about it.

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End of year bargains

With summer just around the corner, end of year celebrations and festivities are in full swing. While lots of people and businesses start to wind down, many closing up from mid December this year, I will be purchasing property right up until Dec 24th.

December is a buyer’s market - the time where you have the most leverage to negotiate on price.

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How to find long term property value in the Inner West?

If you live in the Inner West or you are looking to buy there, you would be hard-pressed to not know several infrastructure projects are going on with multiple large construction sites. There are always upsides and downsides … but what are they and how can you benefit?

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