Sunday Blog - Expert property investment insights

With only two more weekends left for the year until Melbourne’s auctions take a break for nine weeks, there is a feel of motivation (and in some cases, desperation) in the air. Some buyers have been searching for weeks, some for months, and we recently met someone who had been searching for a year. Buyers want…

A lovely client of ours enlisted our support to help her find her future home while she juggled the difficulty of balancing ever-changing night shifts at a busy south-eastern hospital. Her brief was simple; she hoped to find a well-lit, secure modern townhouse in a quiet street. Often we assist overseas or interstate buyers who…

We identified a little block of villa units in Ascot Vale earlier this year in our quest for an investment property for a young couple. In a boutique block of four, the unit we had found for past clients was at the rear of the block and had a bonus addition of a huge courtyard on title…

Back in March this year we proudly bid at auction for this skillion roof, daggy two bedroom house in Swan Street Footscray. Our buyers were excited, but not for quite the same reasons. He had seen through it, understood our intrigue and agreed with me that his dreams of renovation could be easily achieved in…

It’s not an unusual occurrence for us to buy for a trusting investor who makes a purchase decision without sighting the property themselves. In fact, that is our job – to guide investors through the steps, mitigate as much risk as possible, share our media clips and pictures of the property we’ve set our sights on…

I had all of the great ingredients for a really fun client brief. $500K-ish budget, capital growth focus, up-and-coming-suburbs, and best of all, a lovely client who was engaged in the whole process and had fabulous questions along the way. We decided to target two main catchments; Sunshine & surrounds and Reservoir/Fawkner. Our aim was to…

A fantastic, third-time client of ours decided to take our advice and diversify his portfolio by adding a piece of Melbourne’s inner-north to it. His mutual love of Victorian cottages and terraces matched mine and we knew that we’d have a challenge on our hands this time with a $650,000 brief targeting quality areas in…

Just this week we had two lovely clients and a prospective new client ask us about our thoughts on a high-rise, high-density apartment they’d each picked out; one in the CBD and one in Docklands. It was an interesting adventure for one who’s preapproval was deemed invalid for the property she’d set her sights on. So while she was…

Investors’ briefs come in all different shapes and sizes. Our various considerations span from budget size, yield requirement, maintenance limits to future opportunities…. and all the while, our investors want Capital Growth. After all, that’s the main goal for most investors. Getting it all seems a holy grail. But when an investor is prepared to…

A delightful couple with a tight brief engaged us to assist them. They’d canvassed North Melbourne and they were keen on the ever-popular University High School Zone. Our first step was to print out the zoning boundaries. The A4 page is pinned on our wall and reminds us daily of the streets which are within…

Recently we had the pleasure of assisting a family with a very special purchase. Being investors themselves, they’d experienced first hand the benefit of capital growth over many years and found themselves seeking out the option of assisting their children into property investing too. They didn’t claim for one minute that they’d chosen perfect properties…

Almost a year ago I met a lovely family who were renting in Yarraville and saving hard for a deposit to buy their own home. Their challenge was to find a home for sub-$500,000. Our initial meeting was hard, because they realised that buying in their much-loved community would be limiting due to their budget affording…