Book description
Learn to:
- Make real estate a part of your long-term investment strategy
- Pick the right properties for profit
- Spot the best deals on financing
- Understand the new rules for purchasing properties using SMSFs
Become a successful property investor with this user-friendly guide
Are you thinking about real estate as a long-term wealth opportunity?
Whether you're interested in a house, apartment, vacant land or
commercial property, the second Australian edition of Property
Investing For Dummies explains what you need to know to ensure
you invest wisely. Discover how to build a winning property portfolio
with practical advice on everything from choosing the right property
at the right price to financing your goals with SMSFs, and much more.
- Decide which type of property is right for you Â- choose an
investment option that fits in with your financial plans
- Assemble a reliable support network Â- research and enlist the
help of lenders, buyers' advocates, advisers and other experts
- Explore your finance options Â- learn about mortgage terms,
lending fees and holding property in a self-managed super fund
- Evaluate properties worth pursuing Â- find the right location,
identify value and prepare to bid or make an offer
- Protect your investment Â- discover what it's like to be a
landlord, learn how to insure your property and manage risk
- Build a solid portfolio Â- uncover the secrets to growing
equity, diversifying and building an income stream
Open the book and find:
- How to invest in residential and commercial properties
- Information on using a buyers' advocate
- Advice on shopping for a mortgage
- Tips for owning property with SMSFs
- Steps for signing contracts and leases
- Help with keeping on top of your paperwork
- Secrets for growing your profits
Bruce Brammall is a licensed financial adviser and mortgage broker,
experienced business journalist, finance columnist, best-selling
author and successful property investor. He is the principal adviser
and mortgage broker with Castellan Financial Consulting and Castellan
Lending. Eric Tyson and Robert S. Griswold have written several titles
on personal finance, investing and property management, and are
independently successful investors.