Multiple Incomes - Residential In the residential market the most common of these are an entire block of units, complete residential apartment buildings, or a very basic example would be a house that rents out both upstairs and downstairs, (or a house and a granny flat...
Multiple Income Streams While direct cash positives properties can be sourced buying single residential houses, the yield or passive rental return is usually higher when you purchase multi-use or multi-dwelling premises i.e. properties that have more than one income stream. These properties come in the form of...
Housing in Rural Areas and Factors to Consider We have had a lot of need for housing in those growth areas. We have had a big push into those areas where the big money is being paid; where people are moving in. They want properties to...
High Demand and Regional Areas The ‘rule of two’ as previously mentioned in an earlier blog is only a rule of thumb and it does not apply to commercial property. If you’re taking tax into account it’s more like 1.6 to 1.7 rather than 2. When...
Looking at Rural Areas There has been a lot of emphasis on the rural areas, particularly the mining areas in Australia and rural areas in New Zealand (although in New Zealand hardly anything is remote rural) if it is not very far out of the major...
Recourse and infrastructure to look for cash positive When you look at resources like uranium, I would say ‘watch this space’, because it is an up and coming resource. So, where these towns being created and what are does that mean for the property prices and...
Things to look for cash positive When we are talking about the fundamentals of actually buying a direct cash positive outright, there are certain characteristics that you are going to have to start to look at. Strong rental yield areas; mining towns are probably the first...
Stigma attached to buying in regional areas It is understood that a lot of people who live in big cities do have a prejudice. You are going to have ‘ratbag’ tenants in Sydney just as much as you’re going to have ‘ratbag’ tenants in Broken Hill....
Cash Positives in Regional Areas Generally speaking, a direct cash positive will be found in regional areas where the demand for ownership of properties is not necessarily as high as in the major cities. What you need to look for is a regional area that has...
Cash Positives in Lower Socioeconomic Areas CASH POSITIVE PURCHASING . . . WHERE TO FIND THEM AND HOW THEY WORK Lower socioeconomic areas will tend to give you a higher yield than more prestigious areas. Lower socioeconomic areas will generally have a lower entry point for purchase,...