We all love our outdoor spaces, and if your investment property has a garden, it can play a major part in attracting and retaining tenants, as well as significantly boosting your property’s rental value. But while many tenants like to have the outdoor space, they may not have a green thumb, or indeed the time.

Whatever stage you’re at on the property ladder, a home owner looking to move, a first-home buyer or an investor, stamp duty (or transfer duty as it’s now known as in New South Wales), is a significant cost in the buying process; according to e61 Institute-PropTrack research, this tax is now costing property buyers up.

Landlords looking to cut costs may be thinking they can save on management fees by managing the property themselves. However, once they understand what a property manager actually does, the perceived cost saving in property management fees becomes a false economy, particularly as property management fees are a tax deductible expense. Let’s take a basic.

With interest rates remaining steady, and you’re thinking about refinancing to buy an investment property, ideally you get pre-approved for a mortgage before you start looking. This will give you a better idea of how much you can afford to spend and will make the property buying process go more smoothly. But with all the.