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The Gold Coast in South East Queensland has ht it's peak season for rentals of houses,townhouses and units, but supply cannot keep up with the demand.

Both tourists and locals are joining the fight for existing rental properties.With the New Year, many people's lives change: change in career, move to University,a sea change, migration to Australia from overseas all contribute to the increasing demand for properties to rent.

As we have been saying for a long time now, there will be a huge shortage of rental properties and as such landlords can be assured of their property being fully tenanted increasing their yield.

Latest forecasts being trumpeted on the TV and radio are that rental prices will increase this year, 2010 by 8 per cent thus  increasing yield substantially.

Happy investing

Happy New Year

Now that our short Christmas holiday is over we are back to the grindstone.

Most of the property developers have been closed for the holidays, so we have been able to spend some time looking for new investment properties to add to our list. The range is now much wider ranging up to nearly $2,000,000 for those who likethe idea of an investment property and a luxury holiday resort to stay in sometine or retire to later on.

We have noticed a big spike in the amount of enquiries and viewing on our web site, so obviously this is going to be a great year.

We wonder could this be due to the publicity given to the massive increase in population here in Australia. Over 300,000 people arrived in Australia last year plus a baby boom plus a huge migration to Queensland meant that rentals will increase about 5-6% a year over the next three years, and of course there will be a shortage of rental properties to be rented as ther is a vast shortfall in the amount being built.So now is a good time to get in to the market rather than wait till it has gone up again.

Have a great New Year and Happy investing!

What's dog washing got to do with buying investment property?

Today people are so time poor that the fastest growing businesses are lawn mowing, car washing, online shopping and dog washing! Can you imagine Grandpa having his dog washed?

Why is it so? Busy people save that time to make some more money than they could save by doing it themselves.

In the time it takes to do their Christmas shopping we can have found a residential investment property, shown them what has been selected and it's all done and dusted . Generally takes one day, once we have assessed what is the best way for them to go. 

So why waste time when you don't have it to waste?

Today your time poor friend or business associate or your employee who is too time poor and would like an investment property - who always says - "I  must do that one day when I get around to it", doesn't know where to start and is so time poor that he doesn't have the time to look should give us a call at Realistic Property and buy himself the best Christmas present ever.... A brand new property! A present that will save taxes and build future wealth - what a Christmas present!!

Remember big or small, we've got ‘em all

Go Ballistic Go Realistic

Realistic Property Pty Ltd   0416243649

Tired of gardens and gardening! - The move to apartments by residential tenants

Recently, townhouses and apartments have been very popular. Why?

It seems that many people do not have the time or the inclination to bother with a yard, gardens etc. They are simply too busy.

As almost all townhouse and apartment blocks have an onsite manager they let them do all those tasks. they look after the gardens, swimming pools, barbaque areas, car parking areas and stairwells.

You only have to clean your own messy place!

From an investor's point of view, they know that the onsite manager lives on site, knows when tenants come and go, so they cannot say that they have been away for 3 weeks and could not pay the rent because the onsite manager sees them come and go every day.

If your tenants decide to have some late night shenanigans like parties, domestics etc he will look after it and importantly, your property.

Compare that to owning a house and the property manager's office is 5 km's away.that would be a lot less management of your property - that's for sure.

Remember big or small - we've got 'em all

Go Ballistic  Go Realistic and have a great day.  

Realistic Property Investment property specialists in Queensland  

 

Boats and Real Estate? How are they related? 

A while ago I spent quite a lot of time talking to people, my next door neighbour, dealers, and googling for all sorts of information about buying a boat.

I have never owned a boat and so it was an interesting exercise. As a total novice it was quite a challenge. Which questions to ask, how big, what sort of motor, 4 stroke or 2 stroke, cabin, bowrider on and on it went.

How to make the right decision? One where I would not lose money or end up with the wrong type of boat for my needs- or what I imagined my needs were.

I wished that I could have just said to someone whom I trusted: Please advise me, here is what I want to do, how much I think I would like to spend and armed with their good advice go and buy my new boat. Or better still, have them help me in the selection, where to buy it from what else do I need to go with it and so on.

Last week I thought- I gues this is how a lot of people are: Not sure how to make the right decision when it comes to buying an investment property, never invested in property before, where to buy, an apartment, a house and land package, new, used, cheap, expensive, how much to borrow, what about bodies corporate, insurance of the property, who to rent it out etc etc.

It seems to becoming quite common for us at Realistic Property to have calls from people who are seeking exactly that kind of help. They know there are a lot of "sharks in the water" who only think of the commission and selling only what they have on their books that day- who don't want to spend the time to analyze what is going to be right for that person and then finding it, anwering the oodles of questions that need to be asked and answered and finally end up with a happy client.

We like to think that our unique selling proposition is simple- we tell the truth- and - guard our integrity- for our client's sake.

By the way.... we bought the boat, a bow rider, already we are having a lot of fun with it. We've learned a lot on the way past. And oh gee, it could have been so much easier if we could have met that "right person" to guide us from when we started to being "up on the plane"