This may not surprise anyone who has already been around the block, but buying investment properties can be hard. There’s so much to take into account, so much to look for! What if the worst happens? What if, when face-to-face with your dream investment, you forget one crucial element that will send your hard-earned cash spiraling down the drain? How on earth are you supposed to keep track of...

Brisbane often cops a bit of flak for being a ‘sleepy city’. Sure, our CBD is fairly tiny when compared to the likes of New York, London and Tokyo, and the stereotype about laid-back Queenslanders may be true, but that don’t mean we can’t rock it when we want to. Beneath the superficial image of a sun-soaked, chilled-out, little tiny city is a world full of glitz and glamour. That is, if...

Seth has some wonderful insights about money, listed in detail from his excellent post. 1) The amount of money you have has nothing to do with whether or not you're a good person. Being good with money is a little like being good with cards. People who are good at playing cards aren't better or worse than anyone else, they're just better at playing crazy eights. 2) Money spent on one thing is...

Looking for opportunity for a suburb to outperform with capital growth? One of the figures we track at Allen Real Estate is to look at a suburbs density ratio (The percentage of strata properties such as townhouses, apartments and villas, as a total of all the housing supply). Suburbs with a very high density ratio, such as Kangaroo Point marked as red in the graphic below, are flashing a...