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During a finance subject in Uni we learnt about the optimal risky portfolio with two securities. That was pretty simple to work out with Excel. But what happens when there's like six different securities? Anyone know or have any Excel sheets that does this type of calculation, or know books...

Hey, Just wondering where I could get the historical (up to 7 years) average rental yield for Sydney (on monthly basis). I've gotten the vacancy rates from REINSW and Variable Mortgage Rate from RBA. Now I need to get the rental yield for me to take a look at the correlation between those...

Recently, there have been reports that the Sydney vacancy rates have dropped to 0.8% and 0.7%, for metropolitan and inner city, respectively. Just wondering, where I could get some data from? And anyway I can get more specific figures e.g. for Western Sydney?

Just wondering, are the agents' commission for managing your property negotiable? Currently, I think they are charging me around 6%. Are such rate reasonable?

I was talking to a friend today who mentioned that he leases part of his home to his cousin and get tax benefits at the end of the year. Is this possible? What are the requirements?