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I park in the brisbane airport carpark for a week a month. in June the price went from $75 to $100 per week per car (and theres thousands of them). Imagine owning a property that employs one person to take the money and you can put your rent up 33% pa and the tenants dont leave because its...

I am looking at a property that I thought may make for interesting discussion. Details: - 800sqm block zoned residential - two buildings, house at rear, shop (milkbar) at front - gross yield on asking price is 6% (shop pays outgoings) - you could say yield on house 4.4%, yield on shop 7%...

Hi All In WA if you use your house to run a business such as a b&B would that render you liable for Land TAx....ie would you lose the principle Residnce Exemption. Thanks Richard

Is anyone aware of a listed or non-listed trust you can invest in that in that invests only in Resedential? richard

I have recently experienced a 15% rise ($135 pw to $155 p/w) on two IP's in Perth... Anyone else experiencing similar rises in Perth? I would have thought that with the level of investment activity in WA there would be a surplus of rentals thereby holding rents down? Rich

Hi Gang I am about to purchase a property and have been told it used to be occupied by a petrol vendor and probably has fuel tanks buried undgerground. I have heard horror stories of cost of de-contamination of sites like this. Does anyone know how to go about this? Which gov dept...

I was always of the belief that losses in trusts were quarantined in the trust and accumulated until profits were made in that trust and then you could offset the accumulated losses and distribute the remaining profit to beneficiaries. Last night whilst reading the book "how to pay no tax...

Hi and happy new year. Can anyone refer me to a good buyers advocate for commercial property in WA? Rich

Hi All Anyone used DIY packs to create a will? I have realised my wife and I do not have wills. In laymans terms we have a reasonably complex structure of two family trusts owning assets other than PPOR and a SMSF. Are the online DIY wills OK? do they cover trusts etc? richard

HI all could anyone direct me towards info/books / etc on asset protection - or advise of very good advisor on this area in melbourne? thanks rich

has anyone been to this? is this good value worth doing? Rich

What is the best source of property stats. Where do people recommend you look for the most comprehensive coverage of real estate stats? Rich

Hello all as we know land tax esculates with a higher rate being applied to all properties owned by an entity as that entity accumulates more property. a friend suggested you could save on land tax by having an additional name on each title. eg the property is held as tenants in common by...

Peet & Co are about to develop Burns Beach Estate which is a coastal suburb near Joondalup - Perth - WA. They are asking $550,000 for an Ocean front block of about 600-700 sqm. Does anybody know the area well enough to understand if this represents good value? I have opportunity to buy...

Hi.. My sister in law is currently being offered $ for 2 1/2 acres of land as are her neighbours. The purchaser ia a developer who plans to do a subdivision into 500-1000 sqm blocks. In order to gauge what the developer may pay I am curious to know what margins they generally operate on...

Hi My sister in law lives in Caruarina and is looking to buy another property in the area as an IP. My advice was the area has had huge growth and is therefore not a good place to invest right now. Does anyone have any views on this? Thank you. Richard :) :)

Help I am looking to buy a property to live in but purchase in trust so when we move interstate we'll keep as IP. Doing the analysis in PIA software I used the follwoing assumptions - Purchase Price 950k - Rent 600pwk (3.28% seems right for property of this...

we have left our ppor and moved interstate (with our furniture) and are currently renting (shock horror). i am considering buying house we are renting in the name of our family trust as we already have ppor. question is can trust buy house fully furnished (ie buy furniture of me) and claim...

Due to being very time poor I am considering the use of a Buyers Agent....Non RE agent who will source property to set of criteria on a success fee basis. Does anyone have any experience with such a service that could shed light on the subject. Richard