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How Emotion Can Stuff up Property Investment Selection
The problem with the long-held property ownership dreams of many Aussies is emotion. We dream about becoming homeowners from such an early age, which means there are plenty of emotions attached to achieving our goal. When it comes to property investment,...
How Payday Loans Can Affect Your Car Loan Application
By Emma Cichero I 6 November 2020 I Finance A payday loan is cash fast to pay bills or make small purchases and are ultimately taken out as people are unable to fulfil current commitments using their regular income. When applying for a car loan, major lenders...
Four Ways to Refinance your Loan more Quickly
By Chris Pullen, Blue Wave Finance Strategies With interest rates as low as 1.98% on offer, many homeowners and investors are considering refinancing to score themselves a much better deal. In fact, the 2020 PIPA Annual Investor Sentiment Survey found about 36% of...
Vacant land demand soaring across the southeast
By Chris Pullen, Blue Wave Property Strategies You know what they say about land? They’re not building any more of it! And, there is currently less of it than there was six months ago across Southeast Queensland because buyer demand is so strong. A combination of...
How to Invest in Desirable Brisbane Suburbs – Without Selling a Kidney
By Chris Pullen, Blue Wave Property Strategies Did you know that in the financial year ending 2019, about 16,000 people shifted to Brisbane from other parts of Australia? Some of the new residents came from within the Sunshine State, but plenty came from Sydney...
QUEENSLAND FIRST HOME BUYERS HIGHEST IN A DECADE
By Chris Pullen, Blue Wave Property Strategies Did you know the last time there were so many Queensland first home buyers active in the market Kevin Rudd was the Prime Minister? It was way back in October 2009, which also was in the middle of another global economic...
Investors keen to buy, and live, on the coast
By Chris Pullen, Blue Wave Property Strategies Over the past few months, there have been more and more signs that the Sunshine Coast property market has been experiencing different conditions to many other locations – and not just in Queensland but also around the...
New Coast City Centre Perfect for Post-Pandemic Future
By Chris Pullen, Blue Wave Property Strategies There are certain things that happen that in hindsight seem perfectly timed for a future event that you could never have predicted. What I’m talking about is the impacts of the pandemic on the way that many of us will...
Why Sunshine Coast Property Prices are Set to Soar – Even in a Recession
By Chris Pullen, Blue Wave Property Strategies It’s been official for a while that our national economy is in recession. The last time we were in a technical recession was a few decades ago because the GFC, at least in Australia, is classed as an economic downturn....
Buy Now or Forever Wish You Had
By Chris Pullen, Blue Wave Property Strategies Unfortunately, it’s a truth universally acknowledged that most people don’t decide to invest in property until everyone else is doing the same thing. It’s the herd mentality or an ill-conceived “safety in numbers”...
Property Price “Cliff” that Doesn’t Exist
By Chris Pullen, Blue Wave Property Strategies Do you remember a few months ago, or even a few days ago, when lots of property watchers were predicting price falls from October? Seemingly, the end of the JobKeeper wage subsidy was going to be the beginning of a market...
The Rise of Ethical Property Investors
By Chris Pullen, Blue Wave Property Strategies Property investment has evolved over the years as the sector has matured and more people took charge of their financial futures. Long gone are the days when (most) people thought they could just buy any old property,...