by Nick Rainsford | 27 Jun 2016 | Business, General, Investments, SMSF, Uncategorized
If you’ve been reading the headlines recently you may have stumbled upon predictions of doomsdays ahead for the property market should one party or the other win and succeed in introducing their policies. Here’s the thing…don’t believe a word of it. Since the mid...
by Nick Rainsford | 22 May 2016 | Business, General, Home loans, Investments, SMSF
Step right up. Around and around it goes where it stops nobody knows.Step right up. Around and around it goes where it stops nobody knows. No more bets. This housing cycle is almost complete – although last week’s auction clearance rates would argue strongly against...
by Nick Rainsford | 1 Feb 2016 | Business, General, Home loans, Investments, SMSF
In the main, financial markets have – over time – developed pricing mechanisms to cater for risk and service. Price is used in banking as a risk differentiator. As we saw in the recent movie “The Big Short” not all of it works well but if you compare it to other...
by Nick Rainsford | 18 Jan 2016 | Business, General, Home loans, Investments, Leasing, SMSF
In past articles I have written about how banks have been forced to become more conservative in their residential property lending. They have generally done this by reducing LVR’s tightening servicing requirements, increasing living expenses and using price as a way...
by Nick Rainsford | 11 Jan 2016 | Business, General, Home loans, Investments, SMSF, Uncategorized
To quote Polonius more completely than the title suggests: Neither a borrower nor a lender be For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. William Shakespeare, ca. 1598, Hamlet Act 1, Scene 3 When Hamlet was first performed in...
