Property investors have been reminded not to be complacent when it comes to protecting their income. Terry Scheer Insurance executive general manager Carolyn Parrella said a tenant who falls behind in their rent can put landlords under significant financial stress. “Arrears can be a very long and costly process to resolve and may leave landlords.

The RP Data Research Team have released its latest housing market report for the Gold Coast region. The report provides an in depth look at the current conditions across the Gold Coast housing market and offers key trends, metrics and suburb statistical data. Some of the key trends mentioned: 3.8% increase in dwelling values over.

Australians earned more than $33.5 billion in rental income on investment properties and claimed more than $41.5 billion in tax deductions against those properties in the 2011-12 tax year, according to the latest Australian Taxation Office figures. The total of $8 billion in net losses claimed in the 2011-12 financial year was a slight increase.

A leading figure in the real estate industry has been able to answer the age-old question of which structure works best for a property management department. Over several years, Chris Rolls from Rental Express – one of the country’s largest rental businesses – experimented with portfolio-based, task-based and a hybrid ‘pod’ team structure. “We’ve tried.

Having worked in both large offices and smaller boutique ones for over 20 years, in my opinion, it’s the smaller offices that offer a better level of service and more personal care to their landlords. There’s usually between one and three people handling the day-to-day running of property management and they tend to be across.

By Jonathan Chancellor Wednesday, 15 January 2014 BIS Shrapnel’s Angie Zigomanis recently put the current absence of first home buyers in capital city property markets squarely at the feet of state governments. But he could have also pointed the finger at the Federal Government, past and present. The BIS Shrapnel economist noted the first home.