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Few positives to negative gearing for first-timers

  • 06/06/2022
  • Author Jimmy-T

For all the talk of housing affordability at the recent election there was one obvious subject that barely rated a mention. But now that the dust has settled on the…

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    Budget missed a trick with strata (as usual)

    • 12/10/2020
    • Author Jimmy-T

    Apartments weren’t so much an afterthought in the budget, as a hastily scribbled postscript. Sure there are additional incentives for first-time home buyers, and capital gains tax relief on granny…

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      Five classic errors of unit block newbies

      • 05/09/2017
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      New to apartments or teetering on the brink of buying your first unit? Trusting that someone somewhere will make the right decisions for everyone? If only.  You need to have…

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