Investing Your Money.

When financial uncertainty increases, it’s natural to seek out a safe and long term means of investing your money to provide you with fairly consistent and decent returns. Despite the many changes in the Australian market, investing in property remains a great way to do just that – and things will be no different for Australians and foreign investors in 2017. In fact, Smart Property Investment Australia has dubbed 2017 “the year of the property investor”.

Research by JLL for the Australian shows that foreign investment in the local commercial property market hit a record $10 billion in 2016, with most investors coming from Singapore as traditionally popular areas like the UK fall out of favour due to political instability.

It’s not just international investors who are profiting. Many Australians are enjoying an income from local rental investments, which are less risky and easier to manage while offering a passive, predictable income source unaffected by the exchange rate. Add to this low-interest rates and strong demand for quality new home construction, and it’s easy to see why current properties are providing a solid rental income and an increase in real estate value.

Experts say there’s never been a better time to get a foot in the property investment market provided you are willing to look beyond metropolitan Sydney (which is reaching affordability constraints) to up and coming areas in other parts of Australia.

Another important factor in initiating a local property investment for the very first time will be understood that the approach you take needs to be quite different to the one adopted when buying a home of one’s own – and it is a decidedly less emotional one. Unless you are a seasoned property investor, it can be challenging to adopt the necessary perspective needed to critically analyse whether or not a certain property would make a good investment.

Making this investment also requires professional assistance, someone who will be able to advise you on evaluating the area in terms of its current and future property value as well as transport, infrastructure and more.

So if you’ve decided that 2017 is going to be the year that you call yourself a property investor, don’t be afraid to ask for help from someone with experience.