… for Your Investment Future

The purpose of this website is to give you the confidence of understanding how investing in Commercial property really works. Plus, to show you how to actually ‘steal a march’ on other property investors.

Your next step is to distil that confidence down into a highly-focussed Investment Strategy. That way, you’ll be sure to acquire the right properties.

However, if you’re like many property investors, you could well be wondering: “Where do I start?” and “How do I decide what’s right for me?” — given the array of opportunities you have available.

Both of these are good questions. And a number of our clients seem to wrestle with them as well. So, let’s take you through the process, and help you to decide upon …

Your Core Area of Focus!

Over the past few years, this website has identified a number of emerging trends — to give you some insight into just what options you do have available. And with those insights, you’ve probably already hit upon several more property investment opportunities yourself.

You First Need to Consider What’s Possible

Right now, you may have a whole range of potential Options there in front of you. And maybe the best way to depict them is by using a simple diagram — where the circle below contains all your Options, as to what’s actually possible for you.

However, because of the wide choice, creating your personal Investment Strategy may seem like a somewhat daunting task — only because, your selection is just too large.

Let’s Now Take a Look at What is Appropriate

You know what is Possible, and you need to somehow trim your choices a little. And you can do this by asking yourself: “Which of these available Options would best fit my temperament?”

Just because an investment option may look appealing … that (by itself) is not necessarily a sound basis for you to pursue it.

For example: In the 1970s and 1980s, negative gearing was being heavily promoted as providing excellent tax benefits. And people would ask at my workshops and seminars: “How much should I borrow?”

But there’s really no right answer to that question — it’s simply what is right for you. For some people, to borrow 90% is fine. But for others, anything over 50% borrowing would cause them considerable distress.

Therefore, you needed to discover what we call … your ‘Threshold of Insomnia’. And in doing so, you then start to form a clearer view of the type of investments you ought be including within your portfolio.

That doesn’t mean you cling blindly to past choices, where you may intuitively feel most comfortable — especially now you’ve become aware of what will happen with Commercial property, over the next couple of years.

So, by introducing the concept of what’s Appropriate — you’re able to start narrowing down your Options.

When you start to compare what you consider to be the Appropriate investments … against all your Possible property investment opportunities, you’re then able to trim your choices down to something a lot more manageable.

But What are you Capable of Buying?

You now need to have a look at exactly what resources you have available — both time-wise and financially. And that doesn’t mean you’re confined to looking at just what you can handle by yourself.

You may like to think about joining with other like-minded investors in a syndicate — to leverage your capital, and spread your risk. And if you would like to explore this further, I can certainly help you do that.

But as your portfolio grows … like most serious investors, you’ll need to engage a property manager — so as not to spread yourself too thin, and then run yourself ragged.

Assuming you choose to invest on your own, you then need to properly assess your available capital — which will be a combination of your present cash, plus any additional equity you may have in other properties.

And, so your diagram now looks something like this:

You Need to Establish Your Core Area of Focus

As you can see, after applying these three “filters”, you’re left (at the centre of these overlapping circles) with … what’s Possible and what’s Appropriate, plus what it is you’re actually Capable of investing in. Only then are you ready to start building your property wealth.

Contrary to popular opinion: The smaller your list of potential opportunities, the clearer and more successful your Investment Strategy is likely to be.

It’s really quite a simple process; but one intended to help you carefully establish your Core Area of Focus! And it’s the process even seasoned investors revert to — just to ensure they keep themselves on track.

From here you might look to understand the 20 components for successful property investment. You will quickly discover that these include your 8 Investment Objectives, along with your 12 Buying Criteria — and why they’re important to your success.

From there, it is now possible for you to combine all these Investment components into a simple (but extremely powerful) high-speed Filter.

And with this Tool alone, you’ll be in a position to trim a selection of (say) 15 potential properties down to a more manageable list of 2 or 3 worthwhile opportunities — in about 10 minutes.

Then you’re ready to move on to a detailed after-tax analysis for your short-list of preferred properties.