PropertyInvesting.com | Jalugera | Activity https://www.propertyinvesting.com/members/jalugera/activity/ Activity feed for Jalugera. Tue, 14 Apr 2026 23:20:55 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v=2.8.1 en-US 30 hourly 2 e8636a68dcd289408f4ec13ac0be9bf0 Jalugera replied to the topic Renovation profit margin in the forum Value Adding https://www.propertyinvesting.com/topic/5028137-renovation-profit-margin/page/2/#post-5028886 Tue, 16 Aug 2016 10:38:55 +0000 I live in Melbourne but have bought, renovated and sold property in the affordable North Geelong area (postcode 3214).

These posts seem to ignore the signifcant on-costs: transfer (stamp) duty, registration, legal, insurance, holding costs, etc.
These on-costs preoccupy me as they are significant and add no value.

For example, in Victoria, on…[Read more]

]]> 589fdf0e0d91c7ae4facd93c8d4a1922 Jalugera replied to the topic Quick, cost effective Reno to manufacture equity in the forum Value Adding https://www.propertyinvesting.com/topic/4408654-quick-cost-effective-reno-to-manufacture-equity/#post-4685922 Fri, 22 Mar 2013 14:10:46 +0000 I began looking in Norlane around 2000 and decided an unrenovated 2 bedder on 600 sqM land (ie the lower quartile) at $60k was too expensive.

I revisited in 2007 and prices were then around $115k and bought a few, renovated around $10k and rented $120 pw.  I should have bought in 2000!

I have since bought a few more and sold some in Norlane.…[Read more]

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