I’ve been looking in Ballarat recently. It seems that Ballarat has also had a bit of a boom in the last few years. There are houses under 100k, but I didn’t feel that they’d be suitable for wrapping (1 or two bedroom). You’re generally looking at paying in excess of 150k for 3 or more bedrooms.

There’s also a lot of people doing renovations to…[Read more]

PIA written by Ian Somers is an excellent product and I have used it to perform an analysis of the properties I’ve purchased. The only two problems with it is:

1) It has a lot of variables, so you need to be careful of the numbers you enter. That said, properly used, it covers PI very thoughly.

2) It is primarily designed for the classic buy…[Read more]