How to Stop Losing Money You Didn’t Know You Had
There is a deafening silence that falls over a room when people realise they’ve tossed thousands of dollars down the drain, without ever knowing it was theirs to keep in the first place. It happened about eleven minutes into our Lunch & Learn with Rachel Marston, Director at Ascot Accounting. She was explaining that
‘Mum-and-dad’ investors say tax overhaul derails plans for children’s futures
A Burpengary family of eight built a five year plan to buy an established investment property, grow the equity, and use it to house their adult children. The federal tax overhaul and tighter lending ended that plan before it started. They are now weighing whether to fund the build themselves and wear the cost, or
Tax overhaul sparks fierce clash between investors and first-home buyers
Queensland investors took out a record 1,877 loans for new dwelling construction in the June quarter, while overall investor applications fell by almost a third. With negative gearing and capital gains tax concessions now reserved for new builds, Queensland investors are chasing the same off the plan townhouses, units and house and land packages as
Dual Key vs Dual Occupancy vs Duplex: Duel of the Duals
With Brisbane’s rental vacancy rate down to just 0.9% (3,065 vacancies) as of July 2026, more investors than ever are looking at dual income property structures to squeeze more rental yield out of a single block. But far too often, these three terms get thrown around interchangeably, despite being vastly different asset types with
How Brisbane Buyers Can Win in A Shifting Market
Lo and behold, post-budget night, Brisbane property talk has changed tone, to one that’s finally a few shades lighter! Between thick, red budget headlines, easing buyer competition and a general sense that the tooth and nail market frenzy has cooled off, buyers are now asking themselves, do I even need a buyer’s agent anymore?
What a Brisbane Building Inspector Wishes Every Buyer Knew… Before It Costs Them $40,000
Every buyer’s agent has a story about the house that almost got away with it. The one that photographed beautifully, with ‘just cosmetic’ cracks. The one where the seller’s agent swore, hand on heart, that the bathroom leak was ‘an old issue’, already fixed. It’s times like this, when Brisbane buyer’s agent Lauren Jones detects
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