Remember the news we shared late last year about our very own Kaz and her team in Property Zest being nominated for the 2019 REIQ Awards of Excellence? Well, we’re happy to share that Kaz’s team has snatched the coveted Buyer’s Agency Award! The announcement was made during the Gala Night held last March […]
API Magazine’s List of Blue-chip Cheap Suburbs
Two reasons why you should grab the latest issue of Australian Property Investor (API) Magazine this month: first, the cover story reveals 60 of the nation’s most promising suburbs – undervalued yet with blue-chip quality and potential! Second reason: EPI’s, Kaz Young, was among the experts who chipped in their knowledge of these high-growth suburbs ripe […]
The 2015 Telstra Business Women’s Awards—We’re A Finalist!
It’s been a little quiet around here lately and we apologise for the unannounced hiatus of the EPI podcast. We’ve been quite busy of late being on the ground doing what we love doing, what else—buying property! But we’d like to break the silence by sharing a fantastic news, host of EPI, Kaz Young, […]
EPI 103 | How to make more money when you sell
What’s news Buying Property in Melbourne – Lisa Parker – Parker Investment Properties Buying property in Brisbane – Karen Young – Property Zest Feature – Making More Money When You Sell Selling Advocates Innovative Property Advocates Quick tip and action Look at your properties for add value opportunities, whether or not you are selling or for revaluation
2015 REIQ Awards Buyer’s Agent of the Year
We’re thrilled, happy, eager, elated, giddy (please take this thesaurus away from us!) to share with you that Karen Young of Property Zest (aka Kaz to Everyday Property Investing community) has been awarded the 2015 Buyer’s Agent of the Year by the Real Estate Institute of Queensland (REIQ). The announcement came during the glitzy awards gala night […]
Suburb Review: Zillmere, Qld (and case studies)
(This is a shorter version of the suburb review we wrote for the June-July 2014 issue of Property Wise magazine.) For many investors proximity to the CBD is a big factor in selecting an investment property. The issue that we face when trying to secure a property that is close to the CBD is […]
Brisbane Case Study Part 4: Why Some Contracts Fail (aka The Building and Pest Inspections)
So your offer on a property has been accepted. You’re full of excitement, you’re giddy, and felt relieved now that the crucial part is over. You’re about to celebrate—but you realised there’s still some more work to be done. There’s the building and pest inspection. And this phase of property purchase is just as […]
Brisbane Case Study Part 3 — Finding THE Property
We’re back with the next instalment in our latest Brisbane purchase case study. As a review, below are the links to the first and second parts of this series: Brisbane Case Study Part 1: Meeting Peta Brisbane Case Study Part 2— Suburbs Analysis Now to recall Peta’s buying criteria, we were looking for a […]
Brisbane Case Study Part 2— Suburbs Analysis
We are now on the second part of our Brisbane purchase case study featuring Peta. If you missed our initial post, head on to the link below to get an idea of Peta’s background and a glimpse of her buying criteria: Brisbane Case Study Part 1: Meeting Peta We’ve mentioned in the first part […]
Brisbane Purchase Case Study Part 7 — Last Stretch Before Settlement
We’ve reached the culmination of our Brisbane Purchase Case Study for one of Property Zest’s clients, Luke. Before Luke became the owner of another property, there were several tasks to be done and in this part 7 of our series, we tackle the things that needed to be accomplished between signing the contract and […]
Brisbane Purchase Case Study Part 6— Going for the ‘Best and Final’ Offer
We’re back to continue our series on our Brisbane case study purchase for one of our clients, Luke. We’ve reached the exciting part of the process as we discuss in this part 6 the details of the deal and making an offer. Time to catch up if you haven’t on the previous posts leading […]
Brisbane Purchase Case Study Part 5—Zeroing in
Our Brisbane purchase case study becomes even more interesting as we get closer to finding the property that meets Luke’s buying criteria ($350,000 budget; properties within or around 5 years old and cashflow neutral to positive at 70% LVR —he was buying in his self managed Superannuation fund) But before we walk you through […]