Category: Featured

Increasing a Property’s Perceived Value

  Everyone loves a good deal in real estate. We all like to think we are getting maximum “bang for our buck” and a positive return on our investment. Potential buyers of your home will definitely be looking for that value. By enhancing the property’s perceived worth you will attract

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Austral joins GAPDL

Austral Lending is proud to have recently been admitted as a member of Gladstone Area Promotion and Development Limited GAPDL.              Gladstone is lucky to have such a enthusiastic community minded organistation such as this, which is staffed by people who are happy and ready

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Prepayments on Equipment Finance

The following is the 3rd article on Equipment Finance in our weekly series Prepayments Continuing from last week’s look at finance structuring is the subject of prepayment of leases or other finance contracts. I’m often asked by clients if they can prepay a finance contract they have, especially when June

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Never too young to buy property

It’s a case of walking before they can even crawl for some very young property owners, with parents setting up their children for property ownership almost from the day they are born. The far-sighted plan is more common in Europe than Australia but the same benefits apply. As Australian prices

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Smart ways to Recycle e-waste

Recycling your old electronics can be daunting and people often come up with convenient excuses to just throw out old equipment or leave them lying on the side of the road without any regard to the environmental impact and the impact on carbon emissions. Firstly, you can simply recycle your

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There is still profit in property

There’s still money to be made out of property if you are careful and hard-headed. It has been the wealth strategy of a generation. Buy a home. Look after it, improve it, upgrade it. And if cash flow allows, gear up to your eyeballs to buy more property for other

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Equipment and asset finance series

        It is our plan to provide a free series about equipment finance. Over the coming months we will provide 1 topic per week. Part 1 – Preapproved lending limits  Jason Smyth is the Managing partner in Rockhampton who 15 years experience in equipment or asset finance in Central Queensland.

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