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Beating the Rate Race: Investors with Granny Flats Have Better Return
Discover the emerging trend of homeowners utilising granny flats for rental income in Australia’s competitive real estate market. Learn how this strategy can help cover mortgage costs while addressing housing challenges.
What ROI will a Granny Flat deliver in 2023?
Discover the untapped potential of Granny Flats as a smart investment avenue in NSW and ACT. While initial returns might seem modest, these secondary dwellings hold the promise of impressive long-term financial gains, offering a compelling proposition for those seeking to build wealth strategically. We explore real scenarios, and expert insights, illustrating how Granny Flats can be a game-changer in your investment portfolio.
Granny Flat Finance – Now Inhouse with Cubitt’s
Getting your Granny Flat finance is made easy with Cubitt’s Granny Flats and Mortgage Choice. Our trusted partnership offers personalised solutions tailored to your needs. George Lemone, your dedicated broker, brings extensive knowledge and experience to navigate the lending landscape. With his guidance, achieving your dream Granny Flat becomes a seamless and rewarding experience.
Types of Loans to Finance a Granny Flat
With interest rates soaring, investing in Granny Flats has become increasingly popular. Explore the tax deductible advantages, including depreciation deductions, that make them an attractive option for savvy investors looking to maximise returns in the current real estate market.
Guide to Making Your Granny Flat Tax Deductible
With interest rates soaring, investing in Granny Flats has become increasingly popular. Explore the tax deductible advantages, including depreciation deductions, that make them an attractive option for savvy investors looking to maximise returns in the current real estate market.
Building a Granny Flat means to insulate against rate rise
An article published in the Australian Financial Review (AFR) on Sunday 5 March identified a number of ways Australian households are softening the impact of more expensive rates, including building a Granny Flat.
How much could you save moving back in with Mum and Dad?
Families looking at the possibility of interest rates remaining higher longer term, are examining their resources to ensure they can maintain their standard of living.
Ninth consecutive interest rate rise driving creative property solutions
The impact of an interest rate rise can be different for individuals, businesses and the overall economy, with some potentially benefiting while others may be negatively affected. No matter the situation, with rates continuing to rise – and more expected, individuals and families are considering their options.
Ten Home Goals for 2023
There’s nothing more important than family. Our foundation of emotional support, security, belonging, identity and values. At Cubitt’s, we know your home is what is supporting, surrounding and nurturing your family – in so many different ways, and we’re here to support you finding the best way to family for you.
How Much Does a Home Extension Cost in 2023? Here are 7 Important Factors
As your family grows, you may find yourself requiring more usable space. Planning to renovate the home you love is one of the most exciting and most personal projects a person can undertake.
How much do Granny Flats increase the value of a home?
The benefits of constructing a Granny Flat are many, ranging from the creation of a quiet space for work or study, a comfortable place for visitors to stay, or a more affordable option to a care facility. With all this utility, it makes sense that adding a Granny Flat would raise the value of the entire property.
How to Finance a Granny Flat
Granny Flats will offer a return investment – and can do so reasonably quickly due to their short time to build, and their popularity as a housing option. In this article we look at the ways that clients are financing their Granny Flats
Complete Guide to Granny Flats as Airbnb’s for NSW and ACT
A Granny Flat is the perfect investment tool to use to start hosting on Airbnb. Here’s a few reasons why:
– You don’t have to buy a new property; you can build on your existing one
– If you live on the main property in NSW, you fall under the ‘hosted’ STRA rules
– It’s a self-contained space with own private access
– Granny Flats have myriad other uses if you decide Airbnb is not for you
– Granny Flats increase the value of your property, Airbnb or not
Granny Flat Investment: Student Renters as an Additional Source of Income
As the focus on further education for young people grows, combined with the inability to have an overseas gap year, there are more and more Australians enrolling in University courses. In fact, a University of Sydney spokeswoman recently described demand for places from local students has been “higher than ever”.
How to Build Your Property Empire with Granny Flats
Building a property empire is within easy reach of anyone ready to buy their first investment property, or who already has one. In NSW and ACT, state government planning legislation is extremely friendly towards the construction of secondary dwellings – or Granny Flats – which help increase housing stock and provide much needed private rentals across the state. So lets look at how you can build a property empire with Granny Flats.
With Interest Rates Going Up – Is a Granny Flat Your Best Option?
A Granny Flat could help you insulate your lifestyle against cost of living and interest rate rises. Building a Granny Flat on an existing property allows you to make the most of every square foot of your home, you’d be surprised how spacious they can be!
4 reasons why a renovation project is your best option in Sydney
Feel like a change of scenery? If you’ve been living in the same Sydney location for a while and find yourself less and less enamoured with your existing home design, you might be thinking about moving to a new suburb or location.
How to Financially Gain with a Granny Flat at Any Stage of Your Life
It’s true – Granny Flats are not just for Granny’s. More and more savvy home owners and renters alike are looking for this perfect sized parcel of home – at every stage of life. We take a look at the reasons people are building and moving into Granny Flats all over Australia, from their 20s – to their 70s.
How to Beat the Ticking Property Time Bomb
Have you been thinking about buying a bigger property to finally get that forever home you’ve always been dreaming about? Or perhaps you love your home but feel like your family has outgrown it and you need more space? We get it.
The Australian Property Market in Financial Year 2022: 4 Trend Predictions
There is no doubt the Australian property market has been a hot topic, with properties in every state rising to record-breaking prices. Where to from here? Will house prices drop due to lack of housing affordability? Will historically low-interest rates keep prices rising even further?