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Publié par | Tablo Pty Ltd |
Date de parution | 28 mars 2018 |
Nombre de lectures | 0 |
EAN13 | 9780648299530 |
Langue | English |
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Introduction
I’ve participated in over 500 client meetings and I can tell you not many people have a wealth plan towards home ownership (owning their home debt-free) and retirement.
This book is that plan. (At least from an illustrative perspective.)
It’s a roadmap I’ve developed to illustrate how someone can successfully progress through a long-term property journey, the end result being owning their home with no debt, and an investment portfolio generating $120,000 per annum (p.a.) passive income.
If you don’t think plans are important, imagine your doctor or pilot turning around and saying “screw the plan, I’m just going to wing it!”. You would be mortified.
“ True professionals never just wing it ” [1]. . . and I don’t think you should, either.
By way of background, I started my career in corporate finance at UBS Investment Bank in Sydney. From 2015-2018 I worked at one of Australia's leading mortgage broking firms [2], and then in June 2018 I established Long Property a boutique mortgage broking firm myself.
In 2018 I was recongnised by both Mortgage Professional Australia and also the Mortgage & Finance Association of Australia as being one of the top young professionals in the industry. (See Section i.i for further details.)
In my opinion there are two main reasons why so few Australians have proper wealth plans.
Firstly, at the time of writing, we’ve experienced over twenty-five years of uninterrupted growth in Australia, so a lot of people take a laissez-faire attitude towards their property purchases now. ‘I grew up in this area, my parents did very well . . . She’ll be right!’
Secondly, the property and finance industries in Australia are very transactional in nature, not strategic . What I mean by this is that most people simply go to a banker or broker to find out how much they can borrow, and how they can get the cheapest interest rate.
Very few bankers or brokers are modelling out cash flows for their clients and critical conversations around asset selection, ownership structures, debt strategies and risk mitigation are invariably missed.
So clearly there’s unmet demand for strategy, advice and education around creating wealth through property. . . Hence my motivation for writing this book.
My hope is for more people to set goals, like: ‘I want to own a $1.5 million home outright within ten years’; then ‘I want to have $120,000 p.a. passive income from my investment properties within twenty-five years’.
LONG PROPERTY outlines the six steps which characterise a successful long-term property plan. They are a guide for thinking two to three steps ahead, and for helping ambitious Australians achieve the above type of goals. Step 1 – The fundamentals of property investment, plus the mindset for investing. Step 2 – Entering the property market. Step 3 – Growing your asset base. Step 4 – Buying your home, then owning it outright. Step 5 – Transitioning to stronger cash flow. Step 6 – Retiring with sufficient passive income.
I refer to this plan as the LONG PROPERTY PLAN (LPP) . . . Original, I know!
The word ‘LONG though is significant in two ways: Property is most powerful as a long-term rather than a short-term investment; and In finance lingo, if you buy an asset with the expectation it will rise in value (clearly that’s what we’re aiming for here), then you’re said to have a long position in that asset.
Fortunately or unfortunately, depending on which way you look at it, none of the LPP is particularly innovative. It covers many of the same principles taught by our country’s top wealth strategists.
What’s unique here though is that rather than presenting standalone ideas and investment strategies, this is the first book I’m aware of which explains everything in the context of a strategic wealth plan . This is helpful as it gives readers an insight into the importance and longer-term consequences of the property and finance decisions they’re making today .
The LPP is not a wealth plan for individuals to follow mindlessly or blindly copy. Everyone’s requirements are obviously different, my intention is simply to map out a hypothetical journey to illustrate what’s possible.
To the extent readers find the general direction and end outcomes appealing, the LPP will hopefully encourage them to take a more strategic approach.
Where are you today, and where would you ideally like to be in five years, or ten years, or twenty years? The bigger the gap, the greater the importance of strategy and planning.
If you’re after a secret for buying seven properties in seven weeks, or anything ridiculous like that, this isn’t the book for you.
My strategies are get rich slow in nature, and generally speaking at least two property cycles (over twenty or more years) are required to achieve the stated objectives.
My primary example only involves buying two solid investment properties within the first ten years of the journey, then buying a home to live in (eventually your dream home to live in), then reducing debt. On face value this actually sounds quite boring, but don’t worry, it’s the results that count.
The combination of leverage, compounding growth and ‘time in the market’ is a tried and tested wealth formula that has broad acceptance and a proven track record of success. This is the essence of the LPP.
It’s worth noting upfront that at no point do I use more than 7% p.a. growth in any of my assumptions. Also anyone who has bought the types of properties I favour over the last twenty, thirty or forty years in Australia, and financed them correctly, has most likely been rewarded handsomely.
According to 2017 research from Performance Property Advisory 7% p.a. growth aligns with the long-term average growth rate for houses in each of Australia’s five major capital cities (see reference #5 for further details). It should be acceptable for illustrative purposes, particularly considering the LPP provides countless strategies for outperforming the averages. Note that capital growth is rarely linear though, there are usually better years and worse years. I also lower my growth rate assumption to 5% p.a. for the last ten years of the journey.
LONG PROPERTY is targeted towards anyone who wants to build wealth from property, not just get a cheap interest rate, and then buy something uninformed.
However it’s most relevant for young professionals, the wealth accumulators . For this audience, once goals have been established, decisions around what to buy, where to buy it, and how to finance it, become better informed. They then have the time on their side to reap the greatest potential rewards.
LONG PROPERTY will also have relevance for anyone who simply wants to ‘dip their toe’ into the property market, but in a sensible way. The LPP gives this reader a practical model for making educated and informed decisions. When spending upwards of half a million dollars . . . this alone is essential!
Before launching into the LPP itself, I also provide two chapters on why I believe residential property in Australia has a great long-term outlook (Section ii), and why residential real estate is a powerful vehicle for wealth creation (Section iii).
I’m very optimistic about the long-term prospects for Australian real estate, however it’s a cyclical asset and my personal view is that growth (as a whole) is likely to slow soon, particularly in markets that have either run too hard recently, or where there is now an oversupply of dwellings.
There are still great opportunities for savvy homebuyers and property investors, though. You just need to know the where, what and how . This is what the LPP will teach you.
Getting into the property market is not cheap; therefore, if prices move in the wrong direction, unsophisticated investors face the greatest risk. When markets turn it will be those who have bought inferior assets, at the wrong time, and financed them incorrectly, who will eventually be found out.
Having strategies, structure and direction is therefore becoming increasingly important. You need strategies for making money in average markets. You also need financial buffers in place, because being forced to liquidate investments early is the number-one way people lose money from property.
It’s near impossible to achieve anything significant in property without the likes of a specialist finance broker, buyers advocate, tax accountant and solicitor (at the very least). At the conclusion of LONG PROPERTY I explain where you can find these key advisers, to build your team.
As a disclaimer, this book is not tailored investment advice. It's really just a hypothetical representation of how property as an investment vehicle can be used for wealth creation.
The strategies obviously resonate with me personally, and my wife and I are well progressed in implementing them ourselves. However everyone’s circumstances are obviously different, so before going ahead with anything it is critical that you first consult with qualified professionals.
If LONG PROPERTY helps a few people have a better life, by making better decisions and enabling them to create wealth through their property activities, then that would be a very fulfilling outcome for me.
This book is designed to be interactive. Throughout the book I provide numerous links to the free resources section I have created on my website ( longproperty.com.au/book ). These links contain free templates as well as more detailed articles about the topics discussed.
I wanted to keep LONG PROPERTY short and easy to read, so these additional website resources are my opportunity to elaborate on topics in more depth (and in the context of current market conditions).
At the very least, I strongly encourage you to head over longproperty.com.au/book and download a free copy of your LPP template.
This is something I can help you complete – with your own milestones and objectives – and then check in with periodically, to maximise the likelihood of your success.
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