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What you CAN (and CAN’T) do to improve your SMSF investment property

Posted on October 13, 2024 by 60+Club
What you CAN (and CAN’T) do to improve your SMSF investment property 🏠✔️❌ If you own an investment property through your self-managed super fund (SMSF), you might be wondering: “Can I make improvements to increase its value?” While it’s tempting to roll up your sleeves and use your skills to boost the property’s worth, the
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Posted in Money & Financials, Property, Super/SMSF

Comparing Land Lease Communities and Retirement Villages

Posted on June 13, 2024 by 60+Club
Understanding the differences between a Land Lease Community and a Retirement Village 🏠📝 Downsizing can be exciting, but it’s essential to do your research and calculate costs. This article compares retirement villages and land lease communities, two main options with distinct financial arrangements. A land lease community or over-50s lifestyle resort may look like a
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Posted in Lifestyle, Property
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Five property rifts between families and how best to prevent them

Posted on December 19, 2023 by 60+Club
Five common property conflicts that cause family rifts and proactive strategies to prevent legal battles 🏠⚖️ In recent times, disputes over the “Bank of Mum and Dad” loans, complexities within blended families, impatience over children’s inheritances, and concerns about adult children living at home have become increasingly common legal battles. Apart from tearing families apart,
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Posted in Money & Financials, Property
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Navigating the Downsizer Super Scheme • Pitfalls to steer clear of when selling your family home

Posted on November 18, 2023 by 60+Club
Navigating the Downsizer Super Scheme • Pitfalls to steer clear of when selling your family home 🏠💰 The trend of downsizing from larger family homes to smaller, more cost-effective properties has gained significant traction, driven in part by a beneficial superannuation exemption supported by successive governments. This trend is particularly popular among older Australians who
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Posted in Money & Financials, Property, Super/SMSF
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Feng Shui tips for a happy home

Posted on August 15, 2023 by 60+Club
Feng Shui tips for a happy home ☯🥰 Feng Shui is an ancient Eastern art form concerned with understanding and improving the feeling of a room or space. Feng Shui is based on the idea that our environment carries and stores energy. According to the principles of Feng Shui, making some small changes around your
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Posted in Happiness, Lifestyle, Property

When downsizer contribution should be delayed

Posted on June 18, 2023 by 60+Club
When downsizer contribution should be delayed 🏠🏦 Just because you can do this from 55 doesn’t mean you should. The benefits of downsizer contributions can be substantial but be careful about your timing. If you sell your home and are 55 or older, you can make a downsizer contribution to super provided you meet the
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Posted in Lifestyle, Property

Australia’s top performing suburbs across each capital city for 2022

Posted on January 22, 2023 by 60+Club
Australia’s top performing suburbs for 2022 for house & units So, where were Australia’s top performers in residential real estate over 2022? CoreLogic’s annual Best of the Best 2022 report is the most comprehensive overview of top performing residential markets and provides suburb-level insights across a variety of measures to reveal Australia’s strongest performers over
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Downsizer scheme widens as the eligibility age decreases

Posted on June 3, 2022 by 60+Club
Downsizer scheme widens with the eligibility age decreases 🏠💸 Regardless of who was to win the federal election, people aged 60 years and over were going to be among the winners, as a Coalition promise to widen the “downsizer” scheme was matched by Labor. As an extension to the existing downsizer contribution rules, the eligibility
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Posted in Property, Super/SMSF

‘Bank of mum and dad’ risks of being guarantor in a frothy housing market

Posted on January 19, 2022 by 60+Club
‘Bank of mum and dad’ boom – and the risks of being guarantor if house prices fall 🏘️💸 As house prices rose over 20% in 2021, the fastest lift in more than 30 years, a growing cohort or people aged in their 20s to 40s who make up today’s generation of aspiring property buyers feel
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Posted in Money & Financials, Property

Australia’s top performing suburbs across each capital city for 2021

Posted on December 21, 2021 by 60+Club
Australia’s top performing suburbs for 2021 for house & units So, where were Australia’s top performers in residential real estate over 2021? CoreLogic’s annual Best of the Best 2021 report is the most comprehensive overview of top performing residential markets and provides suburb-level insights across a variety of measures to reveal Australia’s strongest performers over
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Posted in News, Property

Increase your retirement financial security using your home

Posted on November 4, 2021 by 60+Club
Increase your retirement financial security using your home The government has improved its home equity release scheme to attract more retirees needing extra funds. It is no coincidence that the government is increasing the attractiveness of its Pension Loans Scheme at the same time as increasing the number of home care packages. At some point,
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Posted in Money & Financials, Property

Australia’s biggest age pension postcodes revealed

Posted on June 27, 2021 by 60+Club
Australia’s biggest age pension postcodes revealed Queensland strengthens its position as Australia’s retirement hot spot The last five years has seen age pensioner numbers shrink in Victoria and New South Wales, as seniors head north and west to enjoy richer retirements. Particularly to Queensland, which now contains four of Australia’s top five age pension postcodes
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Posted in News, Property

Funding your lifestyle after retirement

Posted on March 8, 2021 by 60+Club
Funding your lifestyle after retirement For those of us that are approaching retirement, the number of decisions that need to be considered can be a little overwhelming. While some of us have well laid plains, for the majority we need to consider what life looks like when we retire and no longer have an active
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Posted in Lifestyle, Money & Financials, Property

Australia’s top performing suburbs across each capital city for 2020

Posted on December 31, 2020 by 60+Club
Australia’s top performing suburbs for 2020 for house & units In a year that no one could have predicted, from a deadly global pandemic to our largest economic downturn since the 1930’s, CoreLogic’s Best of the Best 2020 Report released today reveals Australia’s $7.2 trillion residential real estate market proved remarkably resilient. While the initial
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Posted in News, Property

Pensions Loan Scheme for older Australians who are asset-rich but income-poor

Posted on January 26, 2020 by 60+Club
Pensions Loan Scheme for older Australians who are asset-rich but income-poor The Pensions Loan Scheme (PLS) is broadly available to retirees of Age Pension age who own Australian property and meet pension eligibility requirements. The PLS is a scheme that lets older Australians get a voluntary non-taxable fortnightly loan from the Australian Government, which can
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Posted in Money & Financials, Property

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