Posted on: 16 Sep 2016

Frustrated in your hunt for your next property investment?

Australians have always had an affinity with property ownership and investment, and when you look at the statistics, it’s not hard to see why.

These statistics support the common marketing thread we see in the media around the positives of property investment. But as an existing property investor the real challenge lies in diversification.

Diversification in property has traditionally been quite challenging. This isn’t simply due to the outlay of capital needed per purchase, it takes time, the need for investigation, viewings, auctions and then post purchase, there’s the upkeep, maintenance and management of the asset to factor in.

Obviously you can avoid most of this with a REIT or other managed fund structure but with those options you tend to sacrifice transparency and control.

Suffice to say property investment can be frustrating to say the very least. How much easier would it be to have access to an online platform that listed a variety of properties, across different states that you could easily flick through and buy a share in when it suited you?

And it wouldn’t stop there, once purchased your shares would offer monthly returns from any net rental income and regular valuations that would allow you to monitor your capital returns performance.

Undoubtedly, access and transparency would make property investment diversification far easier for both sophisticated and first time investors.

Investors also have access to regular valuation updates and to each property’s historical and suburb data, and investment cases.