Revealed: Property investor tells how she amassed a $1.5 MILLION portfolio by age 32 – and how …

A Melbourne property investor has shared her secrets to striking it big in real estate. Emilia Rossi, 34, owns four properties with a portfolio valued at close to $1.5million. The first property was purchased by Ms Rossi when she was just 25 years old. She had no financial support from her family when she
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LONDON (Alliance News) – RM Secured Direct Lending PLC said on Monday it will hold a general meeting on March 28 to propose the granting of authority to the company to issue new shares in the company without offering them to shareholders first. This is in line with the debt-focused investment
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Last Thursday, seemingly out of the blue, President Trump announced that the U.S. would impose a 25% tariff on imported steel and a 10% tariff on imported aluminum, adding that these new taxes may be applied as early as this week. The U.S. President has a surprising amount of latitude on trade
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My guess is, if you've been in real estate any length of time, you're probably decent at building rapport. But it wouldn't hurt to be better at it, right? I've worked in sales essentially my entire life (I won't share how many years that is, but trust me, you can measure it in decades), and this is what I've found to
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The First National Bank of Amazon? Is there any part of the business world that Jeff Bezos doesn't want to control? Amazon is said to be in talks with JPMorgan Chase, Capital One and other banks and financial services firms about setting up an Amazon-branded checking account for its customers,
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The spike in 30-year fixed interest rates, at a time of continuously rising home prices, has pushed home affordability to its lowest level since 2009, and cut potential refinance loan candidates by 40%, according to Black Knight's Mortgage Monitor report. In just the first six weeks of the year, about 1.4
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Boosted by Italy's fastest growth in seven years and expectations of a tighter monetary policy, Italy's banking index hit a near two-year high in February after state rescues last year removed the threat of a systemic crisis. The outgoing center-left government also passed measures to help lenders shed
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Disruptions to the level of market access in financial services as a result of Brexit will leave “no 'winners'”, according to a report from professional services firm PwC. PwC's report, which focuses on the impact of the loss of mutual market access in financial services across the EU27 and the UK, projected
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Isolating income, race, loan size and other data from its analysis of over 31 million conventional home loans reported through the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA), Reveal learned that African-American and Latinx borrowers are more likely to be denied a conventional home loan in 61 American
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Berkshire's HomeServices of America, the second-largest U.S. residential real estate brokerage, is the majority owner of Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices. Rubina, led by co-founder Carstein Heinrich, will change its name in April to Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Rubina Real Estate. It will join
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Banks continued to eat up market share in the fourth quarter, growing their portion of the broker pie by 5.4 percentage points vs. Q4 2016. For the full year, banks seized a whopping 750 basis points of share, mainly from mortgage finance companies. Virtually no broker in Canada will be surprised by that
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The U.S. Senate is expected to approve a sweeping revamp of financial rules this week. Of all the surprises that entails — about a dozen Democrats signing on, Republicans leaving a lot of the much-maligned Dodd-Frank legislation intact — the biggest is the lack of goodies for Wall Street. Some big
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WASHINGTON — Thirteen midsize banks sent a letter to the Senate Banking Committee on Monday supporting a regulatory relief bill that is likely to be voted on later this week. “This bipartisan legislation is a common-sense approach that maintains regulatory authority but makes reasonable changes
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The AIM-traded firm said demand for funding had led to an increase in its lending over the equivalent half year in the 2017 financial year. … “As a result of this increase in lending, interest income is expected to be higher than in the six months to 31 January 2017,” Orchard's board said in its statement.
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President Donald Trump's threat to tax vehicles imported from Europe has the American International Automobile Dealers Association sounding the alarm. “More tariffs won't help American businesses or families,” said Cody Lusk, AIADA's chief executive officer. “The resulting trade war will undoubtedly
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While Vladimir Putin boasted that his latest “invincible” nuclear weapons prove the U.S. and its allies have failed to contain Russia, the display of bravado risks a new arms race that his country is ill-equipped to win. Putin earned a rare rebuke on Monday from U.S. President Donald Trump, who called
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On a recent night in San Francisco, the woman representing the Google engineer famously fired for arguing women aren't genetically suited to work in tech doesn't have it in her to attend a dinner of her peers. Those peers—other San Francisco judges and attorneys—run the spectrum, in her view, from
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As Congress pivots from the GOP's tax measure that overwhelming benefits wealthy shareholders over workers, the Senate is expected to vote on an under-the-radar rewrite of banking rules that prioritizes the deregulatory wishlist of banks ahead of consumers and the health of our banking system.
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In 2008, I took out a tracker mortgage for a self-build. I subsequently needed more money to complete the build and, in 2009, requested a top-up on the original mortgage. I was made to take out a second mortgage for the smaller sum and denied the tracker rate that I had (and still have) for the first
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MUMBAI, March 5 (Reuters) – Indian mortgage lender Housing Development Finance Corp Ltd (HDFC) said it raised 18.96 billion rupees ($291 million) in a share sale to institutional investors. HDFC sold shares at 1,825 rupees apiece, it said in a regulatory filing on Monday. Its shares closed on Monday
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