Andrea Williams
Leading WA Inspector Goes All-In with ...

Leading WA Inspector Goes All-In with Inspection Express

Asset Reports, one of Western Australia’s most trusted property inspection providers, has officially gone all-in with Inspection Express to deliver the next generation of inspection reporting.

For almost 20 years, Asset Reports has built a reputation for providing property managers and landlords with detailed, professional, and reliable reports across WA. Now, by partnering with Inspection Express, they are entering a new era that combines expert reporting with cutting-edge innovation.

3D Virtual Tours, Marketing
Ming Osborne
Virtual Tours leave an impression on Property ...

3D Virtual Tours are fast becoming a staple of marketing a property. Aside from complimenting a new climate of ‘social distancing’, providing a contactless, interactive experience of a property over photos alone is the natural progression in a world where marketing has become so centered on having an impressive online presence.

A study by REA in April 2020 noted that 61% of viewers feel that properties with digital inspections make a listing feel more ‘premium’, and 62% felt more positively about the listing agent.

Virtual Tours leave an impression on Property Managers and Tenants
Ming Osborne
Virtual Display Villages

Asset Reports has been proud to work with home builders to bring their entire suite of display homes to life. Even amid the ease of restrictions, the Virtual Tours continue to be a valuable tool allowing viewers to get a sense of the size, scale and layout of the designs on offer in preparation for taking advantage of the new government incentives for building new properties.

Virtual Display Villages
Ming Osborne
Tax Depreciation in a Brand New Apartment

In the lead up to tax time, we wanted to shed some light on what exactly Depreciation is and how it can save investors thousands in tax deductions. We prepared this interactive model to show exactly what can be depreciated in an investment property.

As an investment property ages the value of the materials used to build it decrease in value, this loss in value can be claimed as a deduction at tax time. Blue labelled items come under Capital Works (Division 43), or construction of the property, which are depreciable over 40 years.

Tax Depreciation in a Brand New Apartment
Marketing, 3D Virtual Tours
Ming Osborne
Virtual tours help agents get buyers through ...

A high-resolution, 360-degree virtual tour could be one of the key ways agents look to show potential buyers a property, following the ban on public open homes and auctions from midnight, Wednesday March 25.

Camera services and agents have reported a spike in inquiries for virtual tours of property listings in the past week to fill the void left by government-mandated social distancing measures.

Asset Reports partner Tom Williams said high-quality, 360-degree views of listed properties were an invaluable tool for vendors and buyers alike.

“It’s helping [agents] get the listing and helping them engage the right buyer,” Mr Williams said.

“I’ve seen easily a 50 to 60 per cent increase in more business than the week prior. We’ve doubled our bookings.

Virtual tours help agents get buyers through properties as auctions, open homes banned

Tax Depreciation in a Brand New Apartment

Tax Depreciation in a Brand New Apartment

In the lead up to tax time, we wanted to shed some light on what exactly Depreciation is and how it can save investors thousands in tax deductions. We prepared this interactive model to show exactly what can be depreciated in an investment property.

As an investment property ages the value of the materials used to build it decrease in value, this loss in value can be claimed as a deduction at tax time. Blue labelled items come under Capital Works (Division 43), or construction of the property, which are depreciable over 40 years.

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Virtual tours help agents get buyers through properties as auctions, open homes banned

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Virtual tours help agents get buyers through properties as auctions, open homes banned

A high-resolution, 360-degree virtual tour could be one of the key ways agents look to show potential buyers a property, following the ban on public open homes and auctions from midnight, Wednesday March 25.

Camera services and agents have reported a spike in inquiries for virtual tours of property listings in the past week to fill the void left by government-mandated social distancing measures.

Asset Reports partner Tom Williams said high-quality, 360-degree views of listed properties were an invaluable tool for vendors and buyers alike.

“It’s helping [agents] get the listing and helping them engage the right buyer,” Mr Williams said.

“I’ve seen easily a 50 to 60 per cent increase in more business than the week prior. We’ve doubled our bookings.

How Asset Reports can help through COVID-19

How Asset Reports can help through COVID-19

The world has changed rapidly in the last few days.

We just wanted to share a few keys things we are doing to help you and your clients stay safe, be more efficient, and generate additional income in these uncertain times.

Asset Reports is complying with all the advice from the Federal Govt and Health Officials regarding the rapidly evolving COVID-19 situation.

We can assure our clients that we have proactively enforced the 14 day voluntary quarantine period for anyone who has travelled overseas well before the official advice came into effect.

Asset Reports & CoreLogic | 2020 Vision

Asset Reports & CoreLogic | 2020 Vision

On 24th October Asset Reports and CoreLogic hosted 2020 Vision - an informative evening that asked 'What will future Property Buyers think when they look back at this point in time as a buying opportunity?'

We heard from Damian Collins (Momentum Wealth) about the benefits of collaborating with buyers agents for properties in key areas, while Tim Lawless (CoreLogic) provided an insight into the Perth property market and a forecast of the economic and population growth for WA.

Perth's rental market continues to stabilise

Perth's rental market continues to stabilise

For the second quarter in a row, Perth’s rental market has continued to improve with the vacancy rate lowering to 2.5 per cent, 172 suburbs recorded an increase in leasing activity and 110 suburbs recorded an increase in median weekly rent. 

REIWA Deputy President, Lisa Joyce said Perth’s rental market appears to be building on the momentum of the latter half of 2019.

“This is very encouraging – not just for the rental market, but also for the overall property market as historically, the sales market follows the rental market during a recovery,” Ms Joyce said.

Time to do a Health-Check with your investors

Time to do a Health-Check with your investors

The best lead generation advice we’ve seen from events across the country is to do an annual Health Check on your Rent Roll. Call each of your owners to discuss their investment properties - this is the best database of investors you have access to!

The below graph shows the number of Australians investing in property, and the number of properties they own. There is quite a large difference between the number of Australians that own 1 investment property compared to 2. Getting in touch with your clients to discuss their investment strategy is a great way to start transitioning them from the first column into the remaining columns.

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REIWA Connect 2019

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REIWA Connect 2019

We’d like to thank REIWA for hosting another great conference this year, and we were excited and honoured that our Director John Williams was invited to speak to the Commercial members.

The attendees were awarded CPD points for John’s presentation which was titled: “Strengthening Commercial Lease Agreements with Property Inspection Reports”. The objective from DMIRS was to demonstrate how Property Inspection Reports will:

• Increase levels of Consumer Protection
• Increase Public Confidence in the Property industry
• Raise Industry Standards

7 Tax Time Tips for Investment Properties

7 Tax Time Tips for Investment Properties

EOFY might be over but tax time is still in full swing!

Here are some tax tips for Rental Properties provided by The Tax Institute:

  1. Keep all your receipts to justify the deductions that are being claimed. An absence of such receipts will make life very difficult if an audit calls for proof of the expense. 

  2. The property must either be rented, or “genuinely available" for rental in the income year for which a deduction is claimed. If you use the property for private purposes, you cannot claim expenses. 

Understanding Labor's Negative Gearing Policy

Understanding Labor's Negative Gearing Policy

Last week we hosted an event to discuss the proposed Negative Gearing changes and how they will affect the Perth property market if Labor win next month.

We heard directly from Madeleine King MP on the reasons why Labor is pushing for the changes, while David Cresp (Property Economist from Urbis) provided an update on the current Perth market and an assessment of the effects these changes may have here. 

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