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Buying Property for Dummies
Karin DERKLEY
Paperbark
Description
Buying your first home is the biggest, most terrifying financial transaction most people ever make. When making such an important decision, you need reliable information to ensure you chose the best property for you.
Buying Property For Dummies is the second edition of the best-selling Getting Started in Property For Dummies, and covers all the information first-home buyers need in one place. Learn about timing the market, working out how much you can afford, choosing the best location, getting the best finance and working with slippery real estate agents.
Introduction.
Part I: The Great Australian Dream.
Chapter 1: Assessing the Dream: Buying Property.
Chapter 2: Squeezing Your Foot onto the Property Ladder.
Chapter 3: The Position or the Property.
Chapter 4: Dealing with Property Professionals.
Part II: Finding Your Dream Home.
Chapter 5: The Search Is On.
Chapter 6: Buying a Piece of History.
Chapter 7: Renovator’s Dream (or Nightmare).
Chapter 8: Nice and New.
Chapter 9: Building from Scratch.
Part III: Borrowing For, Buying and Protecting Your Home.
Chapter 10: Climbing Aboard the Mortgage Merry-Go-Round.
Chapter 11: Going, Going, Gone: Buying at Auction.
Chapter 12: Making an Offer: Buying Through a Private
Treaty Sale.
Chapter 13: Sold to the Highest Bidder! Now What?
Part IV: The Part of Tens.
Chapter 14: Ten Things to Remember as a First Home Buyer.
Chapter 15: Ten Areas (Almost!) to Check at Open Homes
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