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Where to start your journey

The property market is hot. The worst thing you can do is sit on the sideline and do nothing. The second worst thing is to buy the wrong property and spend the next 10 years regretting your decision. The best thing to do is relax, research, prepare and build a rock-solid plan that allows you to live the life you want while growing your investment portfolio.

Millennials are leading the way with rentvesting, and there are other ways today’s investors are thinking about property compared with their parents or grandparents. But before that, it’s important to understand the cyclical nature of the market. It is imperative to think of investing in terms of cycles. It is an important framework that will save you from making mistakes at the top or bottom.

Even with all the available strategies and tools, if you don’t think in cycles, you’ll be consumed by emotions and eventually succumb to peer pressure, often leading to mistakes.

A time for everything

The world moves in cycles. We have cycles of time –

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