The Property Couch

Alright folks: what does the drummer from The Screaming Jets and property investment have in common? Craig “Rosie” Rosevear! That’s right—on The Couch today, the man behind the drums of one of Australia’s legendary bands explains how he used his royalties to break into the property market and transformed his touring days into a growing property portfolio and now, a charismatic, auctioning career!...

Today we’re in for a special treat with a Government figure—who just so happens to be directly involved with the rules about what we build, planning the future story of housing in Sydney and all of NSW! Yep, that’s right. We’ve gone to the top! We have Chris O’Dell —the man from Research and Insights in NSW’s Department of Planning and Environment on the show. Chris manages a very brainy team who...

We’re very excited to announce that Josh & Jenna —who, let’s face it, ditched their surnames after becoming household names on the 2011 series of The Block—have landed, with their 8-week-old bubba, Freddie, on the Couch! The husband and wife duo, also featuring on The Block’s All-Star Series and Reno Rumble, are founders of Melbourne-based interior bicker design . With Josh a qualified plumber...

What would you do if you arrived from Fiji to Australia with only $4,500 to your name and little else? Well, that’s exactly what today’s guest, Victor Kumar , Partner at Right Property Group , and his wife did in 1997. And their story is truly extraordinary! Within 1 and a half years in Australia, the radiographers—thanks to reading The Wealthy Barber and Building Wealth Through Investment Propert...

Awe-Guest, for us, is about bringing in experts from all walks of life and we are proud to say that we’ve finally got Rachel Cole on the show! Welcome, Rach!! Rach is an accomplished performer, singer and actor and is currently understudying Miss Honey, Mrs Wormwood and Mrs Phelps on Matilda The Musical (yes, that one), after understudying Nessa Rose in the Australasian tour of WICKED. A young pro...

Disclaimer: This is Beyond Mind-blowing. Think technology. Think crazy. Think sci-fi films, actually. Yep. This podcast is futuristic—except, all this crazy tech stuff is happening in the future arriving sooner than you think! To tell us all about it (and to bewilder us), Nigel Dalton —one with the coolest title going around— Chief Inventor at realestate.com.au (REA) —literally awes the couch. Wit...

That’s right guys. Duncan McPherson , Director at Nelson Alexander (also a successful property consultant, auctioneer, founder of Nelson Alexander Charitable Foundation and a property investor himself) started his roots in a small country town as, well, a butcher. Yep—his story is absolutely a white-butcher’s-coat to wealth-building-creation! Duncan is a family man, centred on honest and committed...

Happy AWE-GUEST! Yep, the month of “Awe-guest” — it’s a little bit witty isn’t it  — means only awesome things because we are releasing 2 EPISODES A WEEK WITH THE MOST AWESOME GUESTS for the entire month! To kick start Awe-guest, we are stoked to announce Nerida Conisbee , Chief Economist at REA Group is here for the second time — you can listen to her first episode on which market to invest in 20...

Alright, folks! It’s Q & “Accounting” time! Yep, on the couch today we’re talking all things tax! Here to help us wade through the grey area is Frank Azzopardi from our friends at YK Partners . If the name sounds familiar, it’s because Frank joined us back in Episode 48 ! So, we’ve received a couch-load of questions about tax lately, and quite a few of you have these questions because you’ve “...

Did we deliver on the gold in PART ONE ? Jeremy Sheppard, also the Director of Research at Select Residential Property, definitely has a serious knack for data collection and analysis, doesn’t he?  Chasing the tail of Part One, PART TWO unpacks the remaining 3 of the 8 fundamental indicators that affect demand and supply. The last 3 are: Vendor Discount Rental Yield Renters versus owner-occupiers...

We’ve been building this one up a bit, haven’t we? But TODAY is the day we’ve got Jeremy Sheppard on the couch! Jeremy—himself an investor with 16 properties in his own portfolio—explains his years of passion in data collection, analysis and research into the levels of supply and demand (across every market and 15,000 suburbs in Australia). This passion pioneered the DSR Formula and the inception...

Alright, folks, it’s that time again … you ask, and the boys answer! After receiving a tabletop full of new topics, we’ve taken our que this week behind an anonymously-sent testimonial. Turns out an earlier podcast Why You Shouldn’t Invest in Property saved our listener from being “sold a lemon by a spruiker”! Yep. Unfortunately, guys, the property spruikers are still out there, so Bryce & Ben...

Welcome to Episode 123! We’ve been looking forward to unpacking this one all week! Guess what? The boys are going to walk you through THE perfect textbook investment property. As in the very one that ticks ALL the owner-occupier appeal boxes. The one that’s going to land you the biggest capital growth payday! So from the suburb right down to the shelves to store your stuff… B1 & B2 will explai...

It’s that time again … a few questions from you and a few answers from the boys! Oh, before we give you a tiny tease about today’s podcast … just a huge shout out for being SO supportive about our technical glitch last week. Our inbox was flooded with all of your emails and concerns—please know that our hearts burst (with love) and we missed you all too! We really did. But we’re back and better th...

Part two with Damien Cooley , Australia’s most respected auctioneer and the face of Cooley Auctions , On top of his Australian record—see part 1— he has an uncountable number of industry trophies tucked under that orange tie—winning the 2015 & 2013 Auctioneer of the Year at the Real Estate Business Awards for example—and has performed auctions on other reality TV series, including The Renovato...

We’re pretty chuffed to announce that Damien Cooley , one of Australia’s most respected auctioneers and the face of Cooley Auctions , has landed a spot on the couch! For those not in the know: Damien holds the Australian record for the highest sale of a single dwelling home sold at auction—no easy feat at $23 Million—and is the most booked auctioneer on The Block , having appeared on the show nine...

We’ve finally got Tom Panos on the show! For those who are unfamiliar with Tom, he’s the founder of the Real Estate Gym, 5 am Club, co-host of the Million Dollar Agent podcast, a weekly commentator on SKY News Business, Channel 602, Real Estate Advertising Director for News Corp and is one of Sydney’s leading Real Estate Auctioneers as well as being a sought-after keynote for the Real Estate indus...

That is basically what we are talking about in today’s podcast as inspired by two of our listeners who wrote in. Now, rewind a few episodes, and you’ll find the boys quoting Albert Einstein's famous words, “Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it earns it… he who doesn’t… pays it.” And today’s focus is all about getting the foundation RIGHT, finding the SWEE...

Today’s podcast title is a direct quote from our special guest, Craig Stephens ! As the Managing Director of Jas Stephens , with a history spanning over 90 years and four generations and the leading real estate agency in Melbourne’s Inner West, Craig is also an active investor himself who started building his portfolio back in the late 1980s. He started off as a bond trader and worked with Merrill...

We’ve got Bradley Beer , CEO of BMT Tax Depreciation on the podcast today! Now, some of you might remember Bradley back in Episode 10 where we talked about what is a tax depreciation schedule, how it works and if all property investors should have one done. For today’s episode, however, we will be relating back to Episode 115 where we chat about the impact of the recently released Federal Budget o...

It’s Q&A Time! Now, we answered a few questions in the last episode but realised we wouldn’t be able to respond to all of your questions at this rate, so we’ll be doing a Facebook Live very soon. Stay tuned for that! On another note, there’s an exciting announcement at the end of this episode so make sure you stick around. And here are the Free Resources mentioned in today’s podcast: Property...

What a week! Apologies for the podcast’s downtown earlier this week and thank you to those of you who wrote in to us. We had a system update and things didn’t quite work out as we wanted them to be. That aside, the 2017 Federal Budget has been released just a couple of days ago. So let’s talk about that. There were a few proposals relating to the affordability issue and a couple more that aims at...

Following on from Part One , the second part with Brad Teal focused on Victoria’s new underquoting laws that came into effect on the 1st of May 2017. For those new to the real estate industry, underquoting as defined by the Consumer Affairs of Victoria is: Underquoting can occur when a property is advertised at a price that is less than the estimated selling price, the seller’s asking price, or at...

The last episode of our Elite Agent Series is with Brad Teal , Director and Founder of Brad Teal Real Estate ! Born and raised in Melbourne’s northwest coupled with more than 40 years of experience in the real estate industry, Brad’s understanding of the real estate market, property trends in the area and local facilities and amenities are second to none. And how did he build up his property empir...

Another exciting episode of the podcast this week! Joining Bryce and Ben on the couch is a certified practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic Programming, Public Speaker, and author of The Ultimate Book of Influence and Useful Belief, Chris Helder . After moving to Melbourne 21 years ago from the USA, Chris has become one of Australia’s leading keynote speakers who explains mastering the power of the mind...