The Property Couch

Carrying on with our real estate agent season, today we have another special guest star Tim Heavyside on the show with Bryce and Ben. An award-winning Real Estate Agent, Director and Auctioneer for Fletchers Real Estate , Tim has an impressive professional history in this industry dating back 15 years. As a very knowledgeable and personable star on the show, there is no doubt that you will receive...

Can’t believe it has been 11 weeks since our last Q&A ! We’ve got quite a line-up of great guests on the show for the past couple of months so for today’s podcast, we will be doing a Q&A instead. Thanks for sending in your question Bryce and Ben will be answering questions from: Bernard on Borderless Investing :  Alisdair on Loan Redraw Facilities :  Lakhwinder on Location Research : Clayt...

Housing Affordability. APRA. Investor’s Lending. Super Property Deposit Debate. These are headline news for the last few weeks which have been monopolising the business section of most press for some time now. So, we don’t think we can wait any longer either! Now, what did they chat about today? You would be expecting conversation around the long-term sustainability of the Australian Property Mark...

Bryce recently appeared on our good friend, Kevin Turner’s podcast, Real Estate Talk and we thought it would be a good idea to share it with you guys! If you haven’t checked it out yet, tune in to Kevin’s podcast for some great quality property investment news, tips and strategy from Australia’s Top Property Experts and more. In this Bonusisode, Bryce and Kevin will be chatting about: Why Bryce ch...

Carrying on from Part One , here’s the second instalment of Episode 110 featuring one of Australia’s most renowned Buyer’s Agents, Frank Valentic on the couch today with Bryce and Ben. Now, let’s get into it straight away! For Part Two, the guys will be chatting about: Factors to consider when researching a location ie gentrification , schooling, lifestyle and more Scarcity in property and what ty...

To carry on our Real Estate Agent series, we have Frank Valentic for this 2-part episode! A household name and Director of Advantage Property Consulting , Frank often appears on the TV series The Block, helping his buyers snatch up a few properties on auction day! He joins Bryce and Ben today to give you all an insight into his world of being one of Australia’s leading Buyer’s Agents. In part one,...

We are excited to announce that today’s episode is the start of our Real Estate Agent Series! Joining us to kick start this series is Glen Coutinho , Director and Senior Auctioneer for RT Edgar . With over 30 years of experience within the industry, Glen lets us in on some valuable tips to keep in mind during property auctions, how to deal with selling agents and more! Here are some of the key top...

Back in Episode 102 , Bryce and Ben discussed if we are facing an affordability issue and when Jan Somers appeared on our show last month, she mentioned that her aunt was also concerned about housing affordability back in the 1950s. Now, with the Federal Budget just a couple of months away, this topic appears yet again, and it seems to be the favourite amongst our politicians. This time, the debat...

We hope you enjoyed the first part of this two-part special guest week episode! In the second instalment of this episode with Nicole Faid; Bryce, Ben and Nicole all go into more detail concerning conveyancing, whilst focusing on some of the following areas: Off the plan contracts: What to expect and be aware of. Possibility of getting your deposit back if you decide to pull out of the deal. Anecdo...

Due to there being an excess of absolute gold in yet another special guest week episode, we’ve had to split this week’s episode into two! Today joining Bryce and Ben for this hour-long episode is Nicole Faid , principal and founder of Accord Conveyancing .  With over 25 years of industry experience, and managing around 15,000 conveyancing transactions during her career so far, the insights and opi...

In this joint episode with The Smart Property Investment Show, Phil chats with Ben about the importance of a good money management system when investing in property, having a sound but flexible strategy in place and understanding what you want to achieve at the end of this game of property investing. We have mentioned a few times on The Property Couch that it is important to have an end goal in mi...

A few of our listeners have asked us about Fractional Property Investment; what is it and how it actually works. It is a relatively new investing concept and often, people are confused if it’s investing in shares or property especially when it comes to ownership of the property. So we’ve invited Anthony Millet , CEO of BRICKX , to come on the show and share his expertise! Appointed as the CEO back...

Our second Live Podcast Recording at the Melbourne Property Buyer Expo last weekend was with Effie Zahos ! With more than 20 years in the finance and journalism industry, Effie started as a graduate trainee for Westpac and then moved on to be the head researcher for Channel Nine’s successful Money program in 1997. She has been the editor of Money Magazine since 1999 as well as the magazine’s banki...

After last week’s much-anticipated talk with Jan Somers who is an example of someone who has made many successful choices when building her 40-plus-year-old portfolio, today’s episode features Bryce and Ben discussing seven of the most common ways many of us lose money when investing in property. With key advice and some examples of how and why the choices we make as property investors can have a...

As promised, here is the second part of the highly anticipated Episode featuring the incredibly humble housewife, author of 4 best-selling property books, and sophisticated property investor and property educator extraordinaire, Jan Somers. In this part, Bryce, Ben and Jan discuss the following areas: The mistakes she made along the way – holiday homes, overcapitalising and more Types of propertie...

We are extremely excited here on The Property Couch this week to announce the long-awaited meeting with our special guest today, JAN SOMERS (as we’re sure you would agree)! With a successful property portfolio spanning over 40 years with countless properties within the country, Jan is an inspirational, property-investing mogul who we all could learn a lot from. As we gained so much gold from the h...

Finally, back in the studio again this week and as mentioned in Ben’s latest RBA cash rate announcement video, this episode of the podcast has Bryce and Ben talking about the all-time hot debate topic: The Housing Affordability Issue. But before that, we just want to highlight that the podcast has reached another one of our milestones! 1,027,000 DOWNLOADS! A big thank you to all of our listeners f...

With a fresh start this week for The Property Couch after our much-anticipated 100th episode last week, the energy definitely hasn’t dwindled as Episode 101 has Bryce and Ben discussing the six critical foundations to building your wealth plan. From the comfort of Ben’s home instead of the studio this week, (as not even an operation can delay an episode of TPC), the guys discuss foundations such a...

Happy Australia Day and thank you to all of you who had supported us for the past 99 episodes! It has been an incredible journey, and we are very grateful and amazed at how far we’ve come. This is just the beginning, and we promise you that for the next 100 episodes, we are definitely going bigger and better! With new segments, more case studies, guest interviews and innovative data research platf...

As Bryce puts it today, we’ve made it to “99, not out!” and with just 1 episode to go before the big 1-0-0, we’re back to provide you with another Q&A Session. In today’s episode, Bryce and Ben give advice on whether to sell your home, tips for investing later on in life, what to do when your property portfolio is falling into a downward spiral, and more. Today’s questions are from the followi...

It’s the second week into the new year, and we’ve got yet another exciting and information-packed episode for you today. Joining Bryce and Ben on another online interview podcast is Property Journalist and Review Editor of Domain , Jennifer Duke ( @JennieDuke ). Today the duo and their special guest who “lives and breathes property” discuss Jen’s professional background and how she got into proper...

First things first, Happy New Year everyone! And what an exciting new year we have for you all here on The Property Couch. We’ll let Bryce and Ben fill you in on what’s to come, but for now, we thought we’d kick the new year off with a fresh Q&A session.  In today’s episode, Bryce and Ben answer the following 7 questions which are: Volks on Mechanics of Lenders Mortgage Insurance (LMI) :  Jami...

Joining us on our first online recording today is Prue Muirhead! Prue is the co-founder of Muirhead Property Management , the 2010 Property Investor of the Year, teaches property investment and property management at TAFE Adelaide and is an active investor with 18 positively geared properties under her belt. So in today’s episode, Bryce and Ben will be chatting with her about how she builds her po...

SURPRISE! On this Boxing Day, we are having a joint podcast with Phil Tarrant from Smart Property Investment Show ! Phil joined us back in Episode 52 talking about his journey as a property investor but in this Bonusisode (Bonus Episode), the focus will be on investing in property in 2017! Ben and Phil will be chatting about: The Health of the Australian Property Market in 2017 Understanding the d...

As Christmas is a time for giving, we thought today’s special Christmas episode should be none other than a Q&A session!  Topics covered today include debt-retirement and refinancing loans, how to go about upgrading your PPOR (Principle Place of Residence), whether it’s worth paying for a financial planner and more. (And click here for your free The Property Couch Christmas Pack !)  Today’s qu...