Unemployable Property

Originally released on Unemployable Media on 24 June 2025. This episode has been re-released on the Unemployable Property channel as part of our dedicated property archive - bringing our best property conversations together in one place. Think you need to go to NAB or Commonwealth to fund your next property deal? Think again. In this episode we sit down with Chris Wright from Fincierge, a property...

Originally released on Unemployable Media on 18 Nov 2025.This episode has been re-released on the Unemployable Property channel as part of our dedicated property archive - bringing our best property conversations together in one place. This episode takes you inside the creation of one of Australia’s most expensive homes as Brad Moran breaks down the design choices, the real costs, and the lessons...

A valuation can kill your development before a single slab is poured. The bank flips straight to the number, checks it against what you paid, and decides whether your deal gets funded. Amy Bowater, Associate Director at Savills Valuations and Advisory, explains how development sites are valued from the other side of the desk. She covers how valuers find comparables when there aren't any, what marg...

Investors are pouring life savings into NDIS disability housing, chasing headline returns, only to end up with a house that sits empty and a mortgage that doesn't stop. Two of the sharpest minds in SDA property break down how spruikers exploit good intentions, why so many of these homes can't find a tenant, and the data-driven method serious investors use to avoid getting burned. 👉 Want t...

One wrong clause can cost a developer their deposit, their contract, and months of holding costs. Property lawyer Jamie Felstead breaks down the structure the ATO flags as a red flag, the due diligence clause every new developer needs, and how experienced buyers lock up land without signing a contract at all. Settlements are already failing across South East Queensland as buyers walk from deals th...

Australia has been writing the same housing report for twenty years. Another one just landed. Jess Caire from the Property Council on what is actually blocking supply: tax at every stage of a property's life, lots frozen in federal referrals, and approvals that took six months in 1979 now taking fifteen years. 👉 Got runs on the board? Let's have a chat. Apply here: https://unemployableproperty.co...

Most developers look at three termite-eaten houses on site and see a demo bill. Carson and Shannon walk Bonogin and show how one of those houses became a payment coming the other way, why softwood is the tell for what you cannot save, and where the salvage value hides. Then it is out into the acreage blocks. A farm dam that has to become an engineered sediment basin, sixty metres of untouchable cr...

Getting into a joint venture with the wrong person will cost you years. Getting into one with the right person can turn ten months into two completed developments and an affordable housing mission.  Tim and Katie brought the money and the time. Assem brought the knowledge. Their first deal was a rural block with a railway on the back fence, sold off-market before a single lot hit realestate.com. T...

Most developers rely on one thing to find deals: a real estate agent. Les Luxford stopped doing that 20 years ago and built a nine-pillar system that's moved over $2 billion in property. He walks Carson and Sharpy through exactly how it works. The letters that hit a 25% response rate. The phone tactic that pulls a price out of any vendor. The referral partner making $200k part-time. And the two Qu...

Most developers lose money before they even settle. They just don't know it yet. Jason Webster of Legend Consultants exposes the deal killers hiding in plain sight on almost every block. 👉 Want to get started in property development? Learn more here: https://www.unemployableproperty.com.au/p-ffd  👉 Interested in Third-party Funding?  Learn more here: https://unemployable.com.au/fund    👉 Intere...

One of the last big rural res blocks on the Gold Coast. Same family since 1870. Fourteen offers on the table. We weren't the highest, but our terms won it. Now Carson and Shannon are carving ten lots through a gully, a creek, and a seven metre retaining wall Council didn't want to sign off on.👉 Want to get started in property development? Learn more here: https://www.unemployableproperty.com.au/p...

Trudy was a Gold Coast nurse with two blocks of land, a big idea, and a handshake. No written JV, no feasibility, no land valuation. Then her business partner ghosted her mid-project. What happened next became a first-of-its-kind LGBTI aged care facility, a $700K payday on a single subdivision, and a full playbook on how to actually structure a JV. 👉 Want to get started in property development? L...

In 10 years baby boomers start dying out of Australia's best located suburbs. Simon Kuestenmacher says it will change property development forever. But the next decade belongs to the urban fringe, and the new budget just rewrote the rules for investors. 👉 Want to get started in property development? Learn more here: https://www.unemployableproperty.com.au/p-ffd  👉 Interested in Third-party Fundi...

Most people think property development takes millions in cash. This episode shows how the right deal, the right finance structure, and $4.2M in soft equity helped turn a development site into a serious profit engine, including one block resold from $695K to $900K. 👉 Want to get started in property development? Learn more here: https://www.unemployableproperty.com.au/p-ffd  👉 Interested in Third-...

Everyone says you can't build apartments for less than $10,000 a metre. Christie Leet is building them at $4,000. In this first episode of Housing Unplugged, the cane farmer's son behind Sherpa reveals why he reserves entire floors for first home buyers, sells 5% below market, and the one ratio that decides whether a high rise deal works. This is how affordable housing actually gets built....

70 rain days, a half-million-dollar road that gets used once a decade, and head-high unsuitable soil that nobody saw coming. This is what a 20-lot subdivision actually costs. 👉 Want to get started in property development? Learn more here: https://www.unemployableproperty.com.au/p-ffd 👉 Interested in Third-party Funding? Learn more here: https://unemployable.com.au/fund 👉 Interested in the accou...

The Gold Coast just beat every capital city in Australia for economic growth, and that is exactly why nurses and firefighters can no longer afford to live there. Deputy Mayor and Planning Chair Mark Hammel sits down for an unplugged session on the city being loved to death: 420 new residents a week, a housing deficit running at less than half what is needed, and essential workers now priced out un...

Everyone says childcare centres just print money. The guy with 8 of them says that's the lie that wrecks people. Jay Luckie went from carrying bonnets across a garage floor to 8 childcare centres and $85M in developments. In this one he opens the books: how cap rates actually decide if you win or lose, how an $8.5M profit collapsed to $500K because of council delays and rate rises, and why "bigger...

His son was 12 when he found a six-figure property deal that everyone else missed. Carson and Shannon have done $40M+ in development and they still say the best deals are hiding in plain sight. Here is how they find them.👉 Want to get started in property development? Get our FREE 11-part video series here: https://unemployable.com.au/11-part-series-yt    👉 Interested in property coaching? Learn...

He was the number one real estate salesman in Australia. He sold $2 billion worth of the homes he now says we should never have built. Kevin Doodney walked away from the commissions, the business class seats, and the five-level mansion, because he realised he'd spent 40 years making the housing crisis worse. Now he's on a mission to fix it. In this episode, Kevin breaks down why Australia&...

👉 Ben Cutting spent 20 years playing cricket across the world, earned serious IPL money, and spent every hotel room he could reading RBA papers and downloading development plans, because he always knew the real game was property. The Unemployable Property team sits down with professional cricketer turned real estate agent and small scale developer Ben Cutting for a straight-talking conversation a...

The May 12 budget was sold as a tax shake-up for the wealthy, but Ashley Walsh says ordinary property investors could be the ones hit hardest. In this episode, Ashley Walsh from GJ Walsh joins Eric, Carson and Shannon to break down the proposed 2026 budget changes affecting property investors, trusts, bucket companies, negative gearing and capital gains tax. Using worked examples, Ashley shows how...