Geared for Growth Property Investing Podcast

This week, we're chatting with Jordan de Jong, who's a property investor and data science expert. And we take a deep dive into some of the things that are featuring in the real estate market, and will in the future from a technical point of view, such as big data and machine learning, which he gives us a great crash course on. We chat to him about how he got started in property purchasing, his fir...

Joining me for another bonus podcast is episode #61 guest, Oliver Jackson from Living Property. Industry-leading experts and some ANZ lending guru's will be joining Oliver and myself on November 13th at ANZ's branch located at 420 Saint Kilda Road, Melbourne, and then the following night of the 14th at their Westfield Airport West branch, Shop A147/29 Louis Street.  Presenters will be there to run...

I'll be one of the presenters at the Australian Property Investment Show, so I've asked the host Liam Austin on for a bonus episode to see what it's all about and how you can attend for free. It's an online-only event, with a handpicked line-up of over 20 of Australia's top property experts on 6-10 November, many of whom are past guests on the show. Attendees of the Australian Property Investment...

Kiani Mills, is the CEO of KLM Conveyancing. We kick off with exactly what a conveyancer does and go through the whole process of purchasing a property, from the exchange of contracts to understanding the cooling-off period and what happens with settlement, as well. She also gives some great advice for people that are looking to purchase a property and some of the key things that can go wrong as p...

This week we're chatting with Sam Gordon, who's the Director of Australian Property Scout. We have a chat to him about how he got his start in investing in property at 19 years old, the types of properties that he's purchased since then to get to 18 total properties as well. We have a chat to him about the foundational properties and the trident method that he's employed for himself and his client...

This week, we're chatting with David Johnston, the Founder and Managing Director of Property Planning Australia. David is a mortgage broker but far more than that, he's a property planning specialist. We talk about all of the boring but very important stuff! Setting the plan about what you're trying to achieve with property, where you're wanting to live, what sort of retirement income you're looki...

This week, we're chatting with Claire Corby, who's the founder of Capital Buyer's Agency. Now, this week we're zooming in to ACT and Canberra, so it's a real Canberra special. We have a chat to Claire about her background in accountancy and how she escaped, to become a buyer's agent, how she got into property, but really zoom into the Canberra market and some great tips on what investors need to b...

This week, we're chatting with Oliver Jackson, from Living Property. Now, although he's a buyer's agent, we have a chat to him about the strategy that he is employing to get fairly instant equity in his investments, over a short timeframe in this market. We also talk to him about the renovation projects that he worked on before he started this business, the splitter blocks that he's doing with a b...

This week, we're chatting with John Russell who is the Managing Director and founder at Accumlify Wealth. Now, John is a little bit unusual in the fact that he is an accountant, a financial planner and a real estate agent and we have a chat to him about the interplay between all of those bits of advice and then the asset allocation strategies as well. So, he has a chat to us about some of the key...

This week we're chatting with Jarrod McCabe, who's the Director at Wakelin Property Advisory. Now, Jarrod has a fantastic background in property valuation so he's a very analytical chap when it comes to selecting property and we chat to him about what makes an A grade property, some of the oversupply issues with apartments in Melbourne, and how he sources quality assets for investors and guides th...

This week, we're chatting with Drew Evans, who's one of the founders of Caifu Property. The theme for the interview, really, today, is instant equity, and we chat to Drew about how he helps property investors generate instant equity through small development projects. We have a chat to him about the risk in construction contracts with builders and how he secures land under market value and generat...

This week we're chatting with Chris Orr who's a real estate agent with Savills Real Estate in Sydney. Chris is a little bit unusual in that he works with the prestige property market, so properties that are transacting in excess of $10 million sometimes. So we have a chat to him about the differences between the high-end residential property and your average property market, what the difference in...

This week we're chatting with Luke Bailey, who's the founder of Fourtier Buyer's Agents. Now, Luke's got a great story in that his first foray into property investing was unsuccessful. He's very generous in sharing the reasons why the properties didn't double in the first seven to 10 years as it was expected. And we talk about his chance with a property investing guru, which set him on a different...

This week I'm chatting with a slightly man flued weird radio voice, so please bear with me on this one, but I'll make it up to you with today's interview I hope because we're chatting with Tommy Segoro, who is the founder of Easy Buyer's Agent. Now, Tommy's first investment property, he got wrong, so I'm finding it really interesting to dive into the reasons why that investment was a failure for T...

This week we're chatting with a real clever cookie, it's George Morice, one of the partners at Prime Partners Accountants. Now, I need to advise that George is an accountant, not a financial advisor, so any advice we've got here, is just general in nature, but we hear some great stories from George about his financial literacy education as an 8-year-old and an interesting way that his father taugh...

This week we're chatting with Daniel Walsh, who's a buyer's agent and founder of Your Property Your Wealth. Now, Daniel started investing at the age of 19 and at 27 had a property portfolio with 19 properties evaluated at over $4 million. We have a chat to Daniel about his mindset as a youngster and how he got bitten by the property bug. We also do a deep dive into the types of properties that he'...

This week we're chatting with Melissa Maimann, the Buyer's Agent, and we have a chat to her about how she serves both investors, owner-occupiers, and renters in the property market and she shares some great insights about how to select a property that all three are interested in. We talk about the opportunities in the market, a little bit of an idea about the more resilient pockets of real estate...

This week, we're chatting with Byron Miller, who's the managing director and principal of Asset Agents, in the Sunshine Coast. We have a chat to Byron about his background in real estate, how he became an investor at 20 years of age, and we really tease apart the Sunshine Coast Market. We talk about the growth drivers, the arrival of players like Stockland increasing supply, and what the main driv...

This week we're chatting with Jay Anderson, who's the director and owner of Jay Anderson Property. We have a good chat to Jay about his background in the hotels' industry, both from the business analysis point of view and an acquisition point of view. There are some great parallels for property investing that he's learned along that journey as well. He shares some fantastic information about how p...

This week we're chatting with Scott O'Neill who's the founder of Rethink Investing. Scott and his wife have a massive property portfolio in the tens of millions of dollars by the age of 31. They were both able to retire at age 28. They enjoy a solid passive income from their property portfolio and are able to travel three to six months of the year. We have a chat to Scott about how they've been ab...

This week we're chatting with Chris Bates who's a mortgage broker and financial adviser and he's the founder of Wealthful. He's also the co-host of the Elephant in the Room podcast. We have a chat to Chris about some of the elephants in the room at the moment, the financial landscape, the lending policies around serviceability with the banks. He gives us some great advice about how to begin our pl...

This week we're chatting with Anthony Alabakov who's the CEO and founder of My Mortgage Freedom they're a brokerage company. He works with a lot of high net-worth individuals across all sorts of funding services. We're talking development, self-managed, superfund, mum, and dad investors. We have a chat to him about how brokers work, how he can get the best deal for his clients, and a little bit ab...

This week we're chatting with Jane Slack-Smith who's the founder of Your Property Success and the owner of Investor's Choice Mortgages. We have a great chat with Jane about her three-pronged approach to property investing that is buying under market, renovating to increase equity, and increase the cash flow and also purchasing based on growth. So finding those growth property locations so she shar...

She's the co-host on the Lifestyle Channel and one of Australia's leading Real Estate experts. Sydney based property expert and Principle of Good Deeds Property Buyers, Veronica Morgan is an expert on Location, Location, Location and discusses property, low-risk markets to invest in and why it's important to talk to a local agent when it comes to buying. Morgan also is the co-host of The Elephant...

This week we're chatting with Malcolm Gunning, who is the principal of Gunning Real Estate and the president of the Real Estate Institute of Australia. We have a chat to Malcolm about all the political hot potatoes going around in the property industry at the moment, negative gearing, his idea about having a professional property minister. We talk about the Chinese market and its influence on Aust...