Home of the Century

Most of us will face it at some point. Your own life, your own family, your own mortgage... and then a parent needs you to step in and help with theirs. Liam sold his mum's beachside apartment of more than a decade, shortlisted and interviewed agents on her behalf, and ran the negotiation from a hotel room in Texas at midnight. Erin and Darren find out how he chose the right agent when it wasn...

Everyone tells you renovating is the smart money. So what makes a couple stop, look at the plans they'd already had approved, and walk away from the whole thing? That's the question at the heart of this episode. Erin and Darren find out how Sally and Nick learned to trust their timing... when to sell, when to hold, and when the renovation everyone assumes is the clever play is actually the...

Thirty years ago, Peter and Jenny saw a photo in a magazine. They couldn't even see the house... just a lake, some trees, and five acres an hour from Sydney. It was in their price bracket, so they backed themselves and bought it. Your hosts Erin Holland and Darren Palmer visit Guestlands in Arcadia, a property that looks like it was lifted straight out of Tuscany. Peter and Jenny share how a m...

Most people who've made serious money in property show you the highlight reel. This episode goes everywhere else. Your hosts Erin Holland and Darren Palmer sit down with Craig and Sam, a couple who've moved through ten properties across two cities and raised three kids along the way. They talk openly about the property they wish they'd never sold, the renovations that ran well over bud...

Smallzy has spent 23 years in the rooms, at the dinners, on the tours. He knows what people want before they know they want it. Turns out... that's exactly the mindset you need when you're buying and selling property. Your hosts Erin Holland and Darren Palmer visit Smallzy at his stunning Sydney home... and what follows is one of the most entertaining and genuinely useful episodes in the s...

What would your life look like if you stopped competing for space in the most expensive city in the country... and just left? That's the question at the heart of this episode. Two kids sharing a bedroom, 13 years in the same inner city apartment, and a property market that kept moving the goalposts. Sound familiar? For one Sydney couple, the answer wasn't to stretch further into debt. It was to re...

The question every growing family eventually faces... do you move, or do you build what you need right where you are? Your hosts Erin Holland and Darren Palmer sit down with Claire and Mick Neil, a Sydney couple who bought their inner city home while living overseas, raised three boys in it, and chose to stay and build. In this episode they share the honest version of what that actually looks like...

The property market feels impossible right now. But what if the biggest barrier isn't the market... it's the way you're thinking about getting in? In Episode 1, Erin Holland and Darren Palmer get personal. Filmed at the apartment where Darren's entire property career began, this is the conversation most first home buyers never get to have... raw, honest, and full of the kind of insight that only c...

Home of the Century is the podcast that makes property feel possible. Hosted by Erin Holland and Darren Palmer and powered by Century 21, every episode goes inside the real decisions, real negotiations, and real homes of everyday people across Australia and New Zealand. In this trailer... hear from first home buyers, renovators, investors, and families who found a way in when the door felt firmly...