Pizza and Property

The fundamentals of property investing never seem to change when it comes to where to buy.    One of the big draw cards to help push up prices and maximise the return on your investment is proximity to water.    This episode we chat with young gun property investor Bill Childs about the top 3 low coast areas he's found close to the coast.    If you've been wanting to invest in a coastal area but t...

English economist John Maynard Keynes is quoted as saying    "Markets can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent"   Considering the overwhelming amount of information coming out of the media and social media machines about the potential market crash, it makes sense for us to learn about what important actions can be taken in times of irrational behaviour.    With John Maynard Keynes' quo...

It's no secret South Australia's been on the hot spot map for a while now.    Even as Sydney and Melbourne start to soften, the demand has been staying quiet solid little old Adelaide, if you're looking at investing in a market that is still bucking the eastern seaboard trend the Barossa Valley might be worth checking out.    When most people think of the Barossa Valley they think of world class w...

The term rental yield seems to be thrown around quite a lot in the property investing scene,    If you're new to property investing chances are you've heard people talk about it and potentially just smiled and nodded as the conversation moved on without genuinely understanding: What a rental yield is How to work out a rental yield and Cash-Flow Or why it's so important to know what yield you actua...

With the market going through the first stages of changing it's important to ask ourselves what strategies are still relevant and what is no longer going to help us move forward as property investors.  Is buying property off market a waste of time as we move into this new stage of the market cycle?  This episode we're going to talk exactly that with professional negotiator and former sales agent o...

As humans we love beating ourselves up talking about all the things we could have done with the benefit of hindsight.   But the fact is unless you've got a time machine there's no point trying to get back to the boom, but there is a lot of benefit   doing everything you can to set yourself up for the next one.     While so many others will be talking about what they should have or could have done...

Rates are rising, what does it mean for us as property investors? And what can we all do about it?   This episode we speak with Morgan Bushell, director of Full Circle Finance to better understand: Why rates are rising again this month? How much does this change translate to as weekly repayments  What are pro investors doing about it?   Chat in more detail with Morgan Bushell: https://www.fullcirc...

If a song was going to play whenever Helene Refuerzo walked into a room, it would have to be 'Break My Stride' by Matthew Wilder.    Because ain't nothing gonna break her stride, nothing's going to slow her down, she's got to keep on moving!    After hearing about the absolute resilience Helene Refuerzo lives her life with you can't help but feel inspired to do more.   Growing up in the Phillipine...

If interest rates continue to rise what are the logical knock on effects to the rest of the Australian economy? The people who will prosper the most over the coming years are the ones that keep a cool level head and search for the logical path and avoid the scare stories the media put out.  Daniel Walsh, director of Your Property Your Wealth, explains his take on how interest rates could move over...

We've spoken with a few investors on the show before that have built successful rooming house businesses, generally they'll pull in a very respectable 5 to 6 figure income from their rooms.    While returns like that are still nothing to be sneezed at, Navid Guia takes things to the next level operating approximately 250+ rooms in a rent-to-rent model alongside his own investment portfolio.    Nav...

With all the talk about interest rates going up, we're going to start to hear more talk about how to increase cashflow.  If you're already holding a high yielding property or property portfolio the rate rise might not affect you as much.    But...   If you're investments have the potential start costing you a stack of cash in holding expenses than it might pay to join the investors  already findin...

Buying property in 2022 is certainly a competitive, winner takes all experience. If you've been searching to buy property number one and start your portfolio or add to your existing portfolio you'll know that consistently missing out is just unfortunately part of the process today.  Does it have to be?  While the information you're about to hear is not a silver bullet to win every property, they a...

Buying your first investment property is such an exciting time! Getting everything ready to rent out and becoming a land lord feels like such an amazing accomplishment.  But what about the down sides? what are the stories you don't hear about the unexpected costs that can come up on properties you've just bought.  this weekly Slice we  speak with Adelaide based property managers Nicole Steele & El...

We talk about the building blocks that go into creating a property portfolio all the time, but what we don't talk about is the importance of implementing a system to run and manage your portfolio.  Charley Valher has been a successful business owner since his early 20's, so when it came to re investing his profits into property he thought it was just the norm to run the portfolio like a business. ...

You keep asking for areas under $400k and we keep providing them! This episode we have our resident data expert on the show to unpack the Queensland city of Townsville.  A mixture of affordable prices and a lack of historic growth are just some of the factors that have caused Townsville to be on the Hot Spot list today with Arjun Paliwal.    Talk more with Arjun and his team: https://www.investork...

You might remember the conversation around price in 2019 - it normally went a little something like this:   Buyer - How much is that property?  Selling agent - Asking Price $720k (property goes under contract) Sold price $700k    I feel like the same conversation in 2022 is a little closer to this:  Buyer - How much is that property?  Selling agent - Asking Price $720k (property goes under contrac...

The Labor government has recently announced their new help to buy scheme or home equity scheme.  This new scheme might not affect you as an investor directly but it certainly has the potential to kick the market into another buying frenzy.  But how does it work? And why could this potentially light the fuse on another boom in the property market? To walk us through this we have Joe Tucker, directo...

Building a property portfolio if you're earning $200k per year is still an amazing thing to achieve, but there's something extra amazing when you hear a story like Rodney Holder's.  Not only did this man build a portfolio while his income was inconsistent but he also did it while following his dream of touring the world as the drummer of a death metal band!  While the death metal part of Rodneys'...

Have you ever wondered how do people actually get the agent to bring them an off market property?  Having that first look at a property and ability to offer can be a massive advantage when you're in such a hot market like the one we're in now  if you're wanting to understand the ins and outs of building the connections so you can have those off market opportunities brought to you this is 100% the...

It feels like more investors than ever are running towards the high cashflow and long term leases on offer in the commercial property space  Should you be looking into commercial property too? or is it something you need to stay away from? This episode we unpack the pros and cons of investing in commercial property and the questions you need to ask yourself to better understand if it's right or wr...

All booms must come to an end, but is now that time for the Sydney property market? We talk with Sydney property expert Chris Gray to find out his thoughts. Is there merit to some of the news articles being written?  Are people going to start flooding back into Sydney now Covid feels like its coming to and end? And has Chris changed his investing strategy given how low the rental yields are now? ...

A couple of years back some pretty big changes happened to the Victorian Tenancy Act,   some of these changes sound like they could cause a big issue for landlords or potentially even put them in a very difficult financial position.    To understand these changes better we thought a talk was in order with the man that's been working in the property management field for over 10 years in 3 different...

Getting into an area with solid investment data for under $400,000 is getting rarer and rarer to find in 2022, if this is the investing budget you're working with this episode could be very helpful for you.  The data expert himself Arjun Paliwal walks us through a few of the facts and figures on Tamworth NSW    Talk more with Arjun and his team: https://www.investorkit.com.au/   Join Todd Sloan ea...

If someone says the word "budget" it's pretty safe to say not  many people get excited.  But if someone says the words  "Bigger deposit and better borrowing power" you'd probably correct them and say "That's a sentence not a word but please tell me more I love the idea of having a better deposit and the potential ability to invest more".  Good, you're in the right place!  This episode we speak wit...

How is the federal government investing in Australia this year?  This weekly slice we chat with Mike Mortlock from MCG Quantity Surveyors about the top three takeaways for property investors in this years federal budget. If you know anyone that's wanting to buy their first home it might be a good idea to send them this link quick!    Chat in more detail with Mike Mortlock: https://www.mcgqs.com.au...