Pizza and Property

Scott Aggett is fast becoming the go to guy for Australian real estate negotiations, this is a man who has put together deals on both sides of the buyer and seller fence for over 2 decades!  This episode we unpack Scott's 20+ years experience and package as much of it as we could fit into 1 episode that you are going to want to listen to again and again to help increase the odds of securing the be...

Episode 2 of our brand new "INVESTOR SERIES" is here with Steve Palise. Last week Steve walked us through things like, What to do if you can't find enough comp sales? This week we take a deep dive into the questions to ask the tenants and business analysis. Some of the points we cover with Steve are: - What kind of documents you should you be trying to obtain from the tenants? - What are some of t...

Does anyone else remember that Will Smith song from the 90's "Boom Boom Boom shake the room?" Apparently the Australian rental market has it stuck on repeat right now... As we potentially enter one of the biggest rental boom's in Australian history.  Sam Gordon from Australian Property Scout walks us though some of the key indicators that are driving this boom and also what to keep an eye on to se...

It's one thing to buy a property, it's another to build a portfolio, a massive amount of time effort and sacrifice is needed to create a financial asset like Olivia Ward has created. The thing we love about Olivia is that she is so quick to share her ups and downs and all the skills she has acquired along the way in terms of putting together a team that wins in property investing.  This is an epis...

Episode 2 of our brand new "INVESTOR SERIES" is here with Steve Palise. Last week Steve walked us through things like, what is "Black Soil" and what value adds to look for that the selling agent may have missed. This episode we're talking about Area research.     Some of the points we cover with Steve are: - What to do if you can't find enough comp sales? - How can office spare or mezzanine areas...

This episode we speak with a Man with over 20 years of experience in the Western Sydney market, someone that's sold over 2,500 homes! as well as gone thought more ups and downs than our good friend Terry the renovating lift mechanic! We are speaking with Joel Hollings from McGrath about what's happening on the ground in the West.  We talk about: - How has demand shifted from this time last year? -...

This episode came about after we had a msg come into the pizza shed from Chris Langton, Chris wanted to know  "G'day Todd, love the podcast mate really enjoying the variety and learning plenty through listening. I'm keen to know how best to start out in property investing to ensure you don't max out your borrowing capacity too soon, how have others on average incomes managed to grow 6 + property p...

We are so excited to announce our very first episode of our brand new "INVESTOR SERIES" Who better to kick it off than author of Commercial Property Investing Explained Simply Steve Palise.  In this first episode of this investor series Steve is going to walk us through some of the most important parts of the due diligence checklist. The dollars really are in the details in commercial property and...

Here at Pizza and Property we love chatting with the one half of the property nerds Arjun Paliwal whenever we get the chance. there are few that get as excited about property data as this man! In this episode we speak with Arjun about what's happening in the Victorian property market.  A few points we cover: - What's the data saying about the Melbourne apartment market? - What areas are seeing the...

I don't know about you but when I think of the word wholesale I think about Coles buying up tonnes of fruit and veg, or Harvey Norman buying 5000 TVs to on-sell at a profit... I don't think of real estate. Jason John Byron however thinks of exactly that! Jason is a man who I think it's safe to say is obsessed with creating property deals at wholesale prices and selling them at retail. We cover so...

Little old Adelaide might be the home of big new profits... With the property market around the country performing amazingly in most areas, we wanted to take a look into an area that has been getting a lot of attention recently to see what all the fuss is about and what's actually happening in terms of growth and demand. We speak with my good friend and college David Liston about his professional...

It can only take a few minutes on facebook before you have an information overload of all the best strategies you should be implementing on your property investment journey... Trouble is, how do you know what's the right stratagy for you? Mark Shearwood is a man with an amazing amount of property investing experience over almost every property stratagy there is. Having started in the real estate s...

Before speaking with Adam we thought meth testing was something you would only see in the worst of the worst areas... Apparently not! While it certainly would feel like overkill to test every single home, this might be a problem that's a little more widespread than we might think.  Getting a property tested for meth might not be as crazy as might have once been thought... Adam Shaw walks us throug...

Living in the information age is amazing for so many reasons, what we can get our hands our in terms of suburb information today would have been almost impossible 20 years ago. Having so much information at our fingertips now presents a different issue: sorting through it all to find out what's actually relevant to us and our own property investment journey.  This is where Suburbsfinder.com.au com...

We have been speaking a lot about investing in regional areas lately, the move away from the big smoke to an easier life where you can get more bang for your buck and potentially much more return for you investment dollar. But, what if one of these areas is known as a global tourist hotspot? Is the lack of overseas visitors making the market crash? That is exactly what we speak about with Shaun (H...

Setting goals at the start of the year is pretty commonplace, unfortunately the other thing that's pretty commonplace is not completing them... statistically by mid Feb you will have resorted back to what is easy and forgone your goals for 2021... That's not what we're about here at Pizza & Property, we want our pizza crew to have every chance of nailing their goals and owning 2021. That's exactly...

We hope you've been enjoying our reno check inns with Terry Reese as much as we have! its amazing to here not only is everything done and dusted but they have made an amazing $120 approx uplift in equity!!! not a small sum to be sneezed at.  Well done Terry and the whole crew (even Michael the tiler) for doing an awesome job and for sharing the whole thing with all of us in the Pizza & Property cr...

Having restrictions on getting into more properties is something I'm sure we can all relate to. It doesn't matter if it's not having enough deposit, or the banks not wanting to lend you any more. This man, Wayne Jessup, didn't just wait around for the perfect conditions, Wayne built a RENT to RENT portfolio generating over $20,000 per month in cash flow.  We talk with Wayne about: - How to best ap...

What is actually happening in the rental market in the local Brisbane area? This week we speak with Nick Kruger principal of Your Haven Realty to get an in the moment look at: - What dwelling types are faring the best? - What can you do as an investor to make your property potentially rent for more than the competition? - How are days on market and vacancies looking in our current real estate mark...

Buying into a strata complex may not be for everyone, but if you have ever thought about investing into a building it's INCREDIBLY important you understand what it is you're buying into. Bryan Phillips Director of Tideways OC Management talks us through what to look for in a well managed building and what to look out for in a building you might want to think long and hard about before investing yo...

Are we heading towards the Biggest boom in Aussie history? If we are then what does that look like and what would make anyone think it is about to happen? one man who understands a thing or two about property investing Mr Simon Pressley thinks that is exactly what's about to happen.  We talk about:  - When was the previous biggest boom Australians had ever seen? - Has COVID-19 played a part in cre...

It's probably safe to say we all know controlling the budget is absolutely key to a profitable renovation, Michelle Lewis takes this to a whole new level, Buying well below market, sourcing trades and incredibly cost effective and time efficient ways and only spending where is necessary.  Michelle is passionate about building wealth to bring back more family time, but also helping women realise th...

After hearing a pool fence horry story through a friend in the real estate industry, I wanted to bring some light to what I feel is a constantly forgotten subject "Pool Fence Compliance" this is definitely not the fun cool and sexy side to property investing but if you have a pool in your property it's possible an extremely important topic. Every state and territory is going to be slightly differe...

You Asked for it! Now it's here, the 25 steps to subdivide a block with Peter Koulizos. Peter and I talk through a hypothetical development site to show his step by step process of cutting a block of land from one into three separate Torrens title allotments. Stay tuned for the link to the written 25 step guide attachment... We talk about: - What you need to watch out for in terms of water and sew...

We love chatting with Terry to see how his project is coming together, this check in we find out the details of how it's all been running, what issues have come up and how they've been handled.  If this id your first time hearing about Terrys project take a Listen to the intro of the episodes below where we had our first few check ins with Terry  Check in 1: https://open.spotify.com/episode/27cClW...