Property Hub - Investment Insights & Inspiration

Do you really have a property investment strategy? Or is it just a short term plan, or a bunch of property tactics? In this episode, Bushy Martin sets you up for strategy success. A list of goals, initiatives and budgets isn't enough. A good strategy does much more than urge us forward toward a finite goal. It acknowledges your challenges and provides an approach to overcoming them. It defines you...

The saying ‘buyer beware’ was never more significant than today, strangely enough, as we are seeing more help for buyers. The flood of inexperienced buyers agents who rely on little more than desktop valuations is making it difficult for unsuspecting investors to find experienced and professional buyers agents.  We thought, rather than talk to an industry professional who has a vested interest, it...

Is the Perth property party over? Ashleigh Goodchild reveals her insights. In recent times, it feels like we’re constantly hearing about property going gangbusters in Perth and throughout Western Australia. Following a decade in the doldrums, property values in Perth soared nearly 26% from the COVID trough to the July 2022 peak, and following a minimal correction, property prices in WA have contin...

According to Todd Hadley PRD Managing Director, each property market across Australia is currently moving at various speeds and directions regardless of whether an area is located closer to a capital city or is regional.   This is pointed out in PRD’s latest   Australian Economic and Property Report.  Todd says…“we are seeing different markets recording varying levels of price growth, while simult...

Ashleigh Goodchild believes you can question your way to success in property, business and life.  It is one of the keys to accelerated learning as you adapt to our AI world, evolve your career or business, step into property investing and create the life you really want. Our guest, Ashleigh Goodchild, is a great example of this. She is very comfortable in her skin and not afraid to put herself out...

There have been constant calls for interest rates to be reduced as a result of cost of living increases and housing affordability concerns.   So when a property professional suggests interest rates need to go up before they go down, we sit up and listen.  We do that today with Robert Mandanici from Paddington Realty in WA.   50 years ago the majority of Aussie families lived in 3 bedroom 1 living...

With almost everyone feeling the financial squeeze, including many property investors, 'super cash flow properties' are changing the game, says Mark Baker.  On top of rapidly rising costs, Australia has a major shortage of affordable rental housing making life tough for tenants. What if you could avoid the financial strain and stress of single tenant negatively geared home and instead secure or cr...

Victoria has suffered the lowest growth rates across the country since the onset of covid, with median prices declining 4.4% in Melbourne and 7.6% in the regions since the peak in early 2022, according to the latest Core Logic figures. Jacob Caine, head of the real Estate Institute of Victoria paints a different picture of the market there and says “ The fundamentals and long term growth drivers f...

After struggling with the grind of running multiple businesses, Mark Baker discovered a unique cashflow property investment strategy that would change his life forever. Many property investors are also juggling work and/or demanding businesses, which create time pressures and also a big cashflow crunch. In fact, cash flow affordability might is the key make or break factor for most Australian prop...

Successful people make success look easy.  How many times have you heard - or in fact said yourself of a successful person - he or she is lucky.  Luck has little, if anything, to do with success.   Azeem Rahman is an experienced self made investor who has amassed a $3M property portfolio over the last 8 years on the strength of his own determination, grit and perseverance.  Hear Azeem tell Bushy a...

Want to know how to not work forever? Start investing and build the life you love. Ana Kresina explains how.  We introduced Ana in the previous episode; she is an author, podcaster, financial educator, speaker, a lover of cheese, and a parent, who works in the financial technology sector as Pearler’s Head of Product and Community. After revealing her story last week, now Ana gives you the practica...

Anyone going in search of a single, simple solution to the housing crisis will soon learn there is no such thing.  Owen Davis is the founder of Leifield Property Group and he believes we should look at the activities of the suggested perpetrators to find the solution. Emma Slape - a Director of the Real estate Institute of South Australia reveals that the number of enquiries from buyers to purchas...

To stop or reduce work might feel like a pipe dream right now. But Ana Kresina brings you hope for a future of freedom. In this episode we're going to be covering some of the most popular and essential themes on Get Invested - how to build wealth by increasing your income, reducing your costs and investing the difference to create passive residual income that will build the lifestyle you want. Ana...

John Pidgeon is an active and successful long term investor, property coach, buyers agent and host of his own podcast called This Is Property.  John shares some powerful insights in the show this week as he sums up the sad plight of many hard working Aussie investors who fail to realise that just working hard and putting money into super is not going to be enough when they retire. Then Bushy is jo...

Retirement is a flawed life goal, says James Millard. James' concept of 'Sufficient Funds' is a more effective alternative and will bring you into financial freedom sooner. And we're going to talk more about that today. As you know from last week's episode, James is recognised as one of Australia’s most relatable money guys and as a financial advisor he helps you make the life changing shift from...

Last week Antonia Mercorella from the REIQ gave us a great insight into the state of one of the country’s hottest investment markets right now – Queensland.   Despite the rosy outlook, the changes on multiple fronts in Queensland could be conspiring to increase costs while restricting control for many investors.  So is it time to take stock and consider investing elsewhere?   Today we consider the...

Are you worried about running out of money, today or even in retirement? James Millard helps you maintain sufficient funds. We've all had moments where a payment has bounced, a direct debit was dishonoured or, even worse, an unexpected emergency has led us to a point of 'insufficient funds'.  Not only does it impact our lifestyle, it also limits our capacity to invest and build wealth. James is go...

Queensland's property market, once trailing behind its East Coast counterparts, has surged post-pandemic with a 60% increase in values. Brisbane now boasts the second highest median home value in the country for the first time in nearly 30 years. Despite negative press on affordability and rental issues, the market shows resilience. Today Bushy explores Queensland's property future with Antonia Me...

What is the true impact of migration on Australia, not just our property market but also our economy and way of life? Aman Sethi explains. We met Aman last week who revealed his personal journey as the child of immigrant parents, sharing his understanding of the challenges and triumphs faced by migrants in their pursuit of a better life. Despite facing all the struggles that migrant families conte...

Ben Handler is a Buyers Agent who decided, some years ago, to share his vast knowledge and train those wanting to become buyers agents.  Since then he has trained over 4,000 agents through his Buyers Agent Institute and in so doing has created an enormous shift in how buyers find and secure a property.  Also today, Bushy catches up with Mark Macduffie from Downsizer.com to find out how he is givin...

Aman Sethi overcame migrant challenges to to build wealth in Australia, now he's helping others in the same situation.  For Aman, it all starts with mindset. Mindset is the starting point for unlocking and accelerating new skills and opportunities. Deeply rooted in his personal journey as the child of immigrant parents, Aman possesses a profound understanding of the challenges and triumphs faced b...

20 year property veteran Sky Taylor joins Bushy to explain why you should treat your investment property as an investment.  Also this week award winning property consultant Brett Wheatland details how to find properties that will have the highest tenant appeal. Subscribe for free to Realty Talk on the Property Hub channel, join our community and get more insights here : https://linktr.ee/propertyh...

A key way to make property investment more affordable is to tap into the power of depreciation, says Tyron Hyde.  Are you worried about how you can continue to afford to hold on to your investment property given the continuous increasing cost of just about everything? The one thing that makes or breaks the sustainability of an investor's journey is cashflow affordability.  Affordability is the one...

It hurts every day a property remains vacant and every tenant changeover adds cost and increases revenue loss.  Full time property investor, rooming house specialist and owner of Rooming House Expert, Mark Baker, joins Bushy to discuss maximising rental income and reducing turnover.  Then we are joined by Moni Mazzeo who introduces a different approach to improving rental success by taking an inte...

The number of buyer enquiries to purchase property interstate has jumped significantly but where they are looking to buy has also changed dramatically.  Just under a quarter of all enquiries are coming from buyers based in a different state to the one they were looking to buy in over the last 12 months.  That figure has jumped by 35% year on year.  In this week's show, Emma Slape, Real Estate Inst...