Property Investment Podcast Network

In this very special episode, self-proclaimed data nerds Arjun Paliwal and Leigh Paliwal welcome fellow nerd Simon Kuestenmacher to pick his brain about how the different demographic trends are reshaping the market. Arjun, head of research at InvestorKit, and Leigh, director of Hills Finance, sit down with the director and co-founder of The Demographics Group to peruse how the aspirations, lifesty...

Sometimes all it takes is a chance encounter to start you on your property investing journey. Ryan O'Neill, who by day deals with commercial real estate as head of property and procurement at an international logistics firm, talks about how meeting his wife – and discovering a book she had on property investing – led him to consider how residential investments could set them up for the future. Rya...

Property markets are cooling. Does this spell good or bad news for buy-and-hold investors? Smart Property Investment's Phil Tarrant sits down with Buyers Agency Australia's Dragan Dimovski to run through the first assets bought by Dragan to build his portfolio and separate the good deals from the bad ones. Dragan reminisces on how seeing a property investor driving a Ferrari set the ball rolling f...

Why stop with just one or two investment properties? Many investors with portfolios of that size will tell you it's because they've run out of money, but the truth behind that is they may have bought the wrong property and have hit a lending ceiling.  Matthew Lewison, chief executive of OpenCorp, and Michael Beresford, OpenCorp's director of investment services, look at ways you can increase your...

Founded and headed by real estate industry veteran and expert Sam Gordon, Australian Property Scout is an investment buyers agency service that specialises in off-market, below-market and value-add purchasing. The agency prides itself in focusing on deals that provide both cash flow and equity increases from the day the investment is purchased, which allows clients to grow their portfolios in a re...

A low property price isn't the only way to judge a location's affordability, as this economist knows all too well. The chief economist at PRD, Dr Diaswati Mardiasmo, lifts a lid on what factors should really be taken into consideration when defining a region as "affordable". Unpacking the changing definition of "regional" living, Diaswati shares her methodology and reasoning behind her latest repo...

What does it really take to jump onto the property ladder at a young age? Smart Property Investment's Phil Tarrant sits down with journalist and property investor Katie Silver, who shares the two things she did to save up a deposit for her first two-bedroom investment property in Sydney bought at age 25, despite her parents turning down her request to be her guarantors for the mortgage. Katie also...

Smart Property Investment gives you a behind-the-scenes look at the 2022-23 federal budget. Grace Ormsby is joined by Momentum Media mortgages news editor Sarah Simpkins for a very special budget update. The pair unpack the biggest headlines across property, real estate, and finance and what they could mean for investors as we move closer towards a federal election. In this episode, you will hear:...

Now that the federal budget has been announced, hosts Phil Tarrant and Scott O'Neill discuss its impact on the commercial property industry in the latest episode of Inside Commercial Property with Rethink Investing. In this episode, the duo list down the winners and losers of the federal budget and explain how inflation can be a major theme for commercial property investors in the next five years....

After years in the property investment game, this investor learned that the best way to reach the top is to think and invest like the 1 per cent earners in Australia – and he has the numbers to prove that it works. When we last talked to Jack Henderson in 2018, his portfolio was valued at just $2.5 million. In this update, Smart Property Investment's Phil Tarrant sits down with the director of Hen...

If investment decisions were to be based on global and local uncertainties, as well as gloom-and-doom headlines, how come investment properties are still selling like hotcakes? Smart Property Investment's Phil Tarrant sits down with Lachlan Vidler, owner of Atlas Property Group and author of the book A Military Guide to Property Investing , to cut through the noise amplified at the macro level and...

Over the years, property investors have, in one way or another, been on the receiving end of wrong advice fuelled by strong opinions in their investment journey. How, then, can you discern what is good advice or opinion from bad advice and opinion Hosts Phil Tarrant, Steve Waters and Victor Kumar believe that when making investment decisions, you must scrutinise your sources of information. The tr...

While risk is an immutable part of investing, this investor stands by a tried-and-tested strategy of doing research hand-in-hand with hard work to unearth property gems not just in Queensland, but in any real estate market.  Smart Property Investment's Phil Tarrant sits down with the founder and director of the Srama Group Matt Srama, who gives us an insider look at the moving parts of the Sunshin...

InvestorKit is composed of industry-leading and award-winning researchers and buyer's agents. They specialise in helping property investors scale, grow and diversify their investment portfolio using residential and commercial property. In this episode of Property Showcase, InvestorKit's director and head of research Arjun Paliwal joins host Tom Gilmore to discuss the first, second, and third "move...

Since the onset of COVID-19 in 2020, this investor and his wife have supercharged their property portfolio to great success. Smart Property Investment's Grace Ormsby sits down with Bharat Patel, a full-time IT manager, to unpack his 12-year journey to a 22-property portfolio. A whopping 12 of those properties have been purchased since the onset of the pandemic – and there's more on the way. Bharat...

On the second episode of The Property Nerds for 2022, self-proclaimed data nerds Arjun Paliwal and Leigh Paliwal deep dive into housing and rental supply data to uncover the truth behind headlines that state the housing market is slowing down. Arjun, head of research at InvestorKit, and Leigh, director of Hills Finance, analyse current and historical data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (...

Spring is still a few months away, but this lending expert advises deep cleaning and getting your finances in order pronto if you want a smooth-sailing refinancing journey – especially if your portfolio is on the big side. Smart Property Investment's Phil Tarrant sits down with Finni mortgage broker Rebecca Carlson to give us a look under the hood of refinancing big-scale property portfolios. As a...

Banks have been speculating a drop in house prices due to rising rates, while other experts predict otherwise. Who's telling the truth? Smart Property Investment's Phil Tarrant sits down with InvestorKit head of research Arjun Paliwal to focus on the four red flags every investor needs to have on their investing radar. To help investors see beyond a thousand speculations floating in the market, Ar...

With the flood catastrophe across the east coast being labelled as one of the most extreme disasters in Australia's history, here's a survival guide on how property investors and their portfolios can weather out natural calamities. In this episode, Smart Property Investment's Phil Tarrant sits down with Paul Glossop, director of Pure Property Investment, to put a magnifying glass on the unfolding...

The Smart Property Investment editorial team unpacks the latest Australian news and what it means for the property market in 2022. Grace Ormsby is joined by journalist Juliet Helmke to reflect on the first two months of the year – and highlight the biggest points of contention for property right now: floods and the economy. Following on from the Reserve Bank of Australia's March cash rate call, th...

On the latest episode of Inside Commercial Property with Rethink Investing, hosts Phil Tarrant and Scott O'Neill go through an in-depth pulse check of commercial property markets now that the government is doing its best to bring workers back to the CBDs. In this episode, the pair give listeners a peek at the current opportunities and challenges for investors as fear-mongers try to ramp up worst-c...

Smart Property Investment's Grace Ormsby catches up with Real Estate Institute of South Australia (REISA) chief executive Barry Money to uncover the three trends that helped South Australia see a net positive migration for the first time in thirty years and how it propelled the property market to see great yield and capital growth. The duo dissects industry figures that are attracting buyers and i...

In this episode of The Smart Property Investment Show, host Grace Ormsby welcomes back Aishwarya Kesarwani. The pair discuss Aishwarya's last appearance on the show in September 2020 , the sale of his first property and how he utilised this sale to propel him into his second property. He also discusses his strategy to successfully pick which properties to purchase, sharing how the mistakes he made...

With an avalanche of information drowning investors on a daily basis, how will you know if what you're consuming is accurate or being manipulated to achieve certain outcomes? In this episode of Investing Insights with Right Property Group, Steve Waters, Victor Kumar, and Phil Tarrant tackle ways to determine relevant information for investors and the proper context for weighing in market predictio...

Experts have been preaching that the property market boom in 2021 was an anomaly, with four capital cities seeing massive growth of 30 per cent over 12 months, but this will likely not make a repeat this year. What, then, will define the market in 2022? Smart Property Investment's Phil Tarrant sits down with OpenCorp chief executive Matthew Lewison and director of investment services Michael Beres...