Unemployable Property

Originally released on Unemployable Media on 24 Mar 2025. This episode has been re-released on the Unemployable Property channel as part of our dedicated property archive - bringing our best property conversations together in one place. In this eye-opening podcast, former carpet cleaner Carson and ex-machine operator Shannon reveal their remarkable journey from humble beginnings to becoming succes...

Nobody wanted this steep, tree-lined block in Upper Coomera. It went to a higher bidder, then came back with one text to the agent. Here’s how a sloping medium-density site went from a safe six-lot subdivision to a one-bedroom unit project. We also cover the council tree bond, the bushfire overlay, and the earthworks plan that turns the slope into an advantage.👉 Got runs on the board? Let's h...

Your first big development is where the lessons get expensive. A straightforward townhouse deal turned into a years-long grind when the world shut down: builders couldn’t get labour, construction costs climbed, the private loan ran past its term and holding costs stacked up every month. Here’s how a former business owner got through it, how private finance works when you don’t have serviceability,...

Originally released on Unemployable Media on 12 Aug 2025.This episode has been re-released on the Unemployable Property channel as part of our dedicated property archive - bringing our best property conversations together in one place. In this episode, we sit down with accountant and former V8 Supercar driver Ashley Walsh to break down how smart Australian property developers are structuring their...

Originally released on Unemployable Media on 6 Jan 2026.This episode has been re-released on the Unemployable Property channel as part of our dedicated property archive - bringing our best property conversations together in one place. Simon Kuestenmacher, Australia's most influential demographer, breaks down why our housing market is structurally designed to be expensive and why politicians ar...

Most Australians sign a 30-year mortgage and call it the plan. Brad Reeves looked at his, realised he’d be paying it off for decades, and decided to build his way out instead. From a corporate engineering career to running Harcourts offices across Tasmania’s Northwest Coast, Brad breaks down how he keeps the front house so the land comes for free, how joint ventures funded his growth, why he impor...

Originally released on Unemployable Media on 25 Jul 2025. This episode has been re-released on the Unemployable Property channel as part of our dedicated property archive - bringing our best property conversations together in one place. In this episode, we sit down with Mayor Tom Tate to unpack the Gold Coast’s explosive growth and what it really means for property developers. From game-changing t...

Most developers lose the luxury market the moment they start cutting costs. The margin in high-end property isn’t made on the sale price. It’s made in the supply chain, the site’s aspect, and the discipline to walk away from deals that don’t stack up. A former investment banker turned luxury developer breaks down how Capital Luxury Residences builds one-of-one homes on the Brisbane and Gold Coast...

Originally released on Unemployable Media on 24 June 2025. This episode has been re-released on the Unemployable Property channel as part of our dedicated property archive - bringing our best property conversations together in one place. Think you need to go to NAB or Commonwealth to fund your next property deal? Think again. In this episode we sit down with Chris Wright from Fincierge, a property...

Originally released on Unemployable Media on 18 Nov 2025.This episode has been re-released on the Unemployable Property channel as part of our dedicated property archive - bringing our best property conversations together in one place. This episode takes you inside the creation of one of Australia’s most expensive homes as Brad Moran breaks down the design choices, the real costs, and the lessons...

A valuation can kill your development before a single slab is poured. The bank flips straight to the number, checks it against what you paid, and decides whether your deal gets funded. Amy Bowater, Associate Director at Savills Valuations and Advisory, explains how development sites are valued from the other side of the desk. She covers how valuers find comparables when there aren't any, what marg...

Investors are pouring life savings into NDIS disability housing, chasing headline returns, only to end up with a house that sits empty and a mortgage that doesn't stop. Two of the sharpest minds in SDA property break down how spruikers exploit good intentions, why so many of these homes can't find a tenant, and the data-driven method serious investors use to avoid getting burned. 👉 Want t...

One wrong clause can cost a developer their deposit, their contract, and months of holding costs. Property lawyer Jamie Felstead breaks down the structure the ATO flags as a red flag, the due diligence clause every new developer needs, and how experienced buyers lock up land without signing a contract at all. Settlements are already failing across South East Queensland as buyers walk from deals th...

Australia has been writing the same housing report for twenty years. Another one just landed. Jess Caire from the Property Council on what is actually blocking supply: tax at every stage of a property's life, lots frozen in federal referrals, and approvals that took six months in 1979 now taking fifteen years. 👉 Got runs on the board? Let's have a chat. Apply here: https://unemployableproperty.co...

Most developers look at three termite-eaten houses on site and see a demo bill. Carson and Shannon walk Bonogin and show how one of those houses became a payment coming the other way, why softwood is the tell for what you cannot save, and where the salvage value hides. Then it is out into the acreage blocks. A farm dam that has to become an engineered sediment basin, sixty metres of untouchable cr...

Getting into a joint venture with the wrong person will cost you years. Getting into one with the right person can turn ten months into two completed developments and an affordable housing mission.  Tim and Katie brought the money and the time. Assem brought the knowledge. Their first deal was a rural block with a railway on the back fence, sold off-market before a single lot hit realestate.com. T...

Most developers rely on one thing to find deals: a real estate agent. Les Luxford stopped doing that 20 years ago and built a nine-pillar system that's moved over $2 billion in property. He walks Carson and Sharpy through exactly how it works. The letters that hit a 25% response rate. The phone tactic that pulls a price out of any vendor. The referral partner making $200k part-time. And the two Qu...

Most developers lose money before they even settle. They just don't know it yet. Jason Webster of Legend Consultants exposes the deal killers hiding in plain sight on almost every block. 👉 Want to get started in property development? Learn more here: https://www.unemployableproperty.com.au/p-ffd  👉 Interested in Third-party Funding?  Learn more here: https://unemployable.com.au/fund    👉 Intere...

One of the last big rural res blocks on the Gold Coast. Same family since 1870. Fourteen offers on the table. We weren't the highest, but our terms won it. Now Carson and Shannon are carving ten lots through a gully, a creek, and a seven metre retaining wall Council didn't want to sign off on.👉 Want to get started in property development? Learn more here: https://www.unemployableproperty.com.au/p...

Trudy was a Gold Coast nurse with two blocks of land, a big idea, and a handshake. No written JV, no feasibility, no land valuation. Then her business partner ghosted her mid-project. What happened next became a first-of-its-kind LGBTI aged care facility, a $700K payday on a single subdivision, and a full playbook on how to actually structure a JV. 👉 Want to get started in property development? L...

In 10 years baby boomers start dying out of Australia's best located suburbs. Simon Kuestenmacher says it will change property development forever. But the next decade belongs to the urban fringe, and the new budget just rewrote the rules for investors. 👉 Want to get started in property development? Learn more here: https://www.unemployableproperty.com.au/p-ffd  👉 Interested in Third-party Fundi...

Most people think property development takes millions in cash. This episode shows how the right deal, the right finance structure, and $4.2M in soft equity helped turn a development site into a serious profit engine, including one block resold from $695K to $900K. 👉 Want to get started in property development? Learn more here: https://www.unemployableproperty.com.au/p-ffd  👉 Interested in Third-...

Everyone says you can't build apartments for less than $10,000 a metre. Christie Leet is building them at $4,000. In this first episode of Housing Unplugged, the cane farmer's son behind Sherpa reveals why he reserves entire floors for first home buyers, sells 5% below market, and the one ratio that decides whether a high rise deal works. This is how affordable housing actually gets built....

70 rain days, a half-million-dollar road that gets used once a decade, and head-high unsuitable soil that nobody saw coming. This is what a 20-lot subdivision actually costs. 👉 Want to get started in property development? Learn more here: https://www.unemployableproperty.com.au/p-ffd 👉 Interested in Third-party Funding? Learn more here: https://unemployable.com.au/fund 👉 Interested in the accou...

The Gold Coast just beat every capital city in Australia for economic growth, and that is exactly why nurses and firefighters can no longer afford to live there. Deputy Mayor and Planning Chair Mark Hammel sits down for an unplugged session on the city being loved to death: 420 new residents a week, a housing deficit running at less than half what is needed, and essential workers now priced out un...