Property Investment Podcast Network

Buying real estate feels like an intimidating venture, but this first-time investor learned that the best way to learn its ropes is to take it “one step at a time”.  On this episode of The Smart Property Investment Show, host Grace Ormsby is joined by Lyndsey Fall to share how she kicked off her investment journey with a property buy in Perth. She gives a behind-the-scenes look at her thought process while going through her first purchase and enumerates the things she ticked off on her checklist to ensure her successful entry in Perth’s market. Now a bonafide landlord, Lyndsey unpacks how she plans to find tenants and explains why she sees real estate investing as a never-ending learning experience. The Sydney-based investor also divulges how she plans to follow through with the planned “phases” of her investment and talks about how her goal posts in the long term.

In the latest episode of Inside Commercial Property with Rethink Investing, co-hosts Phil Tarrant and Scott O’Neill sit down with a lawyer to provide in-depth insights on how the commercial conveyancing process works. With the spring selling season kicking off and many investors set to make one of the biggest financial transactions of their lives, Sam Saad from Rethink Property Lawyers says it’s more important than ever to understand the fine print before closing a commercial property deal. He shares what checks and balances a good lawyer will do for clients during the conveyancing process and explains how the quality of legal advice throughout a transaction can make or break a commercial investment. The trio also enumerates the due diligence that investors should do throughout the buying process and discusses what red flags to watch out for when closing a commercial property deal.

The Smart Property Investment Show host Phil Tarrant is joined by Jack Henderson, founder and director of Henderson Advocacy Group, to discuss how the appetite for property has changed in a rising-rate environment and why imperfect action trumps perfect inaction when it comes to investing. The pair also share their thoughts on good investment strategies and the changes that can be implemented that can create positive cash flow before delving into positive versus negative cash flow and whether positive cash flow properties are overrated. Unpacking the characteristics that make a successful investor, they also focus on the age-old question of quality versus quantity. If you like this episode, show your support by rating us or leaving a review on Apple Podcasts and by following Smart Property Investment on social media: Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. If you would like to get in touch with our team, email editor@smartpropertyinvestment.com.au for more insights, or hear your voice on the show by recording a question below.

Dr Nicola Powell joins host Grace Ormsby on this episode of The Smart Property Investment Show to unpack the different characteristics on display during different points of the property market cycle.    Looking back over 30 years of property data, the chief of research and economics at Domain reveals why the good times tend to last longer and reach greater heights than the depths that downturns ever do, before sharing some optimistic sentiments around the upcoming spring selling season. The pair contemplate whether market cycles are set to get shorter, highlight the unique factors that have driven the latest downturn, and unpack why lower sentiment won’t wreak havoc on upcoming sales. If you like this episode, show your support by rating us or leaving a review on Apple Podcasts and by following Smart Property Investment on social media: Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. If you would like to get in touch with our team, email editor@smartpropertyinvestment.com.au for more insights, or hear your voice on the show by recording a question below.

What’s more important than headwinds is your plan to overcome them. On this episode of Investing Insights with Right Property Group, Phil Tarrant, Steve Waters and Victor Kumar discuss the Australian investing environment presently and how these added financial and geopolitical pressures are impacting investors. The trio discuss the internal factors that investors need to analyse and understand about themselves, their habits, and their motivation behind investing to ensure they can manage different market cycles.  They also touch on reactivity versus proactivity, chat about why you shouldn’t buy for ego, and reflect on how cryptocurrency has influenced the property investment market.

On this episode of The Smart Property Investment Show, host Grace Ormsby is joined by Momentum Media’s own James Mitchell to discuss his property journey and the various decisions he’s wrangled with when it comes to his home on Scotland Island on Sydney’s northern beaches. Mr Mitchell regales conversations with his mortgage broker that helped him capitalise on his financial potential to renovate his home and shares the importance of consolidating your debt. He also touches on how pausing and reflecting on his investment intentions has shaped his property journey. In this episode, you will also hear: A breakdown of the Scotland Island market The absurdity of valuations Rising rates and falling markets If you like this episode, show your support by rating us or leaving a review on Apple Podcasts and by following Smart Property Investment on social media: Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. If you would like to get in touch with our team, email editor@smartpropertyinvestment.com.au for more insights, or hear your voice on the show by recording a question below.

Queensland’s tax code is changing, and investors with properties in the state might be in for a surprise. In this episode of The Smart Property Investment Show, host Phil Tarrant sits down with Tony Greco, general manager of technical policy at the Institute of Public Accountants, to parse out everything Queensland investors should know about the forthcoming changes. Tony explains how an investor’s entire portfolio, including properties in other states, will now be taken into account when determining an investor’s annual land tax. The duo discuss some of the potential repercussions of this change, including deterring landlords from participating in the Sunshine State’s property market, and how reporting is likely to work when the changes roll out next year. Tony also walks listeners through some examples of how an investor’s tax bill might change once the amalgamation rule comes into effect. If you like this episode, show your support by rating us or leaving a review on Apple Podcasts and by following Smart Property Investment on social media: Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. If you would like to get in touch with our team, email editor@smartpropertyinvestment.com.au for more insights, or hear your voice on the show by recording a question below.

On the latest episode of The Property Nerds podcast, self-proclaimed data nerds Arjun Paliwal and Leigh Paliwal unpack the major housing market fundamentals and explain why the sky won’t fall on investors any time soon. Arjun, head of research at InvestorKit, and Leigh, director of Hills Finance, debunk the doom-and-gloom narrative parroted by the media by dissecting the different economic, financial, and social fundamentals that are keeping the market in a generally sound state. While they acknowledged that several markets had become weaker compared to last year, Arjun and Leigh provide their data-backed take on why they believe a market rebound is on the horizon in the near term and also share their predictions for market trends in the coming months. To find out more about the markets where the boom is not over yet, check out the 10 regions positioned for further growth.

Are you a loyal bank customer fed up with seeing hot new deals in the market? In this episode of The Smart Property Investment Show, director of Right Property Group Steve Waters sits down with host Phil Tarrant to discuss how investors can negotiate a better interest rate deal with their bank or lender — especially since challenging market conditions are demanding investors get ahead of the curve. Steve also shares how investors can be proactive rather than reactive to rate changes, while the pair also touch on just how much land tax Queensland investors are paying compared to the rest of Australia, before paying some attention to the latest from the Smart Property Investment property portfolio. If you like this episode, show your support by rating us or leaving a review on Apple Podcasts and by following Smart Property Investment on social media: Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. If you would like to get in touch with our team, email editor@smartpropertyinvestment.com.au for more insights, or hear your voice on the show by recording a question below.

How do you move on from a breakup? For this investor, the best way to mend a broken heart was to plunge into property investing.  In this episode, Gina Cerasiotis sits down with Grace Ormsby to talk about how the end of a relationship became the red-letter moment that helped her discover a newfound love for real estate and led to her first property purchase in Geelong.  The duo also touch on the factors that helped Gina to successfully enter the market during a period of uncertainty and unpack how she strategically grew her portfolio in the last three years. They discuss why investing in real estate remains the most viable way to achieve financial freedom.  Now with two properties under her belt and a new partner to boot, the lawyer and part-time investor also shares the direction she intends to bring her portfolio in the coming years before revealing the financial goals she hopes to achieve in her investment journey.