Episodes

What will your children and grand-children lifestyle look like? Pedestrian & bike paradise or urban jungles and skyscrapers?

• Will the work from home movement change what consumers look for in property now?

• Is the current urban plan of our cities good enough?

• Are developers pushing on with pre-covid plans or are they changing their direction?

• Will road redevelopments and expansion be possible in the near future?

• Will people go back to the office at the end of Covid?

Bernard Gallagher, Owner and Regional Director of Ethos Urban. Ethos Urban has played an instrumental role in developing Barangaroo, Central Park and the recent redevelopment of Darling Harbour. Bernard and our host discuss the future of Australian cities, and pitting it against how Covid has impacted the rate at which our cities adapt to the new needs and wants of consumers.

Where does financial planner and author Paul Benson stand on the property vs shares debate?

• Income replacement or wealth creation?

• How are people finding their 'true purpose' through work?

• How to deal with the temptation of trying to time investments?

• Why ethical and sustainable investing will be the future.

• Should you invest a lump sum in shares or property?

In today's episode, we have Paul Benson, Principal of Guidance Financial Services and published author of Financial Autonomy. Paul has been working as a financial planner for the last 20 years, working with a wide spectrum of clients, helping them gain ‘financial autonomy’.

Own or planning to purchase property? Which way have you set up your structure?

• Should you buy a holiday home?

• Can you get CGT exemption if you upgrade and move into a new home?

• How to maximise your CGT exemption with the help of the 6 year rule.

• How to best structure your property portfolio.

Kym is the CEO of Nitschke Nancarrow Accounts which has over 1200 business and individual clients, he is a qualified financial advisor, chartered accountant and is a licensed builder.

How does a region or suburb have a greater capital growth than its neighbouring areas? What makes the difference?

• Where will people be more inclined to move to; a sea or tree change?

• Connecting the correlation between LMI data and Kent’s ‘danger zones’

• Why quality houses in great locations always outperform units in the same area.

• What unit markets are currently in danger?

In this Suburb Trends update, Kent and the team talk shop on the number one cardinal rule of the Australian property market; that there is not just one market. This being said why is that? What makes property different?

Why do certain suburbs attract particular demographics, and what are urban designers doing to create ‘utopian communities’.

• How do new suburbs and towns on the fringes develop?

• What drives people to move out to these fringe communities?

• How will Covid change the social dynamics of cities?

• What can we learn from alternative community models from around the world?

Lucinda Hartley Co-Founder of Neighbourlytics, discusses these complex questions with our hosts. Lucinda and her co-founder Jessica Christian-Franks have led the global conversation on urban innovation, holding positions with global bodies the UN and the World Bank.

Helping agents become transparent and more trustworthy, and how can vendors find them.

• What are sales agents doing to win you over?

• Why do some agents fly and some flop when it comes to communication?

• What should vendors be doing to get the most out of their sale?

• How many sales agents should you speak to before finding the right fit?

Tanja Lee started off as a vendor looking for their perfect agent, and now is one of the leading leadership development coaches in the real estate industry, coaching some of the top agents in the nation.

Breaking down the negative impact of government grants and consumers being sold into the myth that all property performs well over time.

• How have spending habits changed during Covid?

• Are grants all that they are chalked up to be?

• Are developers increasing their margins once new grants come out?

• Breaking down the myth that once you're in the property market you can ride it out.

Martin North jumps into the deep end in this episode mythbusting common misconceptions of property, highlighting the terrible deals and properties people get sold into everyday.

If you ever wanted a sitcom on living in strata property, look no further than Hyperbole Towers!

• Taking a few laughs out of strata living.

• What happens when strata managers lend swipe keys to security guards?

• What do you do if you have a horrible neighbour in your complex?

• How comedy and stories of strata living can paint the full picture of the lifestyle.

Welcoming back Jimmy Thomson from the infamous and hilarious episode 106 where he regaled our hosts on nightmare neighbours, unbelievable stories and insane experiences. In this episode Warren Coleman joins the chat on their brand new ‘podcom’ called Hyperbole Towers.

What areas are we seeing the greatest growth and what suburbs have had the greatest losses.

• Why do certain suburbs always outperform the market?

• What suburbs are cold?

• Properties that vendors have a hard time selling?

• How low are the current listings?

• What is the current vacancy rate?

In this edition of Suburb Trends monthly report the team and Kent Lardner crack the lid on what suburbs are only now feeling the effects of Covid, including what areas that are seeing a massive influx of consumer demand.

Has early covid contingency benefited the economy and will data rights and open banking improve your ability to get better finance?

• Should people be taking out their superannuation?

• How will early super withdrawal impact the economy?

• What items did people spend their super on?

• Will open banking benefit you?

• Will the future of banking charge rates based on the consumers repayment reliability?

We welcome Simon Bligh, CEO of illion. illion is the leading independent provider of data and analytics to the largest industries in Australia and New Zealand, providing insights into the spending behaviour through leveraging their data on over 25 million consumers.

Understanding buyer preference through Domain search data, what are people looking for?

• How many properties were on the market at a discount?

• What makes sellers decide to price edit?

• How many properties are sold through private treaty?

• Why the Australian market is made up of thousands of micro markets.

In this episode we interview Dr Nicola Powell, Senior Research Analyst at Domain, she is at the helm of Domain’s data reports and has appeared in various mainstream media outlets.

Find out how PEXA’s has transformed the property transaction throughout the settlement process.

• What is PEXA and how do they improve standards in the property transaction?

• How PEXA has reduced the amount of delayed settlements across Australia.

• Which states will receive PEXA support next?

• Has PEXA benefited from COVID in streamlining their product?

PEXA has been instrumental in delivering new tech solutions to the outdated property market by connecting all the stakeholders in the transaction.

How will the need for additional rooms and more living space, alter what people sell and what they will buy in the future.

• Will we feel the effects of COVID for years to come?

• What will happen to the inner cities around Australia?

• Will big business continue to have CBD based offices or will they adapt?

• What is the trend in businesses working from home?

Welcoming back Director of Research of The Demographics Group, Simon Kuestenmacher. Simon was a guest back in Episode 40 where he outlined the potential problems of Australia's aging population and the current population growth.

Find out why the Canberra market is like any other, and discover why it’s suburbs continue to break local price records

• Why Canberra's property market continues to smash suburb price records during COVID?

• How have developers shifted in offloading the oversupply of their new builds?

• The weird quirks and caveats of owning property in Canberra?

• What happens with the suburbs that border NSW and ACT?

Every week we chat about Australia's major property markets, but how does Canberra compare and what is it’s growth prospects? In this episode we speak with Canberran Claire Corby, one of the only buyers agents to work exclusively in Canberra.

Which suburbs will thrive post COVID and which will be passed over?

• How has COVID devastated statistically ‘younger areas’.

• Why does increasing unemployment in certain sectors not impact the whole economy?

• Why do hours worked data better represent unemployment?

• Which suburbs are hot and which are cold?

The 2nd edition of the new monthly report with Kent Lardner of Suburb Trends

The debate continues on which is better? Shares, property or both?

• What books should people read to develop better investing habits?

• How to choose a good fund?

• What makes a great fund manager?

• How can we change how we look at money and investing?

In this episode we talk with Owen Raszkiewicz founder of Rask Australia, which provides a member only investment advice platform, ASX new and investment insights through articles, podcasts and education.

During the beginning of COVID which properties and areas had the greatest loss made sales

• How did low interest rates and mortgage pauses slow the need for homeowners to sell?

• Has Covid benefited the property market?

• What is the correlation between the unemployment rate and the arrears rate?

• Why do new properties and units have the greatest share of loss made sales?

We can’t get enough of Corelogic's Head of Residential Research and author of Corelogic's recent Pain and Gain Report, Eliza Owen. The quarterly Pain and Gain report details how different properties, regions and cities are performing, including how many have made a profit or loss since the property last transacted.

The market has shifted back to the owner occupier property, but what does the current vacancy rates indicate about the investor demographic?

• What types of investor stock was most affected by COVID?

• What is the current vacancy rate?

• The current legislation around rent relief.

• What can landlords do now to make their property more tenable?

In this episode Lisa highlights how the investor market has been adversely affected by COVID, and how the mainstream media has been trying to ring bells announcing the myth that the property market is on the verge of ‘collapse’.

Covid-19 has brought the focus back to the home front and what people are searching for in their new home/upgrade.

• Which keyword has soared in search data?

• What makes a great suburb?

• Will those suburbs most livable stay the most livable in the future?

• Has there been a spike in transactions?’

Alice Stolz is the Managing Editor at Domain and host of Domain's new podcast ‘Property Unpacked’.

Understanding the complex nature of how the social fabric has been altered post Covid-19 and consumers behaviours

• The similarities between Covid-19 and the past economic crisis.

• What will potentially happen to the social fabric post Covid?

• Which generations will adopt new practices and who would be adverse to change?

• How will zero migration impact property prices?

Welcoming back social researcher and demographer, Mark McCrindle, Founder and Principal of McCrindle, a prominent research house that uses data and trends to create strategies for leading brands and businesses.