Episodes

We answer your questions about how to retire on property and building your own home.

What to look for in the land before you buy? Can you retire with just investment properties? Is buying and building your own home a good idea? How do you know if you’re buying the top end of a suburb? High strata cost, what are you paying for? Is there a new incentive to buy sustainable properties?

Work Club founder discusses the future of remote working, and shared office spaces.

• What will work look like in 12 months in comparison to the last 12 months?

• Will we end up going back to the old work routine?

• What is pro-working and will it grow?

• Will attitudes in Melbourne be exacerbated due to extended lockdown?

• What is happening across the globe in terms of work patterns and who can we learn from?

Soren Trampedach is the founder, chairman and CEO of Work Club. Work Club is an established boutique solution to accommodate for modern day work space and place challenges. In recent times Work Club has shifted to providing consultancy on workplace optimisation to industry leaders such as Google, Deloitte and Facebook.

Economists anticipated an inevitable property crash, but where is it?

• Why hasn’t the property market crashed?

• Where has listening been hit the hardest?

• How have Brisbane properties performed over the Covid period?

• Is the property market slowing down during the holiday period?

We can’t get enough of the superb Eliza Owen, welcoming her back for the fourth time. Eliza is Core Logic’s Head of Residential Research and author of various Core Logic reports and articles, most notably their Pain or Gain report.

When the dust settles what will Australia be left with in the next year?

• What will be the legacy of 2020?

• How has Australia relied on China to keep our economy afloat?

• What can Australia do to pivot our primary exports?

• How long will Australia keep its border closed?

Welcoming back Warren Hogan from episode 75. Warren is the former Chief Economist of ANZ and is currently the Industry Professor at UTS and Chief Economic Advisor of The Executive Connection. Warren has also appeared in the media on multiple occasions.

As this year comes to an end, what does it bring for 2021?

• Will investors come back into the market?

• What allowed an uptick in consumers taking out mortgages?

• How Labour losing the election had a massive impact on the property market.

• What are banks trying to accomplish with high advertising budgets and refinance wars?

• Have the grants for new homeowners been beneficial or detrimental?

Seeing with 2020 vision, we look back in hindsight on the property market, and how it performed, changed and adapted to market conditions? Moreover, we look at how 2020 has laid the foundations for the years to come.

Renown futurologist chats the decade ahead, what will be expected and how you can be prepared.

• How will the world transition through to the next leap of automation and I?

• Will remote working open up competition for Australian jobs?

• Is the physical home more important now than ever?

• What will the workforce look like in 2030?

Rocky Scopelliti is a director of Optus and Community First Credit Union, and works in advisory capacities to a variety of companies including Fortune 100 corporations.

Getting mortgage free how can you do it and what should you be doing to get there?

• Why do people get confused by what you own versus what you own?

• How to borrow safely?

• What are some tips on being frugal?

• What are the most powerful debt free enablers?

Welcoming esteemed long-term money commentator and financial literacy advocate Nicole Pedersen-McKinnon, Nicole is former editor of AFR’s Smart Investor Magazine and has recently published her book How to Get Mortgage-Free Like Me which reveals how Australians are shaving years off their loan term and becoming debt free.

What makes Perth different to other capital cities and will make a comeback?

• Why has Perth performed so poorly compared to other capital cities?

• What parts of Perth have stayed strong and grown in value?

• Did the top end of the market struggle to move the high quality properties?

• Where is the growth in the Perth market coming from?

Damian is the founder and managing director of Momentum Wealth and has served on the REIWA Council since 2011 and was elected president of the institute in 2018.

What will happen if stamp duty is abolished and how have Australian cities performed this year.

• How will the abolishment of stamp duty work?

• Will flippers return to the market if they can opt out of stamp duty?

• How can property buyers maximise their return when renovating?

• How different states will calculate stamp duty and land tax differently?

• How have the capital cities performed from one another?

With the restructuring of stamp duty and opt in/opt out programs be a success? In addition to the stamp duty conversation Kent and the team showcase capital cities performance during this year; which has the brightest outlook for the future?

Accessing super for home buyers, is this their golden ticket or retirement nightmare?

• What has the biggest impact on retirement - owning home or superannuation?

• What is not working for the system currently?

• How have first home buyers struggled in the past 30 years?

• Why should people stop and think before taking out super?

Brendan is the Household Finance Program Director at the Grattan institute, he has focused on a wide variety of topics including tax reform, housing and superannuation.

Saul Eslake gives his 2 cents on the current state and the future of the Australian economy

• What's most likely going to happen nationally and globally?

• Are we on the cusp of structural change?

• How are capital city housing prices going?

• How Sydney survived through Covid comparison to Melbourne?

Saul Eslake has worked in Australian financial markets for over 25 years, including several chief economist roles in Mcintosh, ANZ and Bank of America Merrill Lynch, and has worked in an advisory capacity with the federal government.

Are your Strata by-laws in urgent need of an overhaul?

• What this means for strata owners and tenants

• What pets are actually allowed and in what circumstances can they be banned?

• What are the limits of an executive corporation's reach?

• Does this mean there are some aspects of conduct you can't control?

Amanda Farmer, Strata Lawyer, is a go-to-expert in "strata world" with over 15 years experience as a strata lawyer. Amanda joins us again to clear up what is going on in Strata properties when it comes to owning pets.

How have university towns held up during COVID and will there be a shift in what properties sell?

• How have the surrounding university suburbs been impacted by Covid?

• What 'property fads' should investors and home buyers stay away from?

• How have Victorian suburbs been impacted by the drop in overseas students with 7 out of the 20 top universities residing in VIC?

• How many units are hitting the market and is there likely to be another fire sale of poor cheap assets?

In this edition of Suburbs Trends, Kent gives the scoop on the current state of university towns and feeder suburbs.

The tell all on the Brisbane market, what is hot and what is not?

• How has the Brisbane property market performed compared to Melbourne and Sydney?

• How has the work from home movement shifted more people to Brisbane?

• Why shouldn't you ever rely on the vendor's agent and how you can be misled?

• What is driving the Brisbane property market?

Meighan is a buyers agent and principal of Property Pursuit and co-founded Home Buyer Academy alongside Veronica.

We answer your questions on the property market and how should you get started?

In our fourth Q&A host special, Veronica and Chris dive deep into questions that you have sent in, covering topics on the difference between growth and yield, how would they change their property strategy if they had their current knowledge when they started out and what will the market hold post Covid; will it boom or will it bust?

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.