Episodes

Is it time to retire the great Australian dream of home ownership? Brendan Coates of Grattan Institute, joins us today to help us understand the economics behind the housing affordability crisis, government responses, inflation, and more!

Quirin Schwaighofer of MadeComfy shares his insights on how the ratio of vacancy rates and tenants shifted over the pandemic, how the Work-From-Anywhere movement boosted short term rentals, existing Airbnb restrictions in Australia, and more!

Chris O’Dell of GYDE Consulting helps us understand the ins and outs of Australia’s housing policy. We talk about how the system works, rezoning opportunities in regional areas, site acquisition, and more!

Economist Dr Cameron Murray shares his views on the current state of the market, the (im)possibility of property prices going down, limiting the migration line, his proposed Singaporean housing model, and more!

Evan Thornley joins us as we challenge property investing myths a lot of Australians believe – Is there such a thing as ‘the right timing’ in buying? Should you trust bank predictions? Should you worry about rising interest rates?

In this month’s Suburb Trends episode, we’re doing something different – Suburb karaoke! Which suburbs are performing well in May 2022? What’s happening to property prices in flood zones? Where are apartments a good investment? – Kent Lardner joins us to answer these questions and more!

Contending with the housing affordability crisis in Australia are rising inflation, soaring interest rates, and low wages growth – what exactly is at stake? Saul Eslake, one of Australia’s best-known economists, joins us as we tackle these issues

There IS a housing affordability crisis in Australia. In this episode, we’re taking a look at and debriefing the Falinski report: a Federal Government Inquiry into housing affordability and supply in Australia, conducted in the second half of 2021.

Today we’re joined by data geek Mike Mortlock of MCG Quantity Surveying to discuss the construction materials cost crisis, the current building price index, the effect of COVID on the property market, the rental loss index, and more!

In this episode, we’ve gathered data and put together a bank scorecard - which banks did a good (or foolish) job of forecasting the property market? Which ones are the most reliable? Is 2022 the year to make a property move?

As digital platforms and online portals become more sophisticated, the relationship between sellers, agents, and buyers have shifted as well… But to what degree? We are joined by Simon Hope from REA Group to help us understand the nuts and bolts of search engines, online property portals, data collection, and loads more!

Today, we’re answering real estate questions our awesome listeners sent in! What are entry level prices for the Sydney property market? How do you price property in a volatile market? How much are you losing when you overcapitalise? We cover these and more!

In this episode, Peter Koulizos of PIPA is going to help us understand the educational gap issue and its impact on the real estate market. We’ll talk about the absence of regulation when qualifying property investment advisors, accessibility of good advice, the future of the property market in Australia when it comes to education, and more!

Laura Crommelin of UNSW shares with us her findings on the research she made on building defects in strata, the truth about building defects, the design and construct contracts, and everything about the hazards that may be present in a building.

Join today’s suburb trends episode, along with our resident data geek Kent Lardner, as we cover the rise of build-to-rent properties, how it impacts mum & dad high rise investors, Kent’s Win-Loss Ratio, and heaps more!