This will be a big trend in property over the next 10 years

Retrofitted offices could be a big trend, but there’s also some big hurdles. When Covid hit and our CBDs became ghost-towns, there was a lot of talk about repurposing all those office buildings as apartments. Heck, that chatter started long before Covid. It’s bit an idea you see spit-balled around from time to time. But, […]

The $400k property that “Keeps giving”.

Matthew had received only one piece of advice from his grandfather when it comes to real estate. “Real estate is important, real estate will you get somewhere.” When Matthew found himself lost in life, he decided to chase his grandfathers admittedly vague words. Stumbling across an ad from I Love Real Estate he saw a […]

I don’t know why this works, but it does

This indicator is fairly reliable, and it suggests we’ve reached a turning point., How do you predict a turn in the property market? There’s a few things I look to: rents, mortgage finance, interest rates etc. But actually one of the most reliable indicators has been the premium property market. For whatever reason, high end […]

What happens if apartment construction collapse 73%?

The supply shortage is about to get a whole lot worse. It’s a common mistake to think of the “property market” as a distinct thing. Sometimes its useful to talk about the ‘national property market’. But there is no national market. There aren’t even capital city markets. Within cities there are suburbs marching to the […]

IT worker turns $25,000 PROFIT in 6 WEEKS

Eugene was a career IT worker his whole life, and was pretty successful at it too. So successful that he kick started his investment career and owned a whopping 20 investment properties. But despite all that, he was barely turning a profit. There was clearly a piece of the puzzle missing In comes I Love […]

T-Bomb: Why I have zero-tolerance for this

Truth Bomb Tuesday: Many people do this, but I’m not having it. Why do we engage in defeatist self-talk? There are lots of types of negative self-talk? There’s criticism, shaming, ridiculing… so many ways to hate on ourselves. It’s astounding really. But today I just wanted to look at defeatist self-talk. This is something I […]

Why investing looks easier than it is

Investing sometimes looks easy. But you need to invest and believe in yourself first. A few years ago I remember helping Anna crunch the numbers on her first project – a pretty straight forward renovation on a town house that she had got on vendor finance. “So what’s your profit at the end of the […]

Single acre “chore” transformed into $150k passive income.

A few years ago Peter and Fiona had a solid family unit and already owned a couple properties… Living the dream right? But they still woke up to work their day job every single morning. The money just wasn’t adding up. Until you realise their properties were negatively geared. Eventually they learnt how to make […]