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While everyone was doom-scrolling about Melbourne's property market, we were buying. Nearly 100 houses in 2024. Average return: 14%. Every single one cash-flow positive after our renovation playbook.
I'm standing in the backyard of a property we settled on twelve months ago. The main house rents for $480 a week. The granny flat behind me is about to list at $370. Let me walk you through exactly wh
Someone on our team secretly recorded a Monday morning meeting. The footage shows exactly how we review suburb data, challenge each analyst's assumptions, and make buy-or-reject decisions in real time
Before I read a single line of CoreLogic data, I drive to two places. The local dog park and the main shopping strip. In 30 minutes, those two spots tell me more about a suburb than any spreadsheet.
Every election cycle, someone floats killing negative gearing. The media runs with it. Investors panic. And then nothing happens. There's a very specific historical reason for that — and it hasn't cha
This month I got asked the same question maybe fifteen times. You've got $300K-$400K sitting there. Do you split it across two deposits and expand fast, or park it in one property and spend $100K turn
If you're still telling people Melbourne property is falling, you haven't looked at the numbers since January. May 2025 alone added 0.8% to house values. That's 9.6% annualised. Let me show you where
Most investors spend five months and $110K building a granny flat. We found one already done. The numbers were better than anything we could have built ourselves.
Everyone tells you to invest in index funds. The data says shares return 9.2% versus property's 6.8%. Case closed? Not even close. Because that comparison ignores the single most important variable: l
I drove through Cranbourne last month and counted 14 active development sites within a two-kilometre radius. Dual-occupancy builds, granny flat installations, knockdown-rebuilds. The suburb has crosse
Everyone screams about Victorian land tax. I spent an entire weekend building a comparison table across all eight states and territories. The results surprised even me — and I do this for a living.
Melbourne's southeast is running hot and everyone knows it. But if your budget is under $500K, there are two regional towns one hour from the city where the numbers are even better. We've been quietly
I had coffee with a Chinese tech investor last week. He'd been in Australia for a year and was stunned: 'There's nothing productive to invest in here. Just cafes, bottle shops, and car washes.' He's r
Everyone told him to stretch for Glen Waverley at $1.8 million and cripple himself with an $8,000 monthly mortgage. Instead, he bought a house with a granny flat in the north for $950K, and the rental
You're standing at the auction, heart pounding, paddle ready. But the game was already over before you arrived. The preparation — the valuation, the agent research, the competitor analysis — that's wh
After our Carinlea deep-dive went viral, we got flooded with one question: can I subdivide in St Albans? The answer depends entirely on which street you're on, what zone it's in, and whether the block
The median super balance at retirement is $292,000. That generates $20,000 a year and runs out before you turn 80. There's a way to use your super to buy property — with leverage, reduced CGT, and zer
He walked into my office with a $5K deposit and a $6K car loan. Wanted to do rentvesting. I ran his borrowing capacity and nearly fell off my chair. That car loan — his PR celebration present — had ju
He was the smartest person in my actuarial science cohort. Six-figure salary straight out of uni. He bought a house to live in and it became the most expensive decision of his life — not because it lo
Close to La Trobe University. Near Austin Hospital. Affordable. On paper, Heidelberg West ticks boxes. In reality, one investor's experience with tenant flight, prolonged vacancy, and below-average gr
Everyone asks me to rate their favourite suburb. So I built a framework — five metrics, each scored out of 2, total out of 10. Cranbourne got an 8. Point Cook got a 4. Williamstown got a 3. The popula
St Albans gets dismissed by most investors. Too ethnic. Too rough. Too far west. I drove through with a camera and found something the data nerds miss: a pocket where $700K weatherboard houses share a
My clients were panicking. Videos everywhere saying Victoria's land tax just doubled. I sat down for 23 hours and calculated land tax across every Australian state at every price point from $100K to $
I used to rent this house. I convinced the landlord to sell it in 2017 — and she made $1.5 million by redeploying elsewhere. The guy who bought it? Seven years of negative cash flow and zero growth. T
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