Working his way up the ranks from Bank Teller to Manager, Arjun Paliwal gained a lot of the investment property knowledge he needed from Commonwealth Bank Australia. After taking the leap of faith and quitting his job, Paliwal dove head first into the world of property investing and before he knew it, had built an incredible portfolio. Join us in this episode of Property Investory, as we discuss Paliwal’s unplanned path to success, how he was able to build such an impressive portfolio at t...
Mar 10, 2025•46 min•Season 9Ep. 911
Andrew Crossley is the owner of the Australian Property Advisory Group and a best-selling author with his newest release being ‘The 100K Property Plan. Andrew Crossley has traveled all over Europe and started his property investment journey all the way in the Netherlands. He has come back to Australia and continued his success on home soil. Come with us as we delve into Andrew Crossley’s background and where he grew up and why he decided to travel to Europe for an extended period of time, ...
Mar 06, 2025•54 min•Season 9Ep. 910
As managing director of his family business Coronis Group, Andrew Coronis’ fundamentals for purchasing investment properties have provided him with the skills to succeed as a property investor and bring his father’s company to new heights. Hear from him how to have faith in your property investments and play the waiting game in the markets, why providing for the mass market will always achieve good results and why purchasing an investment property in the top end market is never a good idea. Host...
Mar 03, 2025•48 min•Season 9Ep. 909
Allen Chan, director from Zenerg Finance has been in the finance and property industry essentially since his university days. Utilising his parents equity as leverage so that he could get into the trading world, Chan has always been quite savvy with how to invest. For the most part this has led to wonderful investing outcomes, meaning that save for the time he almost lost it all by choosing to invest in options, Chan has been in more recent times, able to secure a new investment property every y...
Feb 27, 2025•45 min•Season 9Ep. 908
Despite being parents of three boys under 9, Alice and Justin Hagen have consistently grown their business since starting it in the middle of the GFC. Now with a personal portfolio of over $4.5 million and a strong boutique agency, find out how the young couple bought their first property in Brisbane, what strategies t hey employed onto their first six properties, and their lessons learned from subdivision property struggles. The couple shares their anecdotes on both their successful and failed ...
Feb 24, 2025•53 min•Season 9Ep. 907
Joining us in this episode is Alex Veljancevski, founder of Eventus Financial and winner of the Better Business Awards 2018 - Broker of the year. Raised by a family avid in finance, law and accounting, it’s no surprise that Veljancevski has always had a passion for property. Delving further into his influences and business attitudes, we’ll learn more about his busy work days and how he provides his clients with outstanding outcomes in the current property market. We’ll also be talking abou...
Feb 20, 2025•45 min•Season 9Ep. 906
Alex Dutt has had numerous successes in the property industry ever since first getting into property in the early 2000’s. With an accounting degree up his sleeve and not yet well versed in the property industry, Dutt’s life changed when he decided that property investing was the way to go. Join us in this episode of Property Investory where we talk with Alex Dutt to find out about how he got inspired to start a career in mortgage broking, property investment and real estate, how he became ...
Feb 17, 2025•52 min•Season 9Ep. 905
Coposit : a company that deals with deposits and helps make buying a property that much easier. Join its co-founder and CEO Chris Ferris in this episode, as he shares his journey from the child of hardworking immigrants to a successful entrepreneur. Selling 20-30 homes a year at 7-figure rates, Ferris is on the hustle! Teaching invaluable strategies such as the concept of ‘optioning’ and equipping listeners with the tools to navigate the complicated and expensive current market, Ferris is the pe...
Feb 13, 2025•1 hr 16 min•Season 9Ep. 904
Chris Bates is the founder of mortgage brokerage, Wealthful. Originally from Melbourne, Bates has lived what he describes as a ‘nomad’ life. At a young age, he and his family moved to Newcastle for a job opportunity. From there, he attended university in Sydney but after deciding that further study was not for him, he picked up his life and went to London before eventually settling again in Australia. In this episode, Bates will share the travelling stories that shaped his worldview, including e...
Feb 10, 2025•49 min•Season 9Ep. 903
Chi Lam is a family man who arrived in Australia as a refugee from Vietnam as a child in the 1980s. In his early years he overcame obstacles like you wouldn’t believe, and is now the director and founder of his own company as well as the primary caregiver for his two daughters. In this episode he shares all about his childhood and adolescence and explains how they helped to form the man he is today. From five-day-long boat trips and pirates to learning a new language and moving all around Sydney...
Feb 06, 2025•58 min•Season 9Ep. 902
Cate Bakos has had her fair share of ups and downs throughout her property investment journey. But what sets her apart is her ability to quickly analyse, break down, and learn from these erroneous decisions. As a recipient of Sterling Publishing’s ‘high commendation’, a finalist for Telstra’s Business Woman of the Year, and a National Winner of the Buyer’s Agent of the Year, Bakos has proved the worth of these critical lessons. In this podcast Cate Bakos and host Tyrone Shum will discuss the les...
Feb 03, 2025•37 min•Season 9Ep. 901
On this episode of Property Investory we hear from Cam McLellan, the strategic director and founding member of Property Firm OpenCorp . He outlines in detail how he created a six-figure annual income from his personal portfolio, allowing him to retire at the age of 36. He reveals the most important priority for property investment: balancing risk and highlights the step-by-step process to protect your loan capability. Plus, we learn from McLellan’s personal and business relationships of the impo...
Jan 30, 2025•39 min•Season 9Ep. 900
Meet Brian McNicol, the successful commercial property investor and CEO of buyer's agency Commercial property, who made the transition into commercial property after having 14 residential properties under his belt. These days he specialises in finding commercial property for buyers with most of his clients focused on retail office accommodation and some on industrial, helping them to purchase those properties with recession-proof tenancy or a high net return. Born and bred in Brisbane, Brian McN...
Jan 27, 2025•40 min•Season 9Ep. 899
Brendan Ansell is the managing director of a large property development company, the Velocity Property Group. Originally from South Africa, Ansell and his family moved to Australia when he was 18 years old due to some violent close calls and their financial circumstances. Inspired by his time in South Africa, Ansell wanted to make a better life for himself. From this goal, he was able to establish a successful career in developing luxurious homes. In today’s episode, we’ll hear about Ansell’s va...
Jan 23, 2025•50 min•Season 9Ep. 898
Brendan Shine is a buyer’s agent and investment consultant. His love for property has allowed him to help others acquire wealth through investing with his consultancy and buyers’ agency, Strategic Property Acquisitions. After realising he would never earn a sufficient income for himself working as a baker, Shine jumped into the world of property investment where he has now purchased six houses, four duplexes, two blocks of units and one boarding house. Join us in this episode of Property Investo...
Jan 20, 2025•1 hr 7 min•Season 9Ep. 897
If grit and determination could be personified, they would come in the form of Braydon Birch. The construction worker, buyer’s advocate, and co-director of Hirch Property Group could easily have skated through life and watched opportunities fly by, but he grabbed every one he could— and then some. Growing up disadvantaged instilled a strong sense of determination in him to overcome the obstacles he faced and achieve success, motivating him to create a better life for himself and break the cycle ...
Jan 16, 2025•36 min•Season 9Ep. 896
Belinda Smith is the director of Renovate and Real Estate, a company that has the goal to help people reach financial independence through property investing and renovations. Growing up, Smith saw a disparity between herself and her peers, so financial security was a big goal for her. Combine this goal with her love for creativity, and renovating properties was a natural career for her. In this episode, Smith will share the risky details of being a police officer in the 80s’. As well as this, sh...
Jan 13, 2025•43 min•Season 9Ep. 895
Ashish Malhotra is a buyer’s agent who arrived in Australia from India less than a decade ago. After landing here at the tail end of 2014, he bought his first Australian property sight unseen— and once his sights were set, he never looked back. With each investment performing better than the last, it’s safe to say Australia really is the lucky country. In this episode Malhotra shares stories of growing up in his clean and green city near the Pakistan border, where his childhood was never boring....
Jan 09, 2025•59 min•Season 9Ep. 894
Anthony Spagnolo is not only the principal of property advisory business Agenzia Property, he is also a qualified accountant, licensed real estate agent, builder and mortgage broker and is an active property investor and developer. Join us in this episode of Property Investory to hear how Spagnolo made the jump from accountancy to the property and development space and how he continues to gain valuable experience, as well as adding to his skillset by diving into a variety of projects. Host...
Jan 06, 2025•48 min•Season 9Ep. 893
On this episode of Property Investory we speak with Andrew David Courtney, founder of Plenitude Wealth. Coming from a place of poverty, Courtney knew he wanted a different life for his family. After studying a Masters of Commerce, he discovered that even his peers had a huge missing piece in their financial knowledge: property. Filling this gap as a mortgage broker, buyers agent and licenced financial advisor, all in one, Courtney now is equipped to help everyone get finance fit ! But his story ...
Dec 19, 2024•52 min•Season 8Ep. 892
Amir Ishak is a well-travelled property tax expert. In this episode he takes us on a journey through the Middle East and Europe. Explore the new and exciting atmosphere and lifestyle of Dubai, as Ishak explains what life and the property market is like there. He also talks fondly of his time in the UK, and the US, teaching our audience how he managed to travel with only $500. We then discuss the lowest point in his property ventures, when he lost 50% of his assets and was waking up in a pa...
Dec 16, 2024•47 min•Season 8Ep. 891
Alan Castorina is somewhat a jack of all trades. Starting off his professional career as a pilot, he flew all over Australia. He then moved to a sugar mill, and then operating machinery. Eventually he found his way to property development, and once he started he couldn't stop. He built his business from the ground up and managed to buy 10 properties in six years. Join us as he talks about his first property that he bought in Lakemba, and how he continued to build his legacy from there. We also d...
Dec 12, 2024•56 min•Season 8Ep. 890
Alex Jeloudev is many things— a dedicated social worker, husband, and now property investor as well. Keep an eye on his name as it’s one you’ll soon be hearing a lot of! Jeloudev has already made his mark on the disability and senior social work areas, and is keen to load up his plate with more of what brings him happiness. Next on his list is fulfilling his dream of entering the property investment world. In this episode Jeloudev shares why he put it off for so long, and how putting himse...
Dec 09, 2024•52 min•Season 8Ep. 889
Adam McKinnon is a geologist by day and property investor by night. As a manager of a public junior ASX company, he’s worked his way up and loves the view from where he is. After dedicating years of his life to the study of Earth sciences, he plans to keep digging for gold both literally and figuratively, searching for copper in the ground and golden property nuggets above it. In this episode we dig into his background to unearth just how geology and property aren’t so dissimilar after all. He s...
Dec 05, 2024•40 min•Season 8Ep. 888
Plunging into the property game at age 23, Collyer Property Investments Director Aidan Collyer has since then harnessed the power of positive cashflow and unlocked the benefits and the unique value that house-and-land deals bring to the table. Now with 11 years of real estate experience, he unboxes his investing know-how, reveals how he hits all the targets not only for himself but also for his clients, and shares how he tackles all the ups and downs in his own property investing journey. ...
Dec 02, 2024•47 min•Season 8Ep. 887
Winston White is a buyer's and selling agent as well as property investor who has renovated and sold at least 15 different properties on his own and helped acquire another 20 properties for a company. As part of his work, he helps people get into the property market, usually those who don't have a big deposit on hand, and helps sellers move their properties who may be struggling to sell in a downturn market. He has experience not only in project marketing wherein he helped developers move their ...
Nov 28, 2024•43 min•Season 8Ep. 886
Tuan Duong is the Principal and Founder of Duo Tax Quantity Surveyors . Having learned early in his investment career the benefits of tax depreciation in property, his passion now is to educate property investors of that same power through his business. Join us in today’s episode where I’ll be speaking to Duong about his early life and motivations, including his parents encouragement to invest in property. We learn about the Queensland investment blunder he regrets, the best advice he’s ev...
Nov 25, 2024•1 hr 3 min•Season 8Ep. 885
Steve Barlow is the general manager of Clearstate, which specialises in property development at an affordable price. Barlow always had a passion for property and became an expert in the industry after working with big names like Mirvac and Stockland. It was during his time at Stockland when he became an active investor himself, utilising the skills he had developed over many years. Join us in this episode of Property Investory to hear how Barlow’s time spent in London after graduating from...
Nov 21, 2024•50 min•Season 8Ep. 884
Simon Lacey , founder of Lacey Elite Buyers Agents , has always taken to outfitting himself with a positive outlook and thirst for a better future. That is why when he discovered his love for real estate at age 15, and his eyes were opened to the potential of wealth creation through property, he dug his heels in the ground and immediately got to work as an apprentice in his late teens and saved up. Thus, sooner than later, harnessing the power of leveraging, he purchased his very first investmen...
Nov 18, 2024•54 min•Season 8Ep. 883
Shukri Barbara is the founder and principal advisor at Property Tax Specialists, and with 100% of his reviews on Google being 5 stars, it’s safe to say he’s great at what he does! Barbara immigrated to Australia from Sudan with his family when he was 13 years old, and after studying commerce and marketing at university— and impressing his professors so much they became his clients!— he is now a CPA with over 30 years of experience in tax and accounting. Join us on this episode as we discuss his ...
Nov 14, 2024•53 min•Season 8Ep. 882
