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The Property Couch

Bryce Holdaway & Ben Kingsleythepropertycouch.com.au

Each week, Bryce Holdaway and Ben Kingsley bring their conversational style to The Property Couch, where they educate their community on the fundamentals of property, finance, and money management. They delve into the latest industry data, trends, and best practices, making complex concepts understandable and engaging.

Since its launch in February 2015, The Property Couch has become Australia’s premier property investing podcast. Bryce and Ben draw on over 25 years of personal investing experience and extensive work with thousands of clients through Empower Wealth, their multi-award-winning national property and wealth advisory firm.

With a consistent ranking in the Top 5 of the Investing Category charts and an impressive 4.8-star rating from more than 2,300 reviews on Apple Podcasts, The Property Couch is essential for anyone serious about building a passive income through property investing.

As best-selling authors of two books, Bryce and Ben don’t hold back in sharing their deep knowledge, personal experiences, and lessons learned including both their successes and their mistakes. Known for their fun banter, they make learning about these topics enjoyable and insightful.

But the podcast isn’t just about Bryce and Ben. They love learning from others too, and regularly bring in top minds from Australia and around the world to discuss topics like property, economics, lending, money management, investing mindsets, high performance, and habit and behaviour building.

Their true mission? To help you achieve financial peace and live your ‘Lifestyle By Design.’ They’re so dedicated to your success that they’ve even developed Moorr, a free money management app designed to help you set and achieve your goals, manage your finances, oversee property investments, and track wealth creation over time.

As Ben often says when wrapping up each episode, “Knowledge is empowering, but ONLY if you act on it.”

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Episodes

141 | Success Leaves Clues: How Do You Compare to Australia’s Most Sophisticated Investors?

Alright, folks, Episode 141 has landed! And today Ben is sliding on his “PIPA” Chairman top hat. Why? Because PIPA’s Annual Investor Sentiment Survey is out! And the boys are going through these factual insights so you can see what the most successful investors are doing, thinking and learning, right now!! So what’s PIPA? If you’re a recent Coucher, you might not know that the Property Investment Professionals of Australia (PIPA) is the peak association for businesses that operate in the propert...

Oct 12, 201754 min

Facebook Live Bonus Episode – Q&A on Property Hotspots Webinar

It’s here folks! Sorry, it took some time. We thought we’ll organise it a little bit before broadcasting it to the rest of our fellow vouchers. So here’s the recording of the Facebook Live last week! This session is mainly based on the Questions we’ve received from our webinar, Property Hotspots and How To Find Them . Enjoy! LISTEN TO THE FIRST 20 EPISODES HERE >> MOORR MONEY MANAGEMENT APP: 👉 Apple: https://apple.co/3ioICGW 👉 Google Play: https://bit.ly/3OT86bW 👉 Web platform: https://...

Oct 11, 20171 hr 5 min

140 | Everything you need to know about Styling for Profit - Chat with Sara and Amy Chamberlain from The Real Estate Stylist

It’s about time we talk about selling a property! So today, we lift the standard with not only one but two Property Stylists extraordinaire to share with us everything we need to know about styling for profit. Want to add $50,000 – $300,000 to your property? Sara and Amy Chamberlain, owners of the successful styling company The Real Estate Stylist (TRES) , are here to explain how it’s done. Originally from Wagga Wagga, these sisters are making a serious return on investment for their clients, tr...

Oct 05, 20171 hr 9 min

139 | Pete Wargent, Multimillionaire at Age 33: How did he do it?

It’s podcast day, yay! Today we have a special guest on Indeed — Pete Wargent! Aside from achieving financial freedom at AGE 33 (yep) through property investing primarily in London and Sydney, Pete is now one of Australia’s leading experts on market trends, co-founder of AllenWargent property buyers, a 4-time published author, a Buyers Agent and a blogger — http://petewargent.blogspot.com.au/ Originally from the UK and now living in Brisbane, Pete has a worldly insight into investing, finance, a...

Sep 28, 20171 hr 6 min

138 | Alan Kohler: The Guest Who Changed the Industry as a Financial Journalist!

Alright, folks! Joining us on the couch today is Alan Kohler , the renowned Australian financial and newspaper journalist! Aside from being the founder of The Constant Investor and co-host of The Money Café podcast , Alan has a wealth of knowledge and experience in the financial sector. To give you an idea, Alan was the Editor of The Age and CEO of Australian Independent Business Media Pty Ltd. Currently, he’s a Finance Columnist for The Australian , the Financial Reporter for ABC News and the h...

Sep 21, 201757 min

137 | Buyers Agents’ Secret to Winning a Negotiation This Spring

Spring has sprung! And it’s the selling season, indeed. Properties look more beautiful — the lawn is luscious, the sun’s out, and there are flowers all around … these all tickle your emotions, charming a lot of buyers to come out and bid. And pay an emotional price too — a lot more than the property is worth! So how do you make sure you knock out all the competition AND still buy the property at a price you can afford? In this episode, the boys explain the 7 tips to Buying in Spring to make sure...

Sep 14, 201739 min

136 | Four Corners and Q&A – The Property Bubble, Being Burnt and Afraid to Invest: What Not to Do

Well folks, after Awe-Guest, it seems like a long time since our last Q&A! So a lot of you have been writing to us wanting to know our view on Four Corners’ recent episode on property investment in Australia, Betting on the House . Now, there was a bit of doom and gloom in this episode and we want to talk about it. To do this, we’re going to answer YOUR hard questions about property investment — the difficulties, the consequences of poor asset selection, bad property investment advice, the f...

Sep 07, 201743 min

135 | Andrew Bogut - Why is this NBA Superstar Still Adamant on Investing in Property?

Andrew Bogut, NBA superstar & Australia’s greatest basketball player, is here! Alright, folks — we promised an international sports star to end our month of Awe-Guest — and we are really excited to announce that he’s here! Yep, let’s not hide it. We are entirely pumped for this show! Because not only is Andrew a basketball legend — he won the NBA championship with the Golden State Warriors in 2014 – 2015, playing with THE biggest names and best athletes in the world, and even represented Aus...

Aug 31, 201755 min

134 | From The Screaming Jets to Rock-tioneer! How this 90’s Music Icon went from Playing the Drums to Building a Property Portfolio - Chat with Craig “Rosie” Rosevear

Alright folks: what does the drummer from The Screaming Jets and property investment have in common? Craig “Rosie” Rosevear! That’s right—on The Couch today, the man behind the drums of one of Australia’s legendary bands explains how he used his royalties to break into the property market and transformed his touring days into a growing property portfolio and now, a charismatic, auctioning career! Yep. Aside from being the Founder of Rock Your Future and the owner of Rosie’s School of Rock —where...

Aug 29, 201757 min

133 | Housing Affordability: Understanding the Causes, not just the Symptoms – Chat with Chris O’Dell, Manager of Research and Insights, NSW’s Department of Planning and Environment

Today we’re in for a special treat with a Government figure—who just so happens to be directly involved with the rules about what we build, planning the future story of housing in Sydney and all of NSW! Yep, that’s right. We’ve gone to the top! We have Chris O’Dell —the man from Research and Insights in NSW’s Department of Planning and Environment on the show. Chris manages a very brainy team who provides analysis to support our strategic, OFFICIAL decisions. He absolutely loves his data, is ext...

Aug 24, 20171 hr 1 min

132 | Josh and Jenna from The Block! New things for this Bickering Couple and their Tiny House Movement in Australia

We’re very excited to announce that Josh & Jenna —who, let’s face it, ditched their surnames after becoming household names on the 2011 series of The Block—have landed, with their 8-week-old bubba, Freddie, on the Couch! The husband and wife duo, also featuring on The Block’s All-Star Series and Reno Rumble, are founders of Melbourne-based interior bicker design . With Josh a qualified plumber and Jenna currently sharing her knowledge and passion at Design School , they are here to chat abou...

Aug 22, 201754 min

131 | How Did He Turn $4,500 Into A Multi-Million Dollar Property Portfolio? - Chat with Victor Kumar, Partner at Right Property Group

What would you do if you arrived from Fiji to Australia with only $4,500 to your name and little else? Well, that’s exactly what today’s guest, Victor Kumar , Partner at Right Property Group , and his wife did in 1997. And their story is truly extraordinary! Within 1 and a half years in Australia, the radiographers—thanks to reading The Wealthy Barber and Building Wealth Through Investment Property , learning as much as they could about property investment, lots of hard work coupled with a steel...

Aug 16, 20171 hr 3 min

130 | Stage to Savvy: How this Singer/Actor Built her Own Impressive Portfolio and Without Guaranteed Work - Chat with Rachel Cole

Awe-Guest, for us, is about bringing in experts from all walks of life and we are proud to say that we’ve finally got Rachel Cole on the show! Welcome, Rach!! Rach is an accomplished performer, singer and actor and is currently understudying Miss Honey, Mrs Wormwood and Mrs Phelps on Matilda The Musical (yes, that one), after understudying Nessa Rose in the Australasian tour of WICKED. A young property investor, Rach loves property research, and spreadsheet and is very savvy with her spending. R...

Aug 15, 201752 min

129 | Robots in Real Estate: Friend or Foe? - Chat with Nigel Dalton, Chief Inventor at REA Group

Disclaimer: This is Beyond Mind-blowing. Think technology. Think crazy. Think sci-fi films, actually. Yep. This podcast is futuristic—except, all this crazy tech stuff is happening in the future arriving sooner than you think! To tell us all about it (and to bewilder us), Nigel Dalton —one with the coolest title going around— Chief Inventor at realestate.com.au (REA) —literally awes the couch. With 25+ years of experience in IT, Nigel co-founded Luna Tractor , which is responsible for discoverin...

Aug 10, 20171 hr 1 min

128 | How a Country Boy Went From a Butcher to Property Success - Chat with Duncan McPherson, Director of Nelson Alexander

That’s right guys. Duncan McPherson , Director at Nelson Alexander (also a successful property consultant, auctioneer, founder of Nelson Alexander Charitable Foundation and a property investor himself) started his roots in a small country town as, well, a butcher. Yep—his story is absolutely a white-butcher’s-coat to wealth-building-creation! Duncan is a family man, centred on honest and committed customer service, who has built his riches on sharing what he knows and paying it forward, giving a...

Aug 08, 201747 min

127 | What’s Happening In The Property Market? – Chat with Nerida Conisbee, Chief Economist at REA Group

Happy AWE-GUEST! Yep, the month of “Awe-guest” — it’s a little bit witty isn’t it — means only awesome things because we are releasing 2 EPISODES A WEEK WITH THE MOST AWESOME GUESTS for the entire month! To kick start Awe-guest, we are stoked to announce Nerida Conisbee , Chief Economist at REA Group is here for the second time — you can listen to her first episode on which market to invest in 2017 here . With more than 20 years of experience in property research throughout Asia Pacific, Nerida ...

Aug 03, 201754 min

126 | Q & A-ccounting with Frank Azzopardi—Tax Deduction, Capital Gains Tax, Land Tax and Aussie Expats

Alright, folks! It’s Q & “Accounting” time! Yep, on the couch today we’re talking all things tax! Here to help us wade through the grey area is Frank Azzopardi from our friends at YK Partners . If the name sounds familiar, it’s because Frank joined us back in Episode 48 ! So, we’ve received a couch-load of questions about tax lately, and quite a few of you have these questions because you’ve “temporarily departed” overseas—you’re Aussie Expats working in another country, but investing in pro...

Jul 27, 201754 min

125 (Part 2) | Everything You Need To Know About Picking The Next Hotspot – Chat with Jeremy Sheppard

Did we deliver on the gold in PART ONE ? Jeremy Sheppard, also the Director of Research at Select Residential Property, definitely has a serious knack for data collection and analysis, doesn’t he? Chasing the tail of Part One, PART TWO unpacks the remaining 3 of the 8 fundamental indicators that affect demand and supply. The last 3 are: Vendor Discount Rental Yield Renters versus owner-occupiers Yep. Did we warn you that this episode could be quite overwhelming? Stay with us. It’s been no secret...

Jul 20, 201732 min

125 (Part 1) | Everything You Need To Know About Picking The Next Hotspot – Chat with Jeremy Sheppard

We’ve been building this one up a bit, haven’t we? But TODAY is the day we’ve got Jeremy Sheppard on the couch! Jeremy—himself an investor with 16 properties in his own portfolio—explains his years of passion in data collection, analysis and research into the levels of supply and demand (across every market and 15,000 suburbs in Australia). This passion pioneered the DSR Formula and the inception of DSRData.com.au . How it works (nutshell): Supply and demand are the only things that affect the f...

Jul 20, 201731 min

124 | Q&A - 20 minutes Saved 20 Years of Regret, Investing in Airbnb, Property Spruikers, Buying Cash Flow Only and the Cost of Commission

Alright, folks, it’s that time again … you ask, and the boys answer! After receiving a tabletop full of new topics, we’ve taken our que this week behind an anonymously-sent testimonial. Turns out an earlier podcast Why You Shouldn’t Invest in Property saved our listener from being “sold a lemon by a spruiker”! Yep. Unfortunately, guys, the property spruikers are still out there, so Bryce & Ben will be answering similar questions on the red flags to look out for, like: How to sniff out the so...

Jul 13, 201746 min

123 | What is Owner-Occupier Appeal and How to Use It When Buying Your Next Investment?

Welcome to Episode 123! We’ve been looking forward to unpacking this one all week! Guess what? The boys are going to walk you through THE perfect text-book investment property. As in the very one that ticks ALL the owner-occupier appeal boxes. The one that’s going to land you the biggest capital growth payday! So from the suburb right down to the shelves to store your stuff … B1 & B2 will explain to you what asset you should definitely be buying. The golden tips discussed (in detail!) are: W...

Jul 06, 201750 min

122 | Q&A - A Transitioning Market, Money, Habits, Tax Deductions and What It’s Really Costing You

It’s that time again … a few questions from you and a few answers from the boys! Oh, before we give you a tiny tease about today’s podcast … just a huge shout out for being SO supportive about our technical glitch last week. Our inbox was flooded with all of your emails and concerns—please know that our hearts burst (with love) and we missed you all too! We really did. But we’re back and better than ever this week. (With an epic guest next Thursday we’ve got The Stig running the server like a pr...

Jun 29, 201747 min

121 (Part 2) | Does The Guy With The Most Money Always Win At Auction? - Chat with Damien Cooley

Part two with Damien Cooley , Australia’s most respected auctioneer and the face of Cooley Auctions , On top of his Australian record—see part 1— he has an uncountable number of industry trophies tucked under that orange tie—winning the 2015 & 2013 Auctioneer of the Year at the Real Estate Business Awards for example—and has performed auctions on other reality TV series, including The Renovators , Under The Hammer , Hot Auctions and Selling Houses Australia . Oh, and you might have heard thi...

Jun 27, 201732 min

121 (Part 1) | Does The Guy With The Most Money Always Win At Auction? - Chat with Damien Cooley

We’re pretty chuffed to announce that Damien Cooley , one of Australia’s most respected auctioneers and the face of Cooley Auctions , has landed a spot on the couch! For those not in the know: Damien holds the Australian record for the highest sale of a single dwelling home sold at auction—no easy feat at $23 Million—and is the most booked auctioneer on The Block , having appeared on the show nine times. In fact, we were SO chuffed to have Damien on the couch that Bryce and Ben just didn’t want ...

Jun 27, 201730 min

120 | Secret To Making Money While You Sleep - Chat with Tom Panos

We’ve finally got Tom Panos on the show! For those who are unfamiliar with Tom, he’s the founder of the Real Estate Gym, 5 am Club, co-host of the Million Dollar Agent podcast, a weekly commentator on SKY News Business, Channel 602, Real Estate Advertising Director for News Corp and is one of Sydney’s leading Real Estate Auctioneers as well as being a sought-after keynote for the Real Estate industry. On top of that, he’s also an active property investor and has been investing for the past 25 ye...

Jun 16, 201753 min

119 | The Power of Compounding

That is basically what we are talking about in today’s podcast as inspired by two of our listeners who wrote in. Now, rewind a few episodes, and you’ll find the boys quoting Albert Einstein's famous words, “Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it earns it… he who doesn’t… pays it.” And today’s focus is all about getting the foundation RIGHT, finding the SWEET spot for your money management habits and understanding WHAT delayed gratification is all about. One of...

Jun 08, 201755 min

118 | Create Wealth Through Your Assets, Not Your Pay Packet - Chat with Craig Stephens, Managing Director of Jas Stephens

Today’s podcast title is a direct quote from our special guest, Craig Stephens ! As the Managing Director of Jas Stephens , with a history spanning over 90 years and four generations and the leading real estate agency in Melbourne’s Inner West, Craig is also an active investor himself who started building his portfolio back in the late 1980s. He started off as a bond trader and worked with Merrill Lynch in London before coming back to Melbourne to take over the family’s business. With his experi...

Jun 01, 201751 min

117 | Everything You Need To Know About Depreciation Changes - Chat with Bradley Beer, CEO of BMT Tax Depreciation

We’ve got Bradley Beer , CEO of BMT Tax Depreciation on the podcast today! Now, some of you might remember Bradley back in Episode 10 where we talked about what is a tax depreciation schedule, how it works and if all property investors should have one done. For today’s episode, however, we will be relating back to Episode 115 where we chat about the impact of the recently released Federal Budget on property investors, focusing specifically on the depreciation changes. So here are the topics that...

May 25, 201745 min

116 | Q&A - How Guarantor Loans Actually Work, Fixing a Joint Venture, Investing in WA and More

It’s Q&A Time! Now, we answered a few questions in the last episode but realised we wouldn’t be able to respond to all of your questions at this rate, so we’ll be doing a Facebook Live very soon. Stay tuned for that! On another note, there’s an exciting announcement at the end of this episode so make sure you stick around. And here are the Free Resources mentioned in today’s podcast: Property Research Site | LocationScore – Register your interest here Kids Savings Calculator – Download here ...

May 18, 201748 min

115 | What Does The Federal Budget Mean To The Property Market?

What a week! Apologies for the podcast’s downtown earlier this week and thank you to those of you who wrote in to us. We had a system update and things didn’t quite work out as we wanted them to be. That aside, the 2017 Federal Budget has been released just a couple of days ago. So let’s talk about that. There were a few proposals relating to the affordability issue and a couple more that aims at the property investors pool. But overall, this was not an overly exciting budget. It was a conservat...

May 11, 201743 min
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