We’ve spent the week in America, folks — so we thought we’d better bring you back a bit of gold! Sitting by a pool in Dallas (yep), we scored some local intel on the American Property Market —like what’s making Texas a HOT place for investing — with today’s guest, Jeff Goins. So who’s Jeff? A full-time investor of “Tax Deeds” in Texas which includes house “flipping”, he has a builder’s license and a sponge of property knowledge. What’s most eye-opening though, is his local insight into how Ameri...
Nov 02, 2017•1 hr 3 min
As promised, here’s our LIVE PODCAST from the Sydney Property Buyers Expo on the weekend! So if you missed our nail-biting chat with Greg Dickason , Chief Technology Officer at Corelogic , we have you covered! First things first: CoreLogic is THE number 1 data provider in the world for property-related insights. Interested in learning the latest from a mouth that’s had a taste of what’s in store? Us too. What can you expect? Who is CoreLogic providing its data to? (and why it REALLY matters!) Wh...
Oct 26, 2017•36 min
Alright, folks, let’s get down to the “nitty gritty”… how long will it take you to achieve a passive income? What about the limits of your age? Are you too old? Are you too young? Do you have an outstanding HECS debt to pay off? In today’s Q&A, we will be discussing all of these and plenty of other tricky questions too. Oh, AND we have two GUEST LISTENERS featuring on our podcast — don’t forget: you can feature on The Couch too if you leave us a voicemail message ! A handful of dot points fo...
Oct 19, 2017•39 min
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, 2017•54 min
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, 2017•1 hr 5 min
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, 2017•1 hr 9 min
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, 2017•1 hr 6 min
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, 2017•57 min
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, 2017•39 min
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, 2017•43 min
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, 2017•55 min
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, 2017•57 min
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, 2017•1 hr 1 min
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, 2017•54 min
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, 2017•1 hr 3 min
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, 2017•52 min
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, 2017•1 hr 1 min
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, 2017•47 min
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, 2017•54 min
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, 2017•54 min
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, 2017•32 min
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, 2017•31 min
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, 2017•46 min
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 textbook 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: Wha...
Jul 06, 2017•50 min
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, 2017•47 min
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, 2017•32 min
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, 2017•30 min
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, 2017•53 min
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, 2017•55 min
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, 2017•51 min
