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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

264 | How $4,000 Turned into Six Properties - Chat with Joey

When he bought his first investment property, Joey D’Agata was too nervous to do his own bidding. But, flash forward four years, and he’s now self-built a high-income producing portfolio consisting of SIX properties. And, even more impressive… he’s only 26!! So folks… how on earth did Joey make this happen for himself? Especially considering the fact that when he first started saving, he was earning less than $50,000 a year and was seriously concerned that someone in their twenties wouldn’t be a...

Dec 26, 201953 min

Free Money FIT Access - Find Out How YOU Compare To Everyone Else in Australia: Brand New Feature Available Now

So… Have you ever wondered… How do you match-up financially for your age? How do you measure-up to other households like yours? How are you tracking compared to others? If you have, that’s great!! We’re thrilled to announce this new update on Money FIT which allows you to… Compare household incomes Compare household total expenditure Compare down to each expense item level i.e Your Grocery spend vs. Others Surveyed Getting excited (or nervous) about the prospects of finally get a far better idea...

Dec 20, 20197 min

263 | How A Bag of M&Ms Set The Foundation For A $120,000 Passive Income – Chat with Keno

It turns out a bag of M&Ms has the power to build a passive income… Sure, there are a few more steps to get from “A bag of M&Ms” to “A passive income”… but you can bet on the fact that it does NOT take away from today’s epic storyline! And it’s one heck of an epic storyline that involves not JUST a packet of chocolates… but also 50 cents… a half-year-long sabbatical and… wait for it…. a property portfolio consisting of only TWO INVESTMENT PROPERTIES that will deliver $120,000 passive inc...

Dec 19, 201945 min

262 | Before & After: From “Scared and Sold Everything” To Financial Peace – Chat with Gabby

“80% of winning is beginning” When Gabby first invested in property, she lost her nerve and pulled the pin early … she sold everything. And a very big reason she got rid of the lot was simple and actually pretty common — she didn’t have enough confidence that she could “weather the storms” accordingly. But then she found Money SMARTS , our simple 7-step money management system… and now Gabby’s life — as well as that of her husband and their 11 and 13-year-old kids — looks a WHOLE lot different!!...

Dec 12, 201946 min

261 | How to Hack Your Habits to Make You a Better Money Manager - Chat with James Clear

Have you ever wanted to create better habits… and have them stick for the long term… even when your willpower is gone?? If you’re like us (and practically every other human on the planet), chances are you probably have! Despite the best of intentions, at some point or other ALL of us have struggled to stick with positive routines or follow through on what we said we’d do! So, folks, imagine if right now you were about to get an easy and proven way to build good habits AND break bad ones ….. well...

Dec 05, 20191 hr

Bonusisode - The Four Critical LEVERS to Financial Peace and... a Free Book! 😊

The process of building wealth is like operating an excavator truck. http://bit.ly/35CWlOX What do we mean by that? An excavator comes with a few levers that you’ll need to push and pull to make sure that it’s doing what it’s meant to do. So in this Facebook LIVE, Bryce and Ben share four levers that you’ll need to adjust to achieve your own specific and unique end goal. And the faster you can adjust each of these levers, the quicker you’ll get to your goal. Tune in to this Facebook LIVE to lear...

Dec 03, 201910 min

RBA December 2019 - Two Big Stories from the RBA

It’s the final cut of the year folks! Did you know… for 34 months between August 2016 and May 2019, the cash rate was on hold at 1.5%? And just this year alone, we’ve got three cuts! More about that in today’s RBA Commentary. Now, what’s in store for this month’s RBA Cash Rate Decision? Here’s what Ben will be unpacking in this month’s session: What’s forecasted for the Global Economy in 2020 RBA’s Unconventional Monetary Policy – What they thought of 2019 and what they have in mind for 2020 Upd...

Dec 03, 201925 min

260 | Q&A: Picking The Right Investment Strategy and Beware: Proposed Changes to QLD Residential Tenancy Act

How do you know if you’re following the right investment strategy? Like… how long are you meant to wait until you buy the next property? And how much should you look at spending? OR what about all the variables in the mix — say, you or your partner is about to take maternity leave, or your overall aim is to leave a decent inheritance for the kids? And where do cashflow-positive properties fit in to all this? (And what even are they??) We get it folks… there’s A LOT to consider when it comes to p...

Nov 28, 201956 min

Bonusisode with Nerida - Will we ever see interest rates high again? 😥

The cash rate in Australia has never been lower and most mortgage holders are paying a lot less on their loans than they were a year ago. With banks being urged to lend more and consumers and business being urged to borrow, how likely are we to see rapid interest rate rises and will they ever get back to double digits? That’s exactly what we’re chatting about in our Facebook LIVE with Nerida Conisbee, Chief Economist for REA Group. Of course, that’s not the ONLY thing we chatted about. Here are ...

Nov 25, 201932 min

259 | Q&A: A Tax-Saving Hack For An Offset Account, The Simplest Way to Keep Track of Your Properties and How To Distinguish “Emotional Value” from “Property Value”

This Q&A session (brought to you by The Stig) features everything from the BEST benefit of an offset account that most folks don’t know about to building your own home from scratch. We tick off a few new topics and cover… A Tax-Saving Hack For An Offset Account How To Distinguish “Emotional Value” from “Property Value” Why Building a “Forever Home” Is NOT The Same Thing As Investing The Simplest Way to Keep Track of Your Properties Property Software Solutions for Existing Property Investors ...

Nov 21, 201949 min

258 | WARNING: The Unconscious Mental Triggers Property Spruikers Use To Trick You

Property investors who get seduced into Off the Plan and house and land packages are often seduced through a marketing process that targets universal, emotionally-driven mental triggers. And after heaps of folks wrote in about last week’s episode where we spoke of the perils of investing in these types of properties, we’ve decided that today we’re going to lift the lid on what exactly these mental triggers are. So people can spot the spruiker from miles away! Because there’s a VERY big differenc...

Nov 14, 201956 min

Bonusisode - 7 reasons why most investors fail...

If building a multi-million dollar property portfolio really only takes three or four properties …then why do most folk FAIL to buy one? If only three or four properties — maybe five, if you’ve got a shorter time frame — is all it takes to achieve a passive income for life, why aren’t most investors achieving their dream lifestyle and financial goals then? Why haven’t they got a successful multi-million dollar property portfolio??? Well, Ben and I nutted out these SEVEN reasons why this is so. A...

Nov 08, 201917 min

Bonusisode with Nerida - Is the oversupply in Sydney over?

A couple of weeks ago we had our regular Monthly Wrap Up with Nerida Conisbee, Chief Economist for REA Group. There are some amazing contents in this LIVE so we thought… why not share it with our community? As well as getting a “wrap” of the property market for the month of October, you’ll also get some very interesting insights into our economy (incl. where it just might go from here!) We discuss: Will the cash rate get to ZERO? Is the oversupply in Sydney over? What’s happening with “Rent Cont...

Nov 07, 201927 min

257 | The Exception To The Rule When It Comes To Off The Plan Properties & House And Land Packages

Recently , ABC’s podcast The Money ran a very poignant episode on the financial risks of unregulated property investment advice (which we highly recommend you check out – details below folks)… which revealed the pitfalls of buying Off The Plan properties and getting snagged on the end of “one-stop-shop” spruiker seminars. As well as interviewing two unlucky folks who learnt about investing in Off The Plan in the worst way possible, the episode also features a property ” salesperson” … and the lo...

Nov 07, 20191 hr 3 min

RBA November 2019 - Signs that the Economy may be on the Up?

After three cuts this year alone, will we be expecting a fourth cut? It’s the first Tuesday of the month folks which means the Reserve Bank of Australia has just released their official cash rate! And it looks like there is a bit more positivity coming into the economy! Here’s what Ben will be unpacking in this month’s session: What’s happening in the US and the Fed Reserve? Update on the US-China Trade Deal and how it’ll impact the rest of the world The IMF Global Forecast for 2020 Where is Aus...

Nov 05, 201917 min

256 | From Gold Mine To Fool’s Gold: How This Property Investor Nearly Lost It All During The WA Mining Boom! – Chat with Rick Hockey

Some investors learn things the hard way. And today’s guest Rick Hockey — property investor AND real estate agent specialising in The Pilbara region in far north Western Australia — is, unfortunately, one of these folks. In this episode, you’re about to get a completely raw look at what it was like to be INSIDE the mining boom that hung a lot of property investors out to dry. And you’re going to hear it from someone who was right in the thick of it, and did TWO things during this time… (1) INVES...

Oct 31, 20191 hr 3 min

255 | How Australia’s Best Property Investors Think, Act and Invest

Have you ever wondered how you stack up against Australia’s most astute property investors? It’s human nature to want to know how you compare against others… even more so when these folks have something in common with you… and ESPECIALLY if they possess a trait you admire AND have achieved something you yourself are aiming for! So, guess what? Today we’re unpacking what some of Australia’s best and most experienced property investors are… 1. Currently thinking 2. Currently doing 3. Currently app...

Oct 24, 201955 min

254 | NRL Star Unpacks His Money and Property Story – Chat with Matt Srama

Top athletes often have a big spike in their income over their lifetime. That is, at the top of their game they’re looking at earning some serious coin… but beyond that… their income can plummet right down, sometimes to ground zero. And things get a bit tricky if the skills they possess aren’t necessarily transferable to the workforce too! So, folks, what we want to tackle in today’s episode is this… how does a top athlete — or anyone on a fluctuating income for that matter — juggle a small wind...

Oct 17, 20191 hr 5 min

253 | Top Tips For First Home Buyers

It can be a rough ride when you’re just starting your home ownership journey — and trying to get your foot up on the property ladder is, let’s be honest… really hard! So today’s episode is all about helping our “Firstie” folks! That’s right… our very First Home Buyers!!! And we’re going Q&A style so we can stretch out the ol’ helping hand to our Firsties, and our Mums & Dads of Firsties, and haul all of them up on the ladder with us!! And if you’re scratching your head thinking, “I’m not...

Oct 10, 201941 min

252 | Property Game Changer - Knowing The Future Suburb Values Today Plus Your Money Challenges

If these two questions sound like things you wanna hear more about, then you’re about to have a lot of fun with this episode! Q1. … interested to find out the locations set to soar over the next three years?? Q2. … got questions about how to be better with your money ?? As you’ve probably figured out by now folks, these are, of course, the questions we’re answering on today’s seriously special episode!! Here’s why… not only are we addressing the main struggles that people on the coalface are dea...

Oct 03, 20191 hr 2 min

RBA October 2019 - Third Time Lucky?

It’s the first Tuesday of the month folks which means the RBA Board has met and announced the official cash rate ! So… are the 75% of economists out there correct?? … has there been a THIRD CASH RATE DROP this year? Tune in to find out more. And here’s what Ben will be unpacking in this month’s session: What has influenced RBA’s Cash Rate decision? Has the tax cut shown any impact in recent months’ data? What’s holding the economy at the moment? Will there be any Fiscal Policies from the Governm...

Oct 01, 201917 min

Bonusisode with Nerida - Maybe The Doll House Appeal? 😨👻

It’s that time again for our Monthly Wrap-Up with Nerida Conisbee, Chief Economist for REA Group! So… It’s an interesting one this month folks! Let’s cut to the chase. Here are some cut points that you might want to tune in to! 0:44 – What’s new with the US-CHINA Trade War? Is it coming to an end? 3:29 – Should you be panicking with the recent media headlines? 5:32 – How Trump’s Tweets are affecting the US Economy? 8:18 – What’s the current state of housing in Regional Australia? Are regional in...

Sep 30, 201932 min

251 | What's NOT Going To Change in Property Investing?

We all love questioning what the future holds and speculating on what’s in store for us. And, of course, investing in property is no different. But the thing is… is it helpful to put all that emphasis on the things we can’t control? See, today’s episode is all about looking through the lens of this quote by Amazon Founder and one of the richest men in the world, Jeff Bezos… “I very frequently get the question, ‘What’s going to change in the next 10 years?’ And that is a very interesting question...

Sep 26, 201950 min

250 | Roger Montgomery - Chat with Australia's Warren Buffett

Warren Buffett is probably the greatest investor in the world. And when we say “probably” we really mean…“is”. Sure, Buffett is estimated to be worth $US83 billion (not incl. the billions he’s already given away to charity)…… and, yep, he sure did make the majority of his wealth after his 50th birthday. The question is… HOW did he become a self-made billionaire???? …… Value-investing! In other words: he invested in stocks that were priced for LESS than their true worth. And he held onto them for...

Sep 19, 20191 hr 36 min

249 | Four Phases to EVERY Renovating or Building Project - Chat with Amelia Lee from Undercover Architect

Considering renovating or building your own home? If so, this is the perfect episode for you!! Here’s why… We’ve got Amelia Lee , the architect behind Undercover Architect , an award-winning online resource to teach folks how to design, build or renovate their homes. To give you an idea, she’s been in the industry for over 25 years and has solid personal experience in the trenches as a “serial renovator”! And the best part? Amelia’s on a serious mission to take the “bamboozle” out of the renovat...

Sep 12, 20191 hr 5 min

248 | Residential Tenancies Act Updates that You Need To Know - Chat with Hayley Mitchell

There are ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY-EIGHT CHANGES to Victoria’s rental laws coming into effect next year… and we think these are about to set the precedence for legislation across the entire country. This means… landlords need to be clued in on their rights and what’s going to be expected moving forward — and frankly folks… we think the pendulum has swung slightly too far, and is now quite in favour of tenants. So, what do “Residential Rental Providers” — which, by the way, is what Landlords are ab...

Sep 05, 20191 hr 21 min

RBA Sept 2019 - Is the Australian Economy REALLY that bad?

Businesses cut back as weak economy puts pressure on profits. Australia managed to survive the global recession – but all that good work has been wasted. The worst surplus ever: ‘Obsession’ rocking the Australian economy. These are just some of [...] CONTINUE READING The post RBA September 2019 – Is the Australian Economy REALLY that bad? appeared first on The Property Couch . LISTEN TO THE FIRST 20 EPISODES HERE >> MOORR MONEY MANAGEMENT APP: 👉 Apple: https://apple.co/3ioICGW 👉 Google P...

Sep 03, 201912 min

247 | How to Invest in Property When You’re Busy Raising a Family, Holding Down a Career, Have No Time or are an Investor Already

No time? But still want to invest in property? Keen to find out what strategic step you should take next? Attention! Busy folks and experienced investors… …. yes, that’s your lot down there at the back who are raising a family, holding down a career, investing in property already AND/OR simply having a lot on the go…. … this is YOUR episode! ‘Cos today is PART 2 of our tips and tailored Q&A session for each investor demographic… and today we’re tackling… Busy folks Experienced investors So, ...

Aug 29, 20191 hr 1 min

246 | Real Estate 101: Everything from Buying Your First Home to Beginner Investor Tips

Attention! First-time investors, first-home buyers and property investors needing a refresher! This episode is your official “How To Guide” — including everything you need to know about buying property… AND investing in it! We answer your questions, we tell you exactly what you need to know to avoid mistakes from the get-go, what investment makes for a good investment AND how to get onto the property ladder quicker and without the hassle! This is Episode #1 of TWO EPISODES that cover the types o...

Aug 22, 201954 min

245 | From Motor Mechanic to Selling James Packer’s House! - Chat with Michael Pallier

Some stories need to be heard to be believed! And the story we’re about to share with you is indeed one of these… ‘cos today’s guest went from being a motor mechanic to selling some of the most expensive properties across the country… yes, including… the home of Australian billionaire businessman and investor James Packer! Joining us on the Couch today is Michael Pallier , Managing Director of Sydney Sotheby’s International Realty — an elite agency that handles the sale of luxury residential hom...

Aug 15, 20191 hr 11 min
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