RealtyTalk

As the nightly news and hysterical headlines continue to be dominated by doomsday real estate predictions, our anchor Bushy Martin this week sets out to demystify all of the current scaremongering.  If you want to know what’s really happening with interest rates and property prices and why, then get pen and paper ready as Bushy lays out the facts in his ‘no bull’ style and suggests what you can and need to be doing right now. RealtyTalk is your trusted voice in property investment and Australia’s most popular online property show.  RealtyTalk is brought to you by Realty, Australia’s leading search and social property distribution platform that helps investors like you beat the crowd, giving you the earliest access to property opportunities, listings, and insights. Check out Realty. RealtyTalk is hosted by top property investment expert, author, and founder of KnowHow Property, Bushy Martin. Find out how Bushy’s KnowHow team helps investors unlock freedom with finance and property here, and check out Bushy’s podcast Get Invested.  RealtyTalk is supported by BMT, a company that helps property investors save thousands of dollars each year by maximizing tax deductions from investment properties. Find out more. 

Given the incredible changes that have occurred with property values in recent times, alongside the current deluge of misleading hysterical headlines peddling property gloom and doom, it’s hard to know what is really happening. Kevin Brogan from Herron Todd White joins Bushy to pull apart the  latest HTW property report called ‘What a lazy $700k will now buy you, where?’  RealtyTalk is your trusted voice in property investment and Australia’s most popular online property show.  RealtyTalk is brought to you by Realty, Australia’s leading search and social property distribution platform that helps investors like you beat the crowd, giving you the earliest access to property opportunities, listings, and insights. Check out Realty. RealtyTalk is hosted by top property investment expert, author, and founder of KnowHow Property, Bushy Martin. Find out how Bushy’s KnowHow team helps investors unlock freedom with finance and property here, and check out Bushy’s podcast Get Invested.  RealtyTalk is supported by BMT, a company that helps property investors save thousands of dollars each year by maximizing tax deductions from investment properties. Find out more. 

Through the month of July, five of the eight capital cities saw a decline in dwelling values. However, values in Australia are 8.0% higher over the past 12 months.  Mixed messages maybe!  So this week Kevin Turner will be talking to Eliza Owens from Core Logic and we will discuss growth rates, interest rates, listing numbers, indicators like time to sell, how much sellers are discounting, and how much tenants are paying now. This will be a very revealing 30 minutes or so with Eliza …. and one of the most comprehensive microscopic looks at the property market. RealtyTalk is your trusted voice in property investment and Australia’s most popular online property show.  RealtyTalk is brought to you by Realty, Australia’s leading search and social property distribution platform that helps investors like you beat the crowd, giving you the earliest access to property opportunities, listings, and insights. Check out Realty. RealtyTalk is hosted by top property investment expert, author, and founder of KnowHow Property, Bushy Martin. Find out how Bushy’s KnowHow team helps investors unlock freedom with finance and property here, and check out Bushy’s podcast Get Invested.  RealtyTalk is supported by BMT, a company that helps property investors save thousands of dollars each year by maximizing tax deductions from investment properties. Find out more.

It was only a few months ago, as we were in the midst of a huge amount of media speculation about the possible impact and reports of on going rate increases, that Bushy Martin took the time to produce a Realty Talk show thoroughly investigating the impact of inflation and interest rates on you and I.   This week, with yet another increase in rates, we decided to repeat that entire episode in full.   Even if you watched the original show, I urge you to watch it again.    RealtyTalk is your trusted voice in property investment and Australia’s most popular online property show.  RealtyTalk is brought to you by Realty, Australia’s leading search and social property distribution platform that helps investors like you beat the crowd, giving you the earliest access to property opportunities, listings, and insights. Check out Realty. RealtyTalk is hosted by top property investment expert, author, and founder of KnowHow Property, Bushy Martin. Find out how Bushy’s KnowHow team helps investors unlock freedom with finance and property here, and check out Bushy’s podcast Get Invested.  RealtyTalk is supported by BMT, a company that helps property investors save thousands of dollars each year by maximizing tax deductions from investment properties. Find out more.

Most regional areas across Australia were already seeing an internal migration surge pre-pandemic; however, we saw a second surge over the past two years, along with rising property prices and capital growth rates far exceeding many capital cities. In 2020 alone, 43,000 Australians relocated from capital cities to regional areas. Despite the national property market showing signs of slowing, led by Sydney and Melbourne, and many speculating the regional movement trend is over, Arjun Paliwal from InvestorKit disagrees.  He joins us to share five markets across the country where the regional boom is set to continue and will see stronger capital growth in the coming years. RealtyTalk is your trusted voice in property investment and Australia’s most popular online property show.  RealtyTalk is brought to you by Realty, Australia’s leading search and social property distribution platform that helps investors like you beat the crowd, giving you the earliest access to property opportunities, listings, and insights. Check out Realty. RealtyTalk is hosted by top property investment expert, author, and founder of KnowHow Property, Bushy Martin. Find out how Bushy’s KnowHow team helps investors unlock freedom with finance and property here, and check out Bushy’s podcast Get Invested.  RealtyTalk is supported by BMT, a company that helps property investors save thousands of dollars each year by maximizing tax deductions from investment properties. Find out more.

As the covid stimulated property honeymoon comes to a close, property aficionados are left wondering what are the risks, what do I need to do differently and how can we improve our cash flow? so this week’s show gives you some timely answers. We kick things off with Steve Palise from Palise Property who joins us again to reveal common commercial property risks. Belinda Smith from Renovate & Real Estate is also back, to reveal her best renovation strategy for 2022. And our host Bushy Martin from Know How Property Finance closes the show by opening investors' eyes to a technique that will substantially improve their cash flow.  RealtyTalk is your trusted voice in property investment and Australia’s most popular online property show.  RealtyTalk is brought to you by Realty, Australia’s leading search and social property distribution platform that helps investors like you beat the crowd, giving you the earliest access to property opportunities, listings, and insights. Check out Realty. RealtyTalk is hosted by top property investment expert, author, and founder of KnowHow Property, Bushy Martin. Find out how Bushy’s KnowHow team helps investors unlock freedom with finance and property here, and check out Bushy’s podcast Get Invested.  RealtyTalk is supported by BMT, a company that helps property investors save thousands of dollars each year by maximizing tax deductions from investment properties. Find out more. 

Are you asking ‘when is the right time to buy a property?’ This week’s show helps you answer this vexing question from a number of angles. Steve Palise kicks things off by looking at when a commercial property is right and wrong for you. Lloyd Edge then answers the question ‘Is now the time to invest in residential property based on his new book ‘Buy Now. As property values soften in some areas, it may be the time to consider more active ways to create equity, so Belinda Smith joins us to reveal what makes a successful renovator. And to close out the show, our host Bushy Martin opens your eyes to a rare window of opportunities for property buyers.  Realty Talk is your trusted voice in property investment and Australia’s most popular online property show.  Realty Talk is brought to you by Realty, Australia’s leading search and social property distribution platform that helps investors like you beat the crowd, giving you the earliest access to property opportunities, listings, and insights. Check out Realty. Realty Talk is hosted by top property investment expert, author, and founder of KnowHow Property, Bushy Martin. Find out how Bushy’s KnowHow team helps investors unlock freedom with finance and property here, and check out Bushy’s podcast Get Invested.  Realty Talk is supported by BMT, a company that helps property investors save thousands of dollars each year by maximizing tax deductions from investment properties. Find out more. 

On the back of the second most significant housing boom in Australia’s history, the old chestnut of housing unaffordability has dominated media headlines. First home buyers, in particular, have all but given up on their Australian Dream of home ownership given the plethora of new stories that have been full of the 10-15 years needed to save the massive deposits and make the increasingly huge repayments required to buy capital city homes. But do the scare campaigns match reality, and where can first home buyers afford to secure their first home? Given the myths that continue to be perpetrated on housing affordability, we’ve decided to dedicate a special show to put this issue to bed once and for all, by doing a deep dive on the recent Bright Starters Report, where Canstar has partnered with Hotspotting to reveal the reality versus the rhetoric. And co-author Terry Ryder joins us to break it all down and bring an eye-opening balance to the argument.     RealtyTalk is your trusted voice in property investment and Australia’s most popular online property show.  RealtyTalk is brought to you by Realty, Australia’s leading search and social property distribution platform that helps investors like you beat the crowd, giving you the earliest access to property opportunities, listings, and insights. Check out Realty. RealtyTalk is hosted by top property investment expert, author, and founder of KnowHow Property, Bushy Martin. Find out how Bushy’s KnowHow team helps investors unlock freedom with finance and property here, and check out Bushy’s podcast Get Invested.  RealtyTalk is supported by BMT, a company that helps property investors save thousands of dollars each year by maximizing tax deductions from investment properties. Find out more. 

As commercial property values have increased in recent times, rental yields have compressed. Scott O’Neill from Rethink Investing joins us to discuss the impacts, the winners and losers and where the commercial opportunities will be moving forward. How can you combine tangible national data with intangible local knowledge to achieve the best property outcomes?  Warwick Brookes from LongView buyers advocates joins us to reveal the science and the art. If you listen to the headlines and nightly news you’d think that the property is headed for a crash. But does the doom and gloom line up with reality?To balance the books, Terry Ryder from Hotspotting unpacks the property facts versus the false fiction. RealtyTalk is your trusted voice in property investment and Australia’s most popular online property show.  RealtyTalk is brought to you by Realty, Australia’s leading search and social property distribution platform that helps investors like you beat the crowd, giving you the earliest access to property opportunities, listings, and insights. Check out Realty. RealtyTalk is hosted by top property investment expert, author, and founder of KnowHow Property, Bushy Martin. Find out how Bushy’s KnowHow team helps investors unlock freedom with finance and property here, and check out Bushy’s podcast Get Invested.  RealtyTalk is supported by BMT, a company that helps property investors save thousands of dollars each year by maximizing tax deductions from investment properties. Find out more. 

What’s the story with inflation and interest rates? Where’s it all heading, what does it mean to you, and what do you need to be doing about it? This week our host Bushy Martin from Know How Property Finance breaks with tradition to deliver a special episode where he gives you the facts to balance the mainstream media’s fiction on inflation and interest rates so that you can dispel the fear and make better-informed decisions. RealtyTalk is your trusted voice in property investment and Australia’s most popular online property show.  RealtyTalk is brought to you by Realty, Australia’s leading search and social property distribution platform that helps investors like you beat the crowd, giving you the earliest access to property opportunities, listings, and insights. Check out Realty. RealtyTalk is hosted by top property investment expert, author, and founder of KnowHow Property, Bushy Martin. Find out how Bushy’s KnowHow team helps investors unlock freedom with finance and property here, and check out Bushy’s podcast Get Invested.  RealtyTalk is supported by BMT, a company that helps property investors save thousands of dollars each year by maximizing tax deductions from investment properties. Find out more. 

As property markets around the country begin to soften with rate rises, the mindset will separate successful investors from the rest. To kick off the show and unpack the key ingredients, we’re joined by Jane Slack-Smith from Your Property Success. In the age of faster, bigger, smarter…. real estate dinosaurs are headed for extinction if they don’t embrace and adopt the massive opportunities that proptech creates. To discuss the benefits of disruption, Thom Richards from Managed App leads the charge. What's stopping you from buying property now?  You will always find excuses why the time is never right -  but is this appropriate? The author of Buy Now, Lloyd Edge from Aus Property Professionals, wakes us up to the opportunities of taking action in any market.As interest costs rise, self-managing your rental property can save you money and increase your returns.  The founder of the Rentbetter DIY platform, Jeremy Goldschmidt, joins us to explore the benefits. RealtyTalk is your trusted voice in property investment and Australia’s most popular online property show.  RealtyTalk is brought to you by Realty, Australia’s leading search and social property distribution platform that helps investors like you beat the crowd, giving you the earliest access to property opportunities, listings, and insights. Check out Realty. RealtyTalk is hosted by top property investment expert, author, and founder of KnowHow Property, Bushy Martin. Find out how Bushy’s KnowHow team helps investors unlock freedom with finance and property here, and check out Bushy’s podcast Get Invested.  RealtyTalk is supported by BMT, a company that helps property investors save thousands of dollars each year by maximizing tax deductions from investment properties. Find out more.

As the dust settles on the frantic political arena, housing was a defining issue of the Federal Election and the Labor party’s win brings with it a raft of policy measures designed to address the property market’s biggest issues.   So we have devoted this show to a special post-election summary.  Bushy and Kevin talk to Tim Lawless from Core Logic who has authored an informative paper on what a Federal Labor Government means for housing affordability and the Australian Property Market. Take this opportunity to pause, take a breath and hear what Tim Lawless thinks about Labor’s key initiatives, interest rates, the markets likely to be in favour of the new policies, regional markets, and cap city futures, first home buyer prospects, housing accessibility vs affordability, social housing and so much more.

This week’s show has a strong interest rate theme in response to a continued focus on rising rates. Will the property market crash as rates rise? Show favorite Terry Ryder from Hotspotting returns to balance the books in response to continued media scaremongering on the impact of interest rate increases on property values.  As property markets around the country return to normal, what are the golden rules for buying good property well? Buyers Agent Warwick Brookes from LongView joins us to reveal what you need to look for.   And to conclude the show, leading commercial buyers agent Scott O’Neill from Rethink Investing discusses the impact of rising interest rates on commercial property investing. RealtyTalk is your trusted voice in property investment and Australia’s most popular online property show.  RealtyTalk is brought to you by Realty, Australia’s leading search and social property distribution platform that helps investors like you beat the crowd, giving you the earliest access to property opportunities, listings, and insights. Check out Realty. RealtyTalk is hosted by top property investment expert, author, and founder of KnowHow Property, Bushy Martin. Find out how Bushy’s KnowHow team helps investors unlock freedom with finance and property here, and check out Bushy’s podcast Get Invested.  RealtyTalk is supported by BMT, a company that helps property investors save thousands of dollars each year by maximizing tax deductions from investment properties. Find out more. 

Returning to normal after our 500th Show celebrations, this week’s show has a strong property management flavor. To kick things off, Jeremy Goldschmidt from Rentbetter joins us to reveal an innovative DIY property management platform that can help the over 500K landlord investors who choose to self-manage their properties. With homeownership rates declining to record lows as housing costs and values rise, the growing housing deposit hurdle is preventing many from getting on the property ladder.   New industry disruptor Coposit is solving this and CEO Chris Ferris joins us for Part 2 of our feature to reveal the details.  One of the biggest time-consuming headaches and cash flow inhibitors for landlords and property managers is trust account administration.   The innovative Managed App has solved this by creating a PayPal for property platform.   We hear about this game-changer from co-founder Thom Richards. To round out the show, Bushy concludes our property management series by giving you all the questions you need to ask before engaging a property manager. RealtyTalk is your trusted voice in property investment and Australia’s most popular online property show.  RealtyTalk is brought to you by Realty, Australia’s leading search and social property distribution platform that helps investors like you beat the crowd, giving you the earliest access to property opportunities, listings, and insights. Check out Realty. RealtyTalk is hosted by top property investment expert, author, and founder of KnowHow Property, Bushy Martin. Find out how Bushy’s KnowHow team helps investors unlock freedom with finance and property here, and check out Bushy’s podcast Get Invested.  RealtyTalk is supported by BMT, a company that helps property investors save thousands of dollars each year by maximizing tax deductions from investment properties. Find out more. 

Every day we hear potential investors and property buyers say property can’t continue to grow and go up in value as it has in the past. So let's put that to the test by doing a deep dive into what has happened over the last 10 years, as a precursor to what might happen in the decade ahead.  As the penultimate property of data and trends man, who has repeatedly swum against the tide of popular perception & the herd of negative lemon suckers, to be able to time and time again prove successful in interpreting masses of data to predict what impact it will have on the future of property, there is no better person than Simon Pressley of Propertyology to look at the past, present and future of property, to discover what he has seen change at the macroeconomic down to the micro property level over the last decade. RealtyTalk is your trusted voice in property investment and Australia’s most popular online property show.  RealtyTalk is brought to you by Realty, Australia’s leading search and social property distribution platform that helps investors like you beat the crowd, giving you the earliest access to property opportunities, listings, and insights. Check out Realty. RealtyTalk is hosted by top property investment expert, author, and founder of KnowHow Property, Bushy Martin. Find out how Bushy’s KnowHow team helps investors unlock freedom with finance and property here, and check out Bushy’s podcast Get Invested.  RealtyTalk is supported by BMT, a company that helps property investors save thousands of dollars each year by maximizing tax deductions from investment properties. Find out more.

Over its 10 year history, Real Estate Talk, or as it is known now Realty Talk, has documented many changes in market conditions and the experts who have provided views and opinions over those years are coming together to share their views with Bushy and Kevin and reflect on their personal journeys and experiences. RealtyTalk is your trusted voice in property investment and Australia’s most popular online property show.  RealtyTalk is brought to you by Realty, Australia’s leading search and social property distribution platform that helps investors like you beat the crowd, giving you the earliest access to property opportunities, listings, and insights. Check out Realty. RealtyTalk is hosted by top property investment expert, author, and founder of KnowHow Property, Bushy Martin. Find out how Bushy’s KnowHow team helps investors unlock freedom with finance and property here, and check out Bushy’s podcast Get Invested.  RealtyTalk is supported by BMT, a company that helps property investors save thousands of dollars each year by maximizing tax deductions from investment properties. Find out more.

To mark the 500th episode of the show, Bushy and Kevin reflect on the show’s development over the last decade, the changes and issues it has highlighted over the years, Kevin’s most memorable interviews, and his thoughts about the future.  Kevin and Bushy also discuss the issues for property enthusiasts that have not changed. RealtyTalk is your trusted voice in property investment and Australia’s most popular online property show.  RealtyTalk is brought to you by Realty, Australia’s leading search and social property distribution platform that helps investors like you beat the crowd, giving you the earliest access to property opportunities, listings, and insights. Check out Realty. RealtyTalk is hosted by top property investment expert, author, and founder of KnowHow Property, Bushy Martin. Find out how Bushy’s KnowHow team helps investors unlock freedom with finance and property here, and check out Bushy’s podcast Get Invested.  RealtyTalk is supported by BMT, a company that helps property investors save thousands of dollars each year by maximizing tax deductions from investment properties. Find out more.   

Since the advent of covid, there’s been a lot of talk about the exodus from our cities to lifestyle locations and the rise of the regions. But is this sustainable, will there be a post-pandemic boomerang back to the burbs, and is the rise of the regions all that it’s been cracked up to be? Jane Slack-Smith from Your Property Success joins us to balance the conversation. The recent surge in property values across the country means the runaway train of housing accessibility is getting further beyond reach so to discuss an innovative solution to the growing deposit hurdle, we’re joined by the CEO of Coposit Chris Ferris in part 1 of a 2 part Realty Talk feature. And to round out the show, our host Bushy Martin continues our special property management series by outlining the remaining key principles and rules of thumb you need to know, in order to select a great property manager. RealtyTalk is your trusted voice in property investment and Australia’s most popular online property show.  RealtyTalk is brought to you by Realty, Australia’s leading search and social property distribution platform that helps investors like you beat the crowd, giving you the earliest access to property opportunities, listings, and insights. Check out Realty. RealtyTalk is hosted by top property investment expert, author, and founder of KnowHow Property, Bushy Martin. Find out how Bushy’s KnowHow team helps investors unlock freedom with finance and property here, and check out Bushy’s podcast Get Invested.  RealtyTalk is supported by BMT, a company that helps property investors save thousands of dollars each year by maximizing tax deductions from investment properties. Find out more.

As property values have risen between 20-30% across the country over the last 12 months, what impact has this had on the wealth gap between genders? Core Logic’s Head of Research Eliza Owen joins us to discuss this based on her recently released 2022 Women & Property Report. Recent data reveals that 1.62 million Australian households are looking to downsize their homes over the next 5 years, but what type of properties are they looking for and how do they navigate the financial roadblocks to make this transition? Mark Macduffie from Downsizer.com joins us to talk about solutions to this growing challenge. How a property management office is structured has a big impact on your landlord or tenant experience so our host Bushy Martin concludes the show by continuing our special series on property management by revealing the differences between pods and portfolios.  RealtyTalk is your trusted voice in property investment and Australia’s most popular online property show.  RealtyTalk is brought to you by Realty, Australia’s leading search and social property distribution platform that helps investors like you beat the crowd, giving you the earliest access to property opportunities, listings, and insights. Check out Realty. RealtyTalk is hosted by top property investment expert, author, and founder of KnowHow Property, Bushy Martin. Find out how Bushy’s KnowHow team helps investors unlock freedom with finance and property here, and check out Bushy’s podcast Get Invested.  RealtyTalk is supported by BMT, a company that helps property investors save thousands of dollars each year by maximizing tax deductions from investment properties. Find out more. 

What do we have for you this week?   Is it too early to call a halt to the property boom? Who really knows? Everyone has an opinion and at the end of the day, only time will tell.  There are so many unknowns and this week we added a new big unknown – a federal election.  There is no doubt in my mind we are seeing a shift in market conditions as we move from a seller-controlled market to one dictated by buyers.  Buyside’s Josh Masters monthly review of market conditions gives some interesting insights and clues on what to look for. If you think the downsizing trend has been staggering up to now then brace yourself.  It is estimated that a staggering 1.6 million Aussies aged between 58 and 76 will downsize in the next 5 years. Bushy Martin catches up with Mark Macduffie, author of a report from downsizing.com, as he reveals a solution to a problem facing many of them.  Find out what that problem is in a moment and hear the solution. RealtyTalk is your trusted voice in property investment and Australia’s most popular online property show.  RealtyTalk is brought to you by Realty, Australia’s leading search and social property distribution platform that helps investors like you beat the crowd, giving you the earliest access to property opportunities, listings, and insights. Check out Realty. The show is normally hosted by top property investment expert, author, and founder of KnowHow Property, Bushy Martin. Bushy is on a break this week but you can find out how Bushy’s KnowHow team helps investors unlock freedom with finance and property here, and check out Bushy’s podcast Get Invested.  RealtyTalk is supported by BMT, a company that helps property investors save thousands of dollars each year by maximizing tax deductions from investment properties. Find out more.