Is owning more investment properties always better?

Not necessarily.

In this week’s FUNdamental Friday, Ben Kingsley sits down with Lachlan Delahunty from The Folio Group to discuss one of the biggest misconceptions in property investing:

The belief that more properties automatically means more wealth.

Lachlan shares a real-world example of an investor who accumulated 12 properties across four years, only to discover the portfolio wasn’t producing the results they expected.

They discuss:

✅ Quality vs quantity in property investing
✅ Why equity matters more than property count
✅ The risks of aggressive portfolio building
✅ Negative equity and misleading valuations
✅ Why exit strategies matter
✅ The dangers of investor-only markets
✅ Interest rates, cash flow buffers and risk management

Because property investing isn’t about collecting houses.

It’s about building wealth.

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🕧Timestamps
0:00 One investor’s 12-property mistake
0:17 Quality vs quantity
1:15 The real cost of a 12-property portfolio
1:54 PRE-Purchase Series
2:37 Why more properties aren’t always better
3:13 The “quick 60k” property myth
3:32 When investors need to sell
3:52 Why quality assets matter
4:14 Negative equity risks
4:46 Property portfolio comparison culture
5:07 When the music stops
5:49 The danger of groupthink
6:06 Risks investors ignore
6:24 Stress testing interest rates
6:44 Why some modelling is flawed
7:05 Cash flow, vacancies and risk
7:30 The tide is going out
8:13 Forced sellers explained
8:32 The long-term property investing formula

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