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

By The Property Couch October 5, 2017 in Podcast

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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, transforming an empty property into a buyer’s oasis in five weeks. Styling 300+ properties every year (1300 since TRES’s inception), these women are specialists in styling a space to make a killing at auction, focusing on buyer demographics, market specifics and a super-human level of detail. Sara and Amy have styled the properties of Rebecca Judd and previous TPC guests, Josh and Jenna from The Block and regularly feature on realestate.com.au as well.

Passionate about real estate, style and business, Sara and Amy chat with the boys about:

How did they get into the world of property styling?
What is a property stylist (and how is it different from an interior designer)?
Why a professionally styled property make such a difference to its value?
What happens behind the scenes in property styling? (Is it all glamour?)
What’s the process of engaging a property stylist and things to consider.
Styling 101 — what can you do yourself?
What does owner-occupier appeal and styling have in common?
What time frame should you be looking at if you want to get a property stylist in?
Who should view the property first: a stylist or a real estate agent?
Do they style for the market audience? How?
What is the “Cuppa Tea Test”?
Does property styling works better in an auction or private sale environment?
What are the smells you never thought mattered?
Should you get rid of those family photos?
What should you do with great tenants before you get a stylist in?
When will a stylist not make a difference?
What happens post-purchase?
What are the business (entrepreneurial) tips you need to know?

Click here for Tres’s Instagram (it’s pretty great!)

And here’s the case studies mentioned on the show: TRES’s Statistics

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

By The Property Couch August 22, 2017 in Podcast

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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 about all things renovation—and how to make a profit out of it!

We’ll cover quite a few things, folks:

What being “the bickering couple on The Block” was really like
How it felt to lose at auction
The most important tips for renovating
How they used the equity in their first home to buy in Melbourne (a city they hadn’t been able to afford until then)
What is the end game of buying and renovating in today’s market?
Their budget formula for renovations
How to invest in Blue Chip areas when you can’t afford it yet
The financial benefits of paying a Stylist to “stage your house” before selling
Tiny House Movement in Australia: What is it and how will it impact asset selection
The future of renovating and what need to know
Investing for Airbnb

Happy listening (you can hear Freddie in this podcast too, naaw)!

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

By The Property Couch August 17, 2017 in Podcast

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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 determination —had secured their own PPOR as well as 11 investment properties!

Here to explain how he did it, the co-host of Investing Insights with Right Property Group podcast, Victor Kumar, explains:

How he chose a mortgage broker to get the loan he was first rejected for
Who to take your advice from (aside from Jan Somers and David Chilton)
The difference between money and mindset, and why goal setting is crucial:

“The very first thing is: you’ve got to sort out your goals—why you’re doing it and what are you aiming for—before you start the journey. Most people start the journey and then try and get the GPS up-and-running to say we’re they’re going.”

Victor’s reason “why” he invests in property—and why it is crucial to know your “why”
A simple, easy habit anyone can do to outsmart a spruiker and determine if the property seminar is genuine
His investment strategy, how he accumulated such a ginormous portfolio and if he would do it again
A few of the mistakes and lessons learnt while building his portfolio (and they’re hilarious!)
When to DIY and when to always pay for professional services
What factors to consider if you are investing in the outer suburbs?
His renovation “Life Hack” and why it’s the most important renovation tip to add value
What are the three things that can ruin a property portfolio?
How to manage multiple investment properties and the problems with investing in too many properties
Special: Victor unpacked an amazing tip at the 55-minute mark. So make sure you don’t miss that!

Note: Victor brought enough gold to the couch to create a mining town … let us know if you agree! What to do and what never, ever to do … wooooaaaah, thanks Victor!

Some other resources for our fellow listeners:

Our chat with Steve Waters back in Episode 42 – Listen here
LocationScore’s Launch Offer is expiring this Sunday, 20th August 2017! (Code: TPC20) – Check it out here

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

By The Property Couch July 21, 2017 in Hot Market Tips, Podcast

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? (Side note: he actually calls himself the “property-data Nutcase”. Yep.)

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 that we’ve been waiting A LONG TIME to share this episode with you because … LocationScore is finally live!!

So, what is LocationScore?

Jeremy met with The Property Couch’s Bryce and Ben back in 2016 and that led to their creation of this online property research tool.

All of the indicators you hear mentioned in this episode are exactly what LocationScore’s algorithm measures! They are the tools that sniff out supply and demand levels of all across the country, changing the face of Capital Growth, and investing, forever!

So, what if we could tell you the suburbs—right down to the specifics of houses and units—that are saturated in scarcity, landing you the BETTER LOCATIONS to increase your chances of making real returns in the long term?

This is what LocationScore, pioneered by Jeremy, Ben and Bryce, has been designed to do for you.

These indicators are the wires that power LocationScore. And with over 15,000 suburbs in the Australian market, Jeremy, Ben and Bryce continue to untangle them for you, hoping to fix the headache of finding investment grade suburbs and, in turn, crucial asset selection.

Let’s be honest: there’s obviously a lot to tell you.

We hope you like this one guys!

Resources mentioned in this podcast:

LocationScore Webinar | Register your interest here
Interested in the LocationScore Advantage? | Check it out here. (Discount Code: TPC20. Valid till 19th August 2017)

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

By The Property Couch July 20, 2017 in Hot Market Tips, Podcast

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 future price of any good. If you know the exact level of supply and demand in a market, you can roughly predict its capital growth direction—up or down/making you money, or not.

But how do you identify the level, and how can specific variables influence the market’s movement?

There are 8 proven indicators that measures EXACTLY WHERE demand exceeds supply, honing in on where the capital growth lives.

And in PART ONE, 5 of the 8 key indicators will be explained by the boys. They are:

Stock on Market
Auction Clearance Rates
Online Search Interest
Days on Market
Vacancy Rate (and how to calculate your own vacancy rate)

Just listen. We promise more gold than ever.

So, what is LocationScore?

How it works (nutshell):

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