Australian Property Investor Stories | Investment Conversations

Melissa Morgan is a property manager, licensee and founder of Progressive Property. The business helps the client manage their property and look after it as if it were their own. Melissa Morgan has nearly two decades worth of property investment and development experience and can provide invaluable stories and lessons that she has encumbered along her journey.

Come with us as we delve into her background and where she grew up as a child, what inspired her to get involved in the property industry, the role her parents played in her career, an unbelievable story that everyone can learn from and much more on this episode of Property Investory!

Steve McKnight is a successful property investor and bestselling author of From 0 to 130 Properties in 3.5 Years. With 500+ properties in his portfolio, the ex-accountant will uncover the cockroach horror stories, the presidential residents, the severe health issues that led to a lifestyle change and how he learnt that money is a tool, not a weapon.

From McKnight wealth of knowledge you will learn how to overcome any obstacle you come across in your journey - from a big career change to the exorcism (or intense renovation) of a property - and how if you want something, you need to make it happen yourself!

We’re chatting with Jan Somers, a woman and mother at the helm of a multimillion dollar empire and author of a series of award-winning books on property. Like renovating a house from the ground up, Somers will share her story and show you how you can manage your money by thinking big, but starting small!

The founder of Somersoft will discuss how she fell into property investing after a long career of teaching high school students, how she manages a plethora of projects at once and how she juggles all of this while dabbling in renovation and spending time with her family.

Daniel Walsh is a buyer’s agent and founder of Your Property Your Wealth which helps clients purchase investment properties in growth areas. His company’s aim is to help people build their property portfolio and provide adaptable strategies that can be utilised depending on each client’s circumstance.

Join us as Walsh answers the questions that you want to know about and he gives us his expert advice on varying aspects of property investing. We delve into how to invest inside and outside of your super fund, what to think about before investing in a block of units, the risks behind buying rural acreage as an investment, how to invest if you are out of the work force and much much more!

Jill McIntyre is a property and life coach that has had a number of years working within the property industry. She takes from her own life experiences and uses them to help coach her clients through their own circumstances. There is no one else that is more qualified to share her tips and advice when it comes to bettering yourself in order to achieve the goals you have set for yourself.

Join us on another installment of Mindset Monday as we delve into the topic of, ‘Why Financial Freedom?’, we discuss what that means and McIntyre explains the advantages of being able to set realistic goals that can be achieved in the now, the obstacles that we face every day that we might not even know about, we hear an amazing story about a young boy that started his own business and much much more!

We are joined once again by director of Bobby’s Landscaping, Sydney Strata Gardens, and The Investors Agency, Babak Haeri. We are continuing to talk about his property investing journey and will be finding out more about some of the properties he is currently working on and where he is looking to purchase properties in the future.

Join us as we delve into some of the strategies that Haeri uses when buying investment properties, the goals he is looking to achieve in the near future, why he wanted to get into the property industry after already establishing 2 successful companies, the best piece of advice he has received, some of his personal habits that have helped him become successful and much much more!

Babak Haeri is a property buyer’s agent and the director of three different companies, Bobby’s Landscaping, Sydney Strata Gardens and The Investors Agency. We learn more about how he is able to juggle three successful companies, his role in each of them and how he was able to start them.

Join us as we delve into his transition through different industries, how he started his property investing journey, the interesting story of the role his father played in purchasing his first investment property, the types of properties he likes to buy which you will not want to miss, the amazing moment he realised that he was going down the right track and much more on this episode of Property Investory!

Join us in this episode of Property Investory as we delve into how Brian McNicol managed to use the strategy of splitting to accumulate 14 residential properties and how venturing into the property landscape in New Zealand gave him extra leverage. Having purchased three commercial properties unencumbered to help support his lifestyle, he tells us about why commercial property investments can be better than residential and what he looks for when searching for a commercial property to purchase.

Learn about how he bought a 1.1 million dollar shopping centre that provided a net rental income of $92,000, the size of the deposit required when investing in commercial property and the biggest reason he became a buyer's agent and property investor. What's more, you'll hear all about the mentors and resources that have helped him along the way, what he would tell himself 10 to 20 years ago, what he is most excited about in the next five years and so much more! So what are you waiting for? Click that play button and let's get started!

Meet Brian McNicol, the successful commercial property investor and CEO of buyer's agency Commercial property, who made the transition into commercial property after having 14 residential properties under his belt. These days he specialises in finding commercial property for buyers with most of his clients focused on retail office accommodation and some on industrial, helping them to purchase those properties with recession-proof tenancy or a high net return. Born and bred in Brisbane, Brian McNicol studied Commerce at university and held a variety of roles, from accounting to clerical positions, before he made the jump into property, when a six-week role with the Queensland government resulted in close to nineteen years at the job that eventually led him to the role of property consultant.

Learn more about the residential properties he managed to accumulate through renovation and splitting, the lessons he learned along the way, what inspired him to go into property in the first place. Also, we will be delving into the moment he realised he could turn negative gearing into positive cash flow and why doctors and solicitors make good long-term tenants. So what are you waiting for? Click the play button to get started!

Simon Loo is a successful property buyer’s agent and director of buyer’s agency, House Finder. He has many years of experience and is kind enough to share some of his knowledge with us here at Property Investory. We learn about different strategies we can use to help us build our own successful portfolio.

Come with us as we delve into the topic of buying property like a pro. We find out about a particular client of Loo’s that he helped purchase their first property, what kind of research goes into finding the right property, some advice on what to look out for, and what you should do and what you shouldn’t do when buying property and much much more on this episode of Invest Like A Pro brought to you by House Finder!