This week the team cover off on some suburbs in Hobart that are surprisingly more affordable to buy a property in than to find a rental.
It may be hard to find with the shortage of Listings on the market currently, but if you can find one, it may just be worth jumping on it!

Transcript of 'Suburbs that are More Affordable to Buy In than Rent'

Podcast Episode: Suburbs that are More Affordable to Buy In than Rent

Speakers: Aaron Horne, Patrick Berry & John McGregor

TRT: 26 mins 47 secs

Aaron: The idea of some suburbs that it’s actually cheaper to buy and pay off your mortgage in rather than actually [um] find a rent.

[intro music]  Going once, going twice! Sold… you’re listening to The Property Pod!

Aaron: Alright, guys! Welcome back to The Property Pod, your weekly engagement into the real estate here in the Hobart Marketplace. I’m Aaron Horne, I’m joined at the desk--as always--by Patrick Berry and John McGregor.

[casual greeting sounds]

Aaron: I just want to put it out that they were trying something new there today you won’t hear it in the audio format, but… what we’re trying to do is get our live setup going.

Patrick: Yes, so we’re getting a little bit closer to changing the show up and going live each week which is going to be exciting.

Aaron: Yeah, it’s been a dream for a while. We’ve been trying to sort it out. I’m just trying to nut out this kind of crossing in between people so in the video format. I’m on screen at the moment,, but I’ve just got to work out when you guys are gonna talk and know if I hit the right button.

John: Yeah, it’s not a means that you’re sitting there, just nothing, but pushing the buttons all the time.

Aaron: Well, it feels like I’m playing “Mortal Kombat” or something, where I’m kind of hitting all the buttons and just being like geez, I hope I get a combo--

[everyone laughs]

Aaron: So, it’s pretty interesting, but we’ll get there…we’ll get there [the other two agree] Things are working out all right, I’m just looking up, if you see me looking up, I’m looking up to the skies, to the gods of technology. We have invested in some stuff and we’re trying to move forward with it--I’m pretty excited with this, boys!

John: It really does look cool. It really does look cool. 

Aaron: Yeah, so now, look, it’s the future of The Property Pod, thank you for coming along this far with us and we’ll see how we go moving forward--yeah this is harder than I thought.

[everyone laughs]

Aaron: The idea of talking and hitting the buttons at the same time maybe is a little harder than we anticipated

John: Oh, man! It’s kind of like...[stutters] if ever I’m learning a new song, will be the chords, you know how to play it, and then you trying to sing and then just nothing [stutters] comes to fruition.

Aaron: Yeah, well something will come to fruition, it’ll just be lots of jumps all over the place, but that’s all right, we’ll get into some property stuff. Before we do, though, I just wanted to cover off John McGregor. You were caught in the wild on the weekend.

John: [in exciting voice] Oh yes, yes! So… it was quite… quite funny actually, because normally, I suppose [uh] I remember there was a story my brother Luke had once where he was sitting with [um] Sean Mcauliffe, and of course, Sean, I suppose, has been a celebrity for a long time, so he’s used to people coming up and asking for their photos, but obviously, Luke had just hit the point where people were recognizing him because he was sitting, having a drink or dinner with Sean Mcauliffe and then this person is coming and saying “Oh hey! I’m such a big fan! Can I get a photo?” and so Luke’s gotten ready to [you know] grab the phone, but then, Sean’s got ready for the photo and they’re like “Can you hold my phone, please?” Oh so they’ve got my car left and past the calf to get the phone because they didn’t know who the hell he was

[everyone laughs]

Aaron: Well. I’m not talking about your brother here. [John: No no no] This is a story all about you. This is you’ve been spotted in the wild as property pod.

John: Yeah, I was [uh] I actually had a fan [stutters] of our show come up to us suddenly. That was amazing! She was such a cool chick, too. Yes, I’m a big fan--

Aaron: I’ve actually mentioned her on the podcast before. I don’t know if I’ve told you this story, Pat, but [um] Saturday morning--oh no, Sunday morning! I got this photo. It’s John Mack with [um] a friend of mine and she’s like: “I saw John in the public, I saw him at the park [the other two laugh] I just had to go and tell him how much I love The Property Pod”. But, I said he’ll love that like--[accidentally coughs].

John: And the beauty of going live is we have to deal with things like this--

Aaron: --or the beauty of going live is I’ve never had a glitch [the other two laugh] one time I’ve decided to go for it. No, so Megan [uh] has been a long time listener on the show--big big fan [um] I’ve mentioned her before, she bought a place on pretty road and she did it up and kind of this tiny beautiful quaint little cottage and [yeah, no] so, it’s amazing she loves The Property Pod. She’s other than none, probably number one biggest fan.

Patrick: It’s funny you say that because I was also doing a valuation this week [unintentionally coughs] Now, I’m getting the calls far out [slightly laughs] and when I was doing valuation, the guys actually moved over from Melbourne to be able to help all the valuation load that is down here to try to clear the books for this agency--

John: --because there’s so many properties--

Patrick: --getting going under the contract and so there’s too many valuations that need to be done and we got talking about Simon Presley in the marketplace and the podcast came up and he was like: “Oh what’s its name?” and I told him it’s Property Pod, he’s like I’ve been listening to that in Melbourne for ages and he started referencing different shows where we had John’s brother on and all these different things--

[the other two react]

Patrick: Man, people do actually listen to us talk rubbish

Aaron: Oh yeah, I can get you the stats like yeah, no people listen out there, we’re not just doing this for, but we do say it’s lots of fun but people are listening [everyone laughs] It’s not just our names.

John: [stutters] well, I have to say, you know, thanks--big big thanks for coming to say hello like [uh] because I felt really chuffed you know. It was [it was] a real honor to [um] just [just] say hey, you know, “big fan! Love the work!” [um] and then if your friend was like “oh, you know what’s this about?” and then she’s like--she put onto it and shut her up...