The Property Academy Podcast

In this episode, we discuss why first and second home buyers often can't buy a do-up and why that presents an opportunity for property investors.

A common misconception is that when first home buyers…

In this episode, we discuss compounding growth and why small differences in capital growth rates quickly add due to the compounding nature of property price growth. 

We also discuss how the combinati…

In this episode, we discuss how the property market will operate under Level 3, and how cour advice has changed now that we are moving through to level 3. 

We are finding that there are good deals av…

In this episode, we discuss different ways to live off your property portfolio. There are four ways we discuss, each with their pros and cons:

• Using a reverse mortgage to live off the equity within…

In this episode, we discuss how you can go from 2 properties to 5 properties and beyond. At some point, many investors hit a wall and the bank stops lending to them. No lending = no new investment pr…

In this episode, we discuss how to pay your mortgage off faster so that you can get in the position to invest in property.

During the show we give the example of a first home buyer who has purchased …

In this episode, we discuss whether you should buy an investment property from Golden Homes. 

Golden homes sits at the slightly premium end of the market relative to other competitors such as GJ Gard…

In this episode, we discuss how to use other people's money to invest. Essentially, this is the concept of leverage.

When you invest in property, you borrow money from a bank, but any returns made on…

In this episode, we dig into some of the results from a survey we are currently running that digs into the real reasons why people invest in property.

The top 4 reasons Kiwis invest are: retirement, …

In this episode, we discuss how real investors are feeling about the property markets' prospects during the Covid-19 induced shutdown. 

This data comes from both a webinar that we held last week, as …

In this episode, we discuss the areas of New Zealand that are most at risk from an onslaught of Airbnbs converting into residential tenancies. 

The data is in and suggests that McKenzie district (in …

In this episode, we discuss whether Auckland or Christchurch will weather the Covid-19 storm better in terms of property prices. 

This was the most popular question in our recent webinar that conside…

In this episode, we discuss the concept of de-gentrification, where an area with significant economic activity begins to lose it.

We apply this concept to New Brighton and discuss what investors coul…

In this episode, we discuss whether Ultra Fast Broadband could be the savings grace for New Zealand's small-town property markets. 

Our conclusion is that the benefits of UFB (and the internet in gen…

In this episode, we answer a listener's question, which stems from an earlier episode we recorded. In that episode (#208) we discussed three speculative scenarios, where increases to debt availabilit…

In this episode, we discuss how the property market is operating under the Covid-19 induced shutdown. This is based on real data collected by Tony Alexander of real estate agents and mortgage brokers…

In this episode, we discuss what to look for before you purchase a property, and in particular what to look for if you want to add value to the property. 

We start off by recommending QV, a New Zeala…

In this episode, we discuss a recent blog written by Ed with 3 speculative scenarios that would make the property market heat up.

These are:

• The maximum mortgage term lengthening from 30 to 35 or 4…

In this episode, we discuss the data you should be looking at based on your property investment strategy. 

• renovation – purchase price and how the market is moving (up or down) over the short term
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In this episode, we discuss the steps between going unconditional on a property and settlement. These steps include:

• paying your deposit into a solicitor's trust account. You solicitor will collect…