#19 - Follow the Money: Where Smart Investors are Dumping Millions This 2024 (Hint: Not Crypto!)

Steve sits down with Matt and Janine, a married couple with two young kids who started buying property in 2018 with no inheritance and no six-figure income. Matt picked up most of his knowledge from property podcasts on long shifts driving fuel tankers around Victoria. Janine did her own self-education until she was on the same wavelength. Over the next few years they bought in Ballarat, Moreton Bay, Perth and south-east Queensland, refinancing every time the equity moved. The portfolio was w...

Steve sits down with Matt from Tasman Finance Partners, a trans-Tasman mortgage broker who arranges lending on both sides of the ditch for New Zealanders buying in Australia and Australians buying in New Zealand. Matt set the business up in 2024 servicing Kiwis who wanted to keep their New Zealand home rather than sell into a down market, and over the last twelve months the inquiry has flipped, with Australians now making up the bulk of the pipeline. The two of them work through w...

Steve sits down with Gabby Ingram, a martial arts school owner from Melbourne who was told by every buyer's agent she spoke to that she needed at least $1 million to buy her first commercial property. She didn't accept it. Gabby comes from a family of property investors, with a mum who has invested for 25 years and a grandmother who has self-managed a commercial portfolio for around 70 years, so she did her own research and found a buyer's agent who agreed she didn't need seven figures ...

Steve sits down with Engelo Rumora, an Australian investor who sold down his residential portfolio 15 years ago and moved to the United States to chase a once-in-a-lifetime buying window after the global financial crisis. Engelo started by picking up houses for 15 to 25 thousand dollars and selling them for around 60, and from there, he built a business that flipped over a thousand properties and now manages roughly 400 single-family homes out of Toledo, Ohio. He talks candidly a...

Steve sits down with Dr Daniel Lamp, a Sydney-based GP and host of the Passive Income Doctors podcast, who built a 12-property portfolio in under a decade on a starting salary of $62,000. Dr Dan went against the advice of parents, friends and colleagues who told him to buy blue-chip Sydney real estate, and instead bought interstate in Brisbane, Perth, Darwin and regional Queensland before those markets ran. This episode covers his full portfolio timeline, the markets he chose and ...