Hotspotting
589 episodes - English - Latest episode: 3 days ago -Prepare to embark on an exciting journey into the realm of hot property markets with Terry Ryder and Tim Graham! Terry & Tim from Hotspotting, are dedicated to providing the most accurate and unbiased research to help investors make informed decisions on where to buy. The Hotspotting Podcast brings you the latest data, trends, and market statistics, along with in-depth discussions on growth areas and the larger factors impacting Australia's property landscape.
Terry & Tim regularly feature special guests from around Australia to share their industry insights and expertise to help investors cut through the noise.
Whether you're a seasoned investor or a first-time buyer, this show is a must-listen for anyone looking to build their knowledge and make smarter investment choices. Terry Ryder, with over 35 years of experience as a specialist researcher and writer in residential property, offers expert insights that are completely independent and free from outside influences. Tim Graham has been a buyers agent and mortgage broker for over 13 years along with working in real estate all over the world.
Join us on the Hotspotting Podcast and discover the hottest opportunities in the Australian property market today!
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Interviews with the 1% - Kate Hill
April 26, 2024 00:04 - 25 minutes - 24.1 MBAre you ready to take your investment journey to the next level? Look no further, because we have exciting news to share with you! We are thrilled to announce our new Hotspotting pre-recorded interviews with some of the top 1% of Australian investors who own 5 or more properties. As you may know, in the 2020-2021 financial year, only 0.87% of investors in Australia owned 5 or more investment properties. But what do these successful investors know that the majority don't? We have sat ...
Divorce and Dollars: Managing Real Estate and Relationships with Sallyanne Hartnell
April 25, 2024 01:21 - 27 minutes - 26.1 MBJoin us on this enlightening episode of the Hotspotting podcast, where host Tim Graham welcomes Sallyanne Hartnell from Reflect Coaching. An award-nominated Relationship and Divorce Coach and podcast host of "Reflect, Reclaim & Liberate," Sallyanne is on a mission to transform the divorce experience, helping couples reorganise their lives and family dynamics post-separation with dignity and less drama. In this episode, Sallyanne sheds light on why she might be the professional "no one want...
Melbourne Property Growth
April 23, 2024 03:18 - 3 minutes - 7.63 MBThere are numerous reasons why we think Melbourne and Victoria is worthy of consideration by property investors, notwithstanding the concerted efforts by the state government and some local councils to force investors to sell up and get as far away from Victoria as possible. Melbourne and Victoria are underpinned by one of the nation’s strongest state economies, according to CommSec’s State of the States report, and there has been a notable uplift in sales activity since the start of 2024,...
First-Home Buyers vs. Investors in the Property Market
April 23, 2024 03:04 - 4 minutes - 9.68 MBMedia loves the storyline that first-home buyers are competing with wealthy investors for properties – and losing because investors apparently have a huge advantage. Like so much that’s written and spoken in news media about the housing market, it’s a work of fiction. The polar opposite is, in fact, the truth. The biggest competition for first-home buyers in the market is not investors, but home buyers other than first-time buyers. The largest cohort in the market, at any point in time...
Location Reports: Your Real Estate Game-Changer!
April 23, 2024 03:02 - 3 minutes - 7.5 MBIf you want to sell real estate, very often the greatest selling point is the location. If the location has … a strong diverse economy creating jobs, a steadily growing population with strong increases projected well into the future, good existing amenities and a significant spend on new infrastructure … then it has many of the credentials for capital growth. The problem for many real estate professionals - in taking advantage of growth factors like that in their location- is acces...
Webinar Replay - Why Melbourne Makes More Sense Than Perth
April 17, 2024 05:05 - 1 hour - 65.2 MBWant to get into a key market BEFORE prices start to take off? Feel that you may have missed the boat with media favourite Perth? In many ways, the answers to these questions are the essence of smart investing. Most property investors are herd animals, diving into markets when they read that prices have risen 15% or 20% in the past year – or 50% in the past three years. Buying in such a market means you are likely buying at – or after – the peak of the market. The smart money would ha...
Interviews with the 1% - Arjun Paliwal of InvestorKit
April 15, 2024 04:48 - 26 minutes - 24.4 MBAre you ready to take your investment journey to the next level? Look no further, because we have exciting news to share with you! We are thrilled to announce our new Hotspotting pre-recorded interviews with some of the top 1% of Australian investors who own 5 or more properties. As you may know, in the 2020-2021 financial year, only 0.87% of investors in Australia owned 5 or more investment properties. But what do these successful investors know that the majority don't? We have sat ...
Real Estate Influence on RBA
April 15, 2024 02:43 - 4 minutes - 10.9 MBPart of the obsession by economists with interest rates as the only thing that matters in the housing market is the notion that the Reserve Bank spends a large amount of time discussing the housing market before deciding what to do about interest rates. As with so many things, economists are wrong about that. One of the most popular definitions of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting a different result. My own definition of insanity is the average Austral...
First Home Buyer Activity
April 15, 2024 02:07 - 4 minutes - 11.1 MBIf you tune into news media regularly, it’s easy to form the view that the prospect of young Australians buying real estate is remote, if not impossible. There are daily headlines telling us that it takes 10 or 15 years to save a deposit, or that most young Australians have given up on home ownership and that young adults are doomed to a life-time of renting. As is so often the case with mainstream media and their love of negative sensation, the reality is quite different. First home buy...
Home Building Costs
April 08, 2024 06:58 - 5 minutes - 11.5 MBWant to know why housing affordability is so poor in this country? The answer, in simple terms, is because the cost of building new houses is so high – ridiculously, obscenely high. The cost of building the typical house in Australia has risen 53% in the past three years – and it now costs close to half a million dollars to build that home. And that’s just the cost of the house. It doesn’t include the price of the land. Who’s to blame for this situation? Primari...
Regional vs. City Growth
April 08, 2024 06:53 - 5 minutes - 11.6 MBWe’re constantly asked at Hotspotting whether it’s better to invest in the regions or the capital cities – and whether you get higher capital growth in the outer-ring suburbs of our cities or the so-called prime inner-city locations. Now, there’s no definitive answer to questions like that, because there are so many different scenarios to consider – and, at the end of the day, it comes down to the performance of individual local markets and you simply cannot generalise. But, based on the...
Victorian Markets
April 08, 2024 06:51 - 3 minutes - 7.02 MBThe smart money in real estate buys in key markets BEFORE prices start to take off. The essence of smart investing is NOT buying in over-heated markets like Perth but targeting locations that have the credentials for long-term growth but are currently at a low point in the cycle. And right now, the location that meets those criteria better than most is Victoria, particularly Melbourne. Most property investors are herd animals, diving into markets when they read that prices have risen 1...
Interviews with the 1% - Matt Wilson
April 07, 2024 23:11 - 17 minutes - 16.4 MBAre you ready to take your investment journey to the next level? Look no further, because we have exciting news to share with you! We are thrilled to announce our new Hotspotting pre-recorded interviews with some of the top 1% of Australian investors who own 5 or more properties. As you may know, in the 2020-2021 financial year, only 0.87% of investors in Australia owned 5 or more investment properties. But what do these successful investors know that the majority don't? We have sat do...
How To Multiply Your Wealth With Subdivision
April 03, 2024 23:15 - 1 hour - 66.8 MBMany Australians grow their wealth through passive investment in real estate: buy a property, install a tenant and wait for growth. There’s a better, and faster, way – without high risk. More and more investors are using development strategies to accelerate the wealth-creation process, with small subdivisions one of the most accessible and successful. Wealth mentor Brad Cassidy of The Kaizen Way teaches these strategies to investors across Australia, with notable results. Recently, o...
Webinar Replay - How To Multiply Your Wealth With Sub division
April 03, 2024 23:15 - 1 hour - 66.8 MBMany Australians grow their wealth through passive investment in real estate: buy a property, install a tenant and wait for growth. There’s a better, and faster, way – without high risk. More and more investors are using development strategies to accelerate the wealth-creation process, with small subdivisions one of the most accessible and successful. Wealth mentor Brad Cassidy of The Kaizen Way teaches these strategies to investors across Australia, with notable results. Recently, o...
Apartment Revolution in Real Estate
April 03, 2024 06:30 - 3 minutes - 8.58 MBAt Hotspotting we’re always on the alert for evidence of CHANGE that will influence property markets. The great potential in residential real estate is that change is always happening, opening up new possibilities for growth. One of our catch-cries at Hotspotting is that THE PAST DOES NOT INFORM THE FUTURE. Poor performers of the recent past can become the nation’s leaders of the near future. One of the biggest trends we are tracking, under the general theme of change, is the rise an...
Media Negativity
April 03, 2024 06:23 - 4 minutes - 9.62 MBI’ve been in and around news media my whole adult life and I STILL haven’t got used to the way journalists these days can look at a set of numbers that are overwhelmingly positive but find the only negative – and make that their headline. Somehow, journalists have formed the view that we’re endlessly attracted to screaming negatives and don’t want to hear about anything UPLIFTING that’s happening in the world. Recently, one of the major real estate data firms published data on the proper...
Interviews with the 1% - Marion Mays
March 27, 2024 07:05 - 40 minutes - 37.8 MBAre you ready to take your investment journey to the next level? Look no further, because we have exciting news to share with you! We are thrilled to announce our new Hotspotting pre-recorded interviews with some of the top 1% of Australian investors who own 5 or more properties. As you may know, in the 2020-2021 financial year, only 0.87% of investors in Australia owned 5 or more investment properties. But what do these successful investors know that the majority don't? We have sat do...
Australian Population Surge
March 25, 2024 05:23 - 2 minutes - 5.7 MBAt a time when Australia is buckling under the weight of the dwelling shortage problem, population growth is occurring at record levels, mostly because we are bringing in migrants at unprecedented levels. The latest data from the ABS shows that the national population rose 2.5% last year. That means 660,000 added to the Australian population, lifting the total close to 27 million – which is a milestone achieved well ahead of the official government forecasts. This historically high lev...
Ignored Rental Solutions
March 25, 2024 04:32 - 3 minutes - 8.45 MBThe politicians and talking heads of Australia are willing to consider or recommend ANYTHING as a solution to the rental shortage – anything EXCEPT the only thing that will work. And which, incidentally, would be really easy to implement and would have much faster outcomes than the many crackpot schemes that are being suggested. Every day mainstream media is full of articles about the rental crisis – with an emphasis on extreme situations, sensationalist headlines and the demonising of l...
Past Doesn't Matter
March 25, 2024 04:06 - 6 minutes - 14.4 MBOne of the factors we’re constantly searching for, among the thousands of markets across Australia, is CHANGE. We’re on the look-out, every day, for locations where the performance of the property market is set to go to another level because of major changes in the local economy. We sometimes surprise people by recommending areas that have a POOR TRACK RECORD on capital growth. But, essentially, we don’t care about the PAST when we’re choosing locations to recommend. We’re only intere...
The Doubling Game with Andrew Courtney of Plenitude Wealth
March 20, 2024 22:17 - 47 minutes - 44.3 MBIt’s true that if you invest wisely, you can grow substantial wealth through property investment but how big can you go? Can you double your net assets and keep doubling them to hit a $1million or $10 million or even $1billion? Strategic financial adviser, Andrew Courtney of Plenitude Wealth, says you can and he will join Hotspotting founder Terry Ryder on Wednesday 20 March for a webinar to reveal how the “Doubling Game” and real estate investment can accelerate the process. Courtney,...
State Laws Make It Worse
March 18, 2024 06:18 - 9 minutes - 21.9 MBWhen you have a major national crisis caused by the shortage of a key product, you take steps to facilitate an increase in the provision of the thing that’s in short supply. Right? And that would logically involve providing incentives to the people who supply the commodity that’s scarce - or otherwise creating conditions that make it easier for them to create more of that commodity. You would, wouldn’t you? Well, you would think so in a sensible world, but that’s not what happens in Au...
Property Investment: Media vs. Research (Featuring Hotspotting Best Buys Report)
March 18, 2024 06:12 - 3 minutes - 8.59 MBThe most successful property investors that I know have some features in common and making decisions based on research is one of the key ones. But those people are relatively rare. It seems to me, from observing the behaviour of investors for the past four decades, that more people make investment decisions based on media soundbites than on genuine research. Far too many people are leaping recklessly into the Perth property market because mainstream media keeps telling them that prices...
Interviews with the 1% - Episode 6 - Nicola McDougall
March 18, 2024 01:51 - 21 minutes - 24.7 MBIn our latest episode of 'Interviews with the 1%', we are excited to feature Best-Selling Author Nicola McDougall. In this episode Nicola shares her property investment journey including her parent's teachings, purchasing her first property tenants in common with her brother and growing her portfolio from there. Nicola details the struggles that women can face on single incomes but shares some tips on how to make the most out of your situation. About Nicola Nicola McDougall is one of...
What caused the Housing Crisis - With Terry Ryder & Simon Pressley of Propertyology
March 15, 2024 01:12 - 19 minutes - 32.7 MBThe housing crisis in Australia has been the hot topic for a number of years now. But how did we get here? Tune in to our latest podcast with Terry Ryder & Simon Pressley of Propertyology. Arguably two of the best minds in Australian Real Estate. About Simon Pressley Managing Director of Propertyology and 3-time Australian (REIA) Buyer's Agent Of The Year, Simon Pressley was inducted into the Australian Real Estate Hall of Fame in 2015. Simon is passionate about helping everyday Aus...
Shortage Continues
March 14, 2024 07:15 - 7 minutes - 17 MBThe chronic housing shortage that we’ve been hearing so much about lately is getting worse – and will continue to get more and more serious. Three major measures of the supply of homes, both for purchase and for rent, are heading in the wrong direction for a nation that needs solutions from our politicians. Building approvals continue to fall when the nation needs them to be rising, loans for the purchase of new dwellings are also heading in the wrong direction, and vacancy rates continu...
Fair Value
March 14, 2024 07:13 - 8 minutes - 19 MBThey say that insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. By that definition, many of the nation’s most high profile economists are insane. One of the defining characteristics of Australia’s leading economists is that they will never change their theories about housing markets and property prices, no matter how often they are exposed as being wrong. The senior economists working for the big banks continue to discuss the entity they call “the Au...
Interviews with the 1% - Episode 5 - Simon Pressley
March 08, 2024 00:52 - 31 minutes - 45.5 MBIn our latest episode of 'Interviews with the 1%', we are excited to feature Simon Pressley of Propertyology. This is an absolute must-see episode with arguably two of the best brains in real estate here in Australia. In this pre-recorded video Simon shares his strategies, experiences, and lessons learned along the way, giving you an inside look into how he has built his impressive portfolio. About Simon Pressley Managing Director of Propertyology and 3-time Australian (REIA) Buyer's A...
The 1% Podcast: Secrets of Australia's Most Successful Property Investors
March 07, 2024 02:58 - 3 minutes - 8.49 MBAustralians are passionate about real estate and over two million of us own investment properties, while many more have aspirations to acquire property to grow their wealth and provide for their retirement. But while the nation is full of people with ambitions in real estate, the reality is that relatively few people are successful with property investment. As a nation, we’re not particularly good at property investment. The official data shows that while more than two million Australi...
Internal Migration Driving Real Estate
March 07, 2024 02:51 - 3 minutes - 6.89 MBInternal migration, which means people moving from one part of Australia to another, continues to be a major driver in real estate markets across the nation. The trend we call The Exodus to Affordable Lifestyle is still pumping, with large numbers of people relocating from the biggest cities to regional areas in pursuit of a different lifestyle at cheaper prices. The latest data and analysis from a range of sources, including the Regional Australia Institute and real estate data company ...
Brisbane: Australia's Real Estate Rising Star of 2024
March 07, 2024 02:49 - 2 minutes - 6.46 MBHotspotting has just published its annual report with Australia’s largest comparison website Canstar, the one we call Rising Stars. In the Rising Stars report each year, we use five key metrics to rank the 14 major market jurisdictions in the nation - the eight capital cities and six state regional markets. The report ranks the 14 market jurisdictions from 1 to 14 on their prospects for growth in the coming year. The 2024 edition of Rising Stars ranks Brisbane No.1 - the market with th...
Webinar - The Reventon Formula - Results that speak for themselves
March 06, 2024 23:28 - 1 hour - 85.4 MBAre you ready to take your property investment game to the next level? Catch the replay of our exclusive webinar hosted by Tim Graham from Hotspotting, featuring special guests Chris and Zen Christofi from Reventon. During this webinar, Chris and Zen unveiled the highly sought-after Reventon Formula that has been transforming the lives of Australians since 2005. This proven formula has helped thousands of individuals grow substantial property portfolios as well as help pay down owne...
Will 2024 be a bigger year than 2023? - Terry Ryder with Arjun Paliwell
February 28, 2024 04:09 - 1 hour - 83.8 MBAustralia's #1 Buyers Advocate InvestorKit’s analysis of the fundamentals says Yes! The best forecasters of real estate trends are the specialists dedicated to researching markets daily. They’re not bank economists and media commentators who occasionally turn their attention to the housing market. They’re the full-time dedicated professionals who have picked apart property dynamics to understand the trends and why some locations perform better than others. They’re people like Arjun P...
Pulse and Positive
February 26, 2024 05:43 - 2 minutes - 6.5 MBIt looks increasingly likely that we have passed the end of the interest rate cycle and that the next change by the RBA is likely to be a REDUCTION in the official cash rate. In the meantime, mortgage rates will remain high, compared to their levels prior to May 2022, when the first increase by the RBA occurred. The general consensus from economists – who are, let’s face it, not particularly good with forecasting anything to do with the housing market – is that any reduction in interest ...
Negative Gearing Misinformation
February 26, 2024 05:40 - 4 minutes - 10.5 MBOne of the reasons we seldom find solutions to serious problems in Australia is that we never seem able to have a calm, honest and rational debate about any of the issues. This is particularly true in the housing market, where housing affordability has been an ISSUE OF ENDLESS DEBATE for decades, without any improvement in the situation. The rental shortage crisis has been building for years, and there is daily media coverage of the problems, but no one among the political leadership any...
Can you buy under $750,000?
February 26, 2024 05:37 - 4 minutes - 11.1 MBIt’s really disheartening sometimes to see how bad the media coverage of real estate is in Australia. The media’s standard treatment of the affordability issue is a prime example. Mainstream media delights in running the story line that first-home buyers are priced out of the market and that’s not even worth trying to find a home. That story has run pretty much every day, somewhere in the national media, for not just years but for decades. One particularly ridiculous treatment of this ...
Commercial Property Investment w Steve Palise
February 21, 2024 05:35 - 32 minutes - 42 MBIn our latest episode of Hotspotting Podcast, Tim Graham had the privilege of speaking with Steve Palise, founder of Palise Property and a true master in the world of Commercial Property Investment. Steve walked us through the importance of diversification within our portfolios and how Commercial Property can be a valuable asset in achieving that. In this episode, Steve shares his extensive knowledge of the differences between residential and commercial property investments, debunking comm...
Dishonest Politicians
February 19, 2024 05:50 - 6 minutes - 13.8 MBThe man in the image behind me is Australia’s most dishonest politician. I know this is a big statement, because Australian politics abounds with dishonesty, deception and bastardry. We have a Federal Government which has routinely broken its election promises, including the ones about tax cuts and about taxation of superannuation, and they’ve been in power less than two years. We have politicians on all sides of the political divide who habitually tell lies in Parliament a...
Leap Day Special
February 19, 2024 05:47 - 3 minutes - 8.29 MBThere are two standout factors for investors to be aware of when seeking capital growth in the current market. One is that two of the smaller capital cities are the national leaders on price growth and the other is that apartment locations are among the best performers in the nation. The Perth boom has been well-publicised and many investors are keen to be part of the growth that has been occurring in the WA capital. In our latest report, we have broadened the scope to incl...
Buying Airspace - with Tim Graham & Special Guest Warren Livesey
February 13, 2024 00:32 - 23 minutes - 22.3 MBIn today's podcast, we sit down with Warren Livesey, the founder of Buy Airspace, to discuss this innovative solution in more detail. Warren shares his expertise and insights on the growing airspace real estate market and how strata owners can benefit from this untapped opportunity. He also delves into the legal and practical aspects of selling airspace, as well as the potential impact on the community and the environment. Tune in to this enlightening conversation with Warren Livesey of ...
WA vs. VIC
February 12, 2024 02:29 - 5 minutes - 12.7 MBThe governments of Western Australia and Victoria provide a stark contrast in how to address the chronic rental shortage that is afflicting both states – and every other part of Australia. WA has adopted the enlightened approach of providing encouragement and incentives for people to buy properties in Perth and make them available for long-term rental – which is the only viable way to solve the shortage problem. Victoria, on the other hand, has decided to punish investors for being inve...
Navigating the Mortgage Market in 2024 with Lucky Velasquez
February 07, 2024 03:40 - 1 hour - 55.8 MBAre you feeling overwhelmed by the complexities and uncertainties of the current mortgage market? Are you unsure about the best strategies for financing your dream home or investment property? We understand that navigating the mortgage market can be a daunting task, especially in today's rapidly changing economic environment. That's why we recently held a webinar called "Navigating the Mortgage Market in 2024: What Borrowers Need to Know" This informative session was hosted by tw...
Perth Frenzy
February 05, 2024 06:34 - 5 minutes - 11.5 MBOne of the characteristics of Australians who get into real estate investment is that they tend to be herd animals. They dive into property investment when they hear or read in news media that there is a boom happening – and so they want to be part of it. This is where the FOMO syndrome – Fear Of Missing Out – plays a major role. But people who behave in this way are the least likely to achieve success with property investment. And it may help to explain why most Australians who atte...
Regional Momentum: NSW's Diverse Market
February 05, 2024 06:33 - 3 minutes - 7.69 MBOne of the great strengths of Regional NSW is that it provides affordable lifestyle alternatives to the super expensive Sydney property market. Regional NSW in many ways provides something for everyone: some of Australia’s largest and most important regional cities, attractive sea change towns, appealing hill change enclaves, industrial centres, strong multi-purpose inland cities, lifestyle regions – and price ranges to suit most budgets. Another of the Regional NSW advantages is that it...
Sydney Surge
February 05, 2024 06:30 - 4 minutes - 9.4 MBThe Sydney market performed strongly in 2023, according to data from all the major research sources, and has started the New Year with considerable forward momentum. PropTrack reports that the median house price for Greater Sydney rose around 8% in 2023, above its capital city average of 6.4%. Domain has more bullish figures, with Sydney’s median house price rising 10.6% last year, while CoreLogic claimed that Sydney house prices lifted 12.5%, also above its national average of 8.6%. W...
Pointless Enquiries
February 01, 2024 03:06 - 3 minutes - 8.48 MBWhen politicians create an inquiry or a royal commission to examine an important issue, you can be certain that nothing much is going to change. An inquiry is a device used by politicians to give the appearance of doing something meaningful, while changing nothing. So the Prime Minister’s plan to have an inquiry into supermarket chains like the thoroughly-dishonest Woolworths, which will take over a year, is a clear signal that there is a serious issue which the Federal Government has no...
Investors Not Privileged
February 01, 2024 03:00 - 4 minutes - 9.45 MBResidential real estate abounds with myths and misconceptions, most of them perpetrated by politicians and others with a vested interest in having people believe something that’s not true. The greatest fallacy of all is that property investors are a privileged class with massive tax and other advantages that distort the market and cause problems like poor affordability and the rental shortage. In reality, the opposite is true. Property investors are seriously disadvantaged and discour...
Price Data Differences
February 01, 2024 02:59 - 4 minutes - 10.6 MBAustralian consumers can be forgiven for thinking that property price data published by research firms like PropTrack and CoreLogic is a matter of fact. The median house price for a city, you might think, is a matter of fact and how much it has risen or fallen is a matter of fact. Right? Well, actually, no. Media reports these figures as if they are absolute fact - but they are not. Like all real estate data, median prices are rubbery figures. The median price for a city, and how m...
Motivate Property Podcast with Corey Jones with Special Guest Tim Graham
January 31, 2024 01:11 - 55 minutes - 53.9 MBTim Graham of Hotspotting.com.au was a guest on Corey Jones Motivate Property Podcast this week. They discussed the fascinating world of AI technology and its disruption within the real estate industry, along with some market predictions for 2024. For those looking for a great Buyers Agent in W.A. look no further than Corey Jones from Motivate Property and be sure to give his podcast a follow.