Property Investment & Wealth Creation Australia | The Michael Yardney Podcast

Property Investment & Wealth Creation Australia | The Michael Yardney Podcast

Melbourne property investors have endured almost a decade of disappointing growth, and the usual explanation is taxes, debt and government policy.   But what if the biggest cause was the extraordinary 20-year boom that came before it?    By the end of this episode, you'll understand exactly why Melbourne has underperformed for the best part of a decade, why the usual suspects, land tax, state debt, poor sentiment, probably aren't the real culprits, and why the length of Melbourne's flat patch might actually be the strongest signal yet that a powerful new growth cycle is coming....

Property Investment & Wealth Creation Australia | The Michael Yardney Podcast

What if the biggest financial mistakes people make aren't about picking the wrong investment or getting the timing wrong - but about the things nobody ever sat them down and actually explained?   I've spent over 50 years in property investment. I've read hundreds of books, attended countless courses, paid for mentors, and written nine books of my own.   And yet, despite all of that, some of the most important money lessons took me far longer to truly understand than I would have liked.   Today, I want to share those with you. Not as theory, but as the hard-won insights...

Property Investment & Wealth Creation Australia | The Michael Yardney Podcast

By the time many of today's Gen Z buys their first home, Melbourne will have overtaken Sydney as Australia's biggest city.   Canberra will be bigger than Newcastle. And a sleepy Victorian farming town called Warragul will have more than tripled in size.   If that sounds far fetched, stick around, because today we're unpacking a piece of research that maps out every major Australian city and town all the way to 2050, and some of the findings will completely reshape how you think about where the next wave of property demand is heading   It’s more than just a prediction;...

Property Investment & Wealth Creation Australia | The Michael Yardney Podcast

Right now, there are two types of property investors in Australia. Those who bought before 7:30pm on the 12th of May 2026, and those who bought after it.   And depending on which camp you're in, the entire economics of your next move just changed.   If you already own an established investment property, you're sitting on something the government has effectively locked in for you, full negative gearing, the old rules, preserved.   But here's what almost nobody's talking about. What you do with that property from here can either protect that advantage or accidentally throw...

Property Investment & Wealth Creation Australia | The Michael Yardney Podcast

What if the decisions that make you feel safest as a property investor are actually the ones most likely to cost you a fortune?   Waiting for interest rates to settle sounds sensible. Keeping your money in cash feels secure. Avoiding investment debt appears responsible, while buying in the same locations everyone else is talking about provides the comfort of following the crowd.   Yet each of these choices can carry hidden risks.   In today’s show, I want to explore one of the most important psychological traps property investors face: confusing familiarity with safety and...

Property Investment & Wealth Creation Australia | The Michael Yardney Podcast

What if the secret to becoming wealthy wasn’t being smarter than everyone else?   What if it wasn’t timing the market, picking the next hot suburb, or finding some clever tax loophole?   What if the real secret was simply living long enough to let good assets quietly compound in the background?   Now, I know that sounds strange, but in a recent article in The New Daily Simon Kuestenmacher used a fascinating idea he called “vampire economics.”   His argument was that if vampires existed, they should be incredibly wealthy.   After all, they don’t retire. They...

Property Investment & Wealth Creation Australia | The Michael Yardney Podcast

Australia’s housing debate seems to offer us two choices: a detached home on an increasingly unaffordable block of land, or an apartment in a large tower.   Between those two forms of housing is what planners call the “missing middle”.   This includes duplexes, terraces, townhouses, maisonettes, courtyard housing and small low-rise apartment buildings. They provide more homes than a conventional suburban subdivision, while retaining much of the space, privacy and neighbourhood character people value.   So why aren’t we building more of them, particularly in the...

Property Investment & Wealth Creation Australia | The Michael Yardney Podcast

Twenty years ago I wrote a book that I honestly thought would sell a few thousand copies to friends and colleagues.   Instead, it became Australia's best-selling property investment book, and it's sat on the bookshelf of tens of thousands of investors who've gone on to build genuine wealth using the strategies inside it.   Today we're doing something a little different. Instead of me interviewing a guest, I'm handing the microphone over, and my colleague from Metropole, Joseph Bellotta, who is going to interview me about the brand new edition of "How to Grow a Multi-Million Dollar...

Property Investment & Wealth Creation Australia | The Michael Yardney Podcast

There is one thing every property investor wants to know right now. How long is this property downturn actually going to last?   You've heard all sorts of opinions. Some people say it's almost over. Others are telling you we're heading for a crash that will make 2008 look like a picnic. Neither of those is right, and today's guest has the data to prove it.   By the end of today's show, you're going to understand exactly what history tells us about how long property downturns run for, why some markets are falling harder than others, and what you need to be doing right now if the...

Property Investment & Wealth Creation Australia | The Michael Yardney Podcast

Smart investors still make expensive mistakes, and surprisingly often, the problem begins inside their own heads.   We like to believe that our investment decisions are based on facts, careful analysis and rational judgment. Yet cognitive biases quietly shape which facts we notice, which risks we dismiss and which stories we choose to believe.   They encourage property investors to follow the crowd, cling to underperforming assets, chase yesterday’s winning markets and become more confident precisely when they should be more cautious.   Louise Bedford – “The Money...