Summary
I’m excited today to be having a conversation with Bryce Holdaway and Ben Kingsley who co-host the very popular podcast called The Property Couch.
Some of the topics we cover in today’s episode are:
- How Ben and Bryce originally made a connection (00:02:00)
- Property investing guidelines and regulations (00:12:37)
- Their investing strategy/philosophy (00:23:25)
- The Australian housing and rental crisis (00:48:56)
- Active property investing vs passive share market investing (00:37:03)
- Are property investors adding to affordability issues or are they being used as political scapegoats? (00:56:45)
- How The Property Couch podcast got started (01:20:33)
Yeah. Love the way you guys laugh at people who have been waiting 4-5 years.
Like buying a house is a joke. Come off it. Buying a house does take 4-5 years to plan.
Not only is it a huge debt, but there are so many factors. I guess its fine for you millionares.
I’m sorry it was perceived in a negative way Barry. It wasn’t intended to be.
Hey Mate, if you start investing today, would you still buy properties or would you start boring ETF investing straight away?
Properties.
Can you elaborate why you would invest in properties ? I thought you changed your mind few years ago and sold your properties to buy etf.
I’d be willing to choose the higher risk option (properties) for the potentially high returns if I was starting from scratch.
Once we had a decent amount, I was comfortable with the lower risk passive income of shares to fund our lifstyle.
There’s nothing with either option IMO
I’m not interested in investing in property at all, but I found this conversation very interesting. Thanks!
Thanks Frogdancer! It was a fun conversation.
Hey, thanks for posting this, was interesting.
I notice you still have a PPOR. Do you think it’s safe to FIRE without a PPOR, by paying rent out of index fund returns? Or do you think there’s some risk, e.g. rent increases outpacing index fund returns?
(Sorry, I know this is not directly related to the topic, feel free to point me somewhere else.)
You don’t technically need a PPoR to FIRE.
Having said that, I don’t mind paying extra for the added security.
There’s risks involved with both decisions.