Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
It's The Real Estate Podcast, brought to you by ANZ Home Loans for financial well-beings. And welcome to another episode of The Real Estate Breakfast, available on iHeartRadio every morning and also on Spotify and Apple and wherever you get your podcasts from. It's a Sunday morning, halfway through your weekend around Australia. It is the 16th day for October for 2022.
Hope your weekend is going well, particularly around property. Coming up in just a moment, we're going to be reflecting back on the last seven days from the real estate breakfast with the seven-day rewind, looking at some of the interviews, which includes buying a house when you're drunk. Yes, we find out that story from Luana in Wales.
We also talked to Angie Zigamanis over the supply of apartments and areas where people are losing money when selling. We also talked to Cassandra Cross about real estate fraudulent behaviour and why people are lying about their wealth and then walking through luxury high-end property to buy when they don't have the money.
We also talked with Vaughan Clark this morning in Melbourne about people being much more cautious with their mortgages and some of the dangers right now borrowing at the full maximum. That is all coming up on the Sunday Rewind next. And if you're celebrating your birthday on the 16th day for October, John Mayer, you share your birthday with him.
And with all of this talk about tactical nukes from Putin, I see in the history books from 1964, the first Chinese nuclear test took place. It was a 22 kiloton uranium device that was dropped at Lop Nur, which is inside China.
Then, interestingly enough, in 2009, a Japanese scientist published his results of his computer simulation, which suggests, based on deaths from the nuclear test and others, that up to 190,000 people could have died in China from nuclear-related illnesses. And of course, we would hate to think what the death toll would be inside the Ukraine if that happened in 2022.
It's the main centre forecast with PRD, selling smarter every day. Okay, let's lighten up the tone and check on your weather on this Sunday morning. First we go to Sydney and expecting the showers to increase in a high of 22 degrees. In Melbourne, one or two showers in the forecast and 17. Brisbane expecting some possible showers and a high of 25.
And in Perth today, partly cloudy, but it should be mainly dry. So get out and enjoy it around Perth and your high of 21. It's your Real Estate Weekend podcast in review. We stayed for a couple of drinks as we did quite regularly. But this time was particularly wild. We ended up playing drinking games. I ended up stumbling home at half past eight. Honestly, I don't remember.
But apparently I said, I'm buying that house. And I phoned the estate agents and I put in a bid. Yes. So subconsciously you were there, you were on, you were thinking real estate and you were still switched on enough to buy it. So that says something about the way that you think about real estate maybe.
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Chapter 2: How did Luana buy a house while drunk?
I just, as soon as I walked into that house, I could just see the potential, you know? And, you know, isn't it all about taking risks? Like, nothing's ever going to be safe. Yes, I was drunk, but it turned out very well. It was the best drunk decision I ever made, and I would do it all over again. And so after you sold the first one, did you stay with the theme?
Did you have a little bit of alcohol perhaps to go to the second one? I did not. Maybe I should have done. Well, it was such a great result. So I was just thinking perhaps you want to keep to that sort of method. It worked. I'll bear that in mind for future. And what about the royals? Are you a royalist with this change that has now happened? I definitely wouldn't call myself a royalist.
But, you know, it's always sad when people die, isn't it? A long reign and all that. But, you know, I wouldn't call myself a royalist. It's been a very sombre time around here lately.
Chapter 3: What issues arise from the oversupply of apartments?
And do you think that Prince Charles or King Charles is going to make a great king? I do, you know, I think he's got really strong values and I do. I'm feeling quite positive about it. It's not something that I'm that clued up or interested in. It's just I do think that he will be a great king, actually. Now, I've got to ask you this question, Luana. What sort of media attention have you had?
I mean, here we are in Australia giving you a call in Wales. Has your phone been running hot? This story's gone crazy. It was a little throwaway comment that I made to a journalist thinking it was going to be par.
Chapter 4: What are the signs of real estate fraud?
of an article it ended up being its own article it's ended up going worldwide what can I say I don't I never knew that it was going that people would be so interested enjoy your morning coffee it's your real estate weekend podcast in review around the whole decision making where people are deciding to go for what they see as a safer bit in these boutique developments is
Has that been a growing trend that you've observed, say, over the last six months? Well, yeah, even over the last two or three years. Boutique apartments in smaller projects typically have showed better resale price performance than larger high-rise apartments, and there are a number of reasons for it.
Normally, they're high aspect and better quality, but also being in a smaller project when you're reselling tends to mean that you also have less competition for sales because there's less likely to be other apartments within the project selling on the market at the same time. And also in those boutique projects, you tend to get a mix of investor owners and owner-occupier buyers.
So you've actually got a broader market to sell into as well. Do you think in general there seems to be a bit of a downturn in people looking towards these shiny high-rise developments because of some of the problems that have happened? I think definitely that those new high-rise developments are probably less attractive now often to the new investor.
Previously, they were, I guess, encouraged by depreciation benefits, by in Victoria, for example, stamp duty savings. A lot of those things have sort of dissipated a little bit in recent years in terms of the way they sort of tax advantage. As you mentioned, there's a lot of concerns about quality down the track.
You're buying off the plan and you're not necessarily going to be 100% sure of what the end result is. So I think a lot of people are either going with trusted builders where they know the product's going to be good at the end or in smaller projects.
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Chapter 5: Why are buyers being cautious with mortgages now?
And the CoreLogic pain and gain report shows that there were fewer loss-making sales in the Brisbane council area. Brisbane seems to still be pushing through on the positive slate. It does. And Brisbane was affected by low overseas migration, but it's had a huge number of COVID migrants coming north from Sydney and Melbourne over there.
And so it hasn't had the same challenges from a vacancy perspective that some of those pockets of Melbourne and Sydney have. And I guess it's always, we should point out that it's always good to have perspective because loss-making sales are rare overall. Sellers made a profit on 93.8% of resales in the June quarter across Australia. So it isn't all negative in the bigger picture. No, no.
Obviously, some locations do better than others. But also, it also just highlights that the longer you hold the property, the more likely you have a capital gain. And a lot of those locations are likely to have people who've held on to it. A lot of those resales are likely to represent people who've held on to those properties for two, three, four, five years and longer.
So the longer you hold on to it, the more likely you are to experience a capital gain. It's the real estate podcast across Australia, seven days a week.
We know about the romance scammers out there, and Netflix really did educate a lot of people with the Tinder swindler, which was pretty obvious to watch this guy at the centre of the documentary, but he had the attraction of girls thinking that he was a high roller with the way that he was representing himself, and that is probably the key to it, Cassandra. Absolutely.
So when Netflix released that documentary earlier this year, for me, I was, I guess, having a mainstream moment for a lot of my friends and family and those who have been aware of the research I've been doing, but not really understood it.
And I think what was great about the Tinder swindler was it did demonstrate, I guess, the different techniques that Simon was using in order to present this image of power, of status, of wealth, and how he was able to groom and manipulate several women into giving him I think it was tens or if not hundreds of thousands of dollars. Yeah.
And the power, it's a power play because while I was watching it thinking, how could you be sucked in by this person? Because the guy, in terms of his personality, he was just so fake with the way that he was doing it. But I think You look at social media and the way that people hobnob, and this is people that actually have money that are very flashy.
They like showing off on their Instagram accounts. They might have bought a new car. This kind of just helped people dovetail into this whole lie, this conspiracy of fraud with what he was doing. It's certainly very challenging from the outside to watch a documentary like that or to have friends or family that are going through the experience.
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