{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/6a7a3151c399196b515e6d40/6ab1e9920dd57a138593910e?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Growing up with more month than money | Steve Maserow","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/6a7a3151c399196b515e6d40/1790059544917-b4e4109c-4bdb-4c12-be42-e312c582111c.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>Steve Maserow has spent nearly forty years in real estate, but he traces his whole relationship with money back to a belief formed at home: that there was never quite enough of it, and it had to be worked hard for. Host Rishi Ankus sits down with the Barfoot &amp; Thompson Howick branch manager to talk about growing up in a hard-working, cash-tight family in Johannesburg, and how responding to a classified job ad led him to becoming a commission-only agent at nineteen. Steve talks candidly about selling real estate through the end of apartheid, including the first time he sold a home to a Black buyer in a neighbourhood they'd once been barred from, and about starting over from nothing when he emigrated to New Zealand in 1998. It's a conversation about the values that get set at the kitchen table and how they make an impact throughout your life.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h2>Highlights</h2><ul><li>Steve grew up believing there was never quite enough money to go around, right down to never leaving a light on in an empty room to save power, and that belief has shaped how he viewed money throughout his life.&nbsp;</li><li>He fell into real estate in Johannesburg almost by accident, taking an unpaid, commission-only assistant role in a suburb where nobody knew him, and went on to outsell his own lead agent.</li><li>Selling through the end of apartheid, he remembers the first time he sold a home to a Black buyer, in a neighbourhood they'd once only been allowed to walk through, not live in.</li><li>He calls himself a financial refugee for a stretch after emigrating to New Zealand in 1998, negotiating for a desk and a phone and starting his career again from zero at thirty.</li><li>Six months after joining Barfoot &amp; Thompson's Meadowbank branch as an unproven \"new boy\", he was the branch's top agent, missing the year's overall top spot by less than $100 in commission.</li><li>Growing up he learned one rule that still runs his business today: if you say you're going to do something, do it.</li></ul><p><br></p><h2>Timestamps</h2><p>[01:02] What home looked like growing up in Johannesburg</p><p>[02:46] The belief about money that started in that home</p><p>[04:27] Falling into real estate almost by accident</p><p>[09:11] Selling through the end of apartheid</p><p>[12:03] Emigrating to New Zealand and starting over at Barfoot &amp; Thompson</p><p>[18:42] The one rule he grew up with, do what you say you'll do</p><p>[21:53] Buying his first New Zealand home in Mount Wellington</p><p>[23:43] Advice to his younger self, and the Lotto property question</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><h2>Guest bio</h2><p>Steve Maserow has been Branch Manager at Barfoot &amp; Thompson Howick since 2005. He joined real estate in Johannesburg at nineteen, answering a classified ad for a commission-only salesperson with no real idea what it involved, and spent a decade building a business there before emigrating to New Zealand in 1998. Under his leadership, Howick has been named Branch of the Year multiple times. Steve himself has ranked among Barfoot &amp; Thompson's top branch managers nationally every year since 2022.</p><p><br></p><h2>Host bio</h2><p>Rishi Ankus is General Manager – Sales at realestate.co.nz, New Zealand's longest-standing property portal, running since 1996, before Google even existed. Today it connects millions of Kiwis with homes, rentals and commercial spaces every month. Rishi leads the team that works directly with real estate agents and agencies right across the country, which keeps him close to the industry's day-to-day pulse, shifting sentiment on the ground, who's moving where.</p><p><br></p><h2>Links</h2><p>•\tbarfoot.co.nz/our-people/smaserow</p><p><br></p><p>If Steve's money mindset had you nodding along, follow It all starts here wherever you get your podcasts.</p><p><br></p><p><br></p>","author_name":"realestate.co.nz"}