Australian Property Investor

Matt is the founder and Director of Sharp Property Buyers. Raised on the NSW Central Coast, he has been passionate about the property market from a young age. After purchasing his first property ten years ago, Matt has continued to build a robust property portfolio both locally and across Australia. Matt’s experience and local market knowledge sets him apart from the rest, he knows every inch, corner and crevice of the Central Coast. Matt is a proud member of PIPA, and a QPIA.In this episode we hear about his passion for the Central Coast and how no matter where he roams, the waves bring him right back home. He shares his idyllic childhood and the NRL dreams he entertained before landing in the corporate world, which opened his eyes to an entirely different way of life. We’ll also hear how rugby league influenced the way he runs his business now, and the family investment he spearheaded from a young age, catapulting him into the career of his dreams.

Jarrod Mahon is the managing director of Investors Edge Real Estate. He had a difficult start to his young adult life, receiving bad grades at school and being told he was unable to take the tertiary entrance exams. However, with his family by his side, he made a quick turn around towards success and was able to choose any university course. From there, he went on to become an engineer but eventually, he transitioned into property investment.Mahon has found success from the start of his property investment journey and in this episode, he will share how he made an $85,000 profit from his first deal. As well as this, hear about the value of a good property manager and the experience that changed his world outlook.

Full Circle Finance Founder & Director Morgan Bushell left his 10-year corporate career at Commonwealth Bank of Australia at age 31 to build his property portfolio and mortgage broking business. With an impressive and colourful professional journey from part-time bank teller to full-time banking analyst to mortgage broker, he recounts all the highs and lows of his property investing experience as he gives insight on the current number of properties in his portfolio and the nail-biting challenges life has thrown him so far.Clearly passionate about finance and property, he now uses his solution-oriented approach to help clients make their own property dreams come true.

Proving himself a true consistent hard worker equipped with grit and determination, successful mortgage broker and Full Circle Finance Founder and Director Morgan Bushell built a multi-state property portfolio by age 28. Living out his property investing days like the proverbial 'early bird who catches the worm', he consistently emphasises the value of cultivating work-life balance and keeping a structured schedule as he navigates and overcomes potential mental hills in his professional career.Today, he aims to empower and help his clients use proven property strategies that could take them one step closer to property success sooner rather than later. 

Rob Flux is a property developer, educator, and mentor as well as founder of Australia’s largest property network group Property Developer Network. His personal and professional journeys have intertwined throughout the years, starting from purchasing his family home from his parents as a teenager to starting his thriving network group through a conversation with friends sharing their property experiences.In this episode of our 'Investor vs. Developer' series, Flux gets down to the details of the massive impact that mindset plays in our lives and highlights the importance of self-belief. He cuts through the clutter and noise of property myths and addresses the misconceptions and limiting beliefs that countless property developers find themselves facing on the road to potential property success. Plus, he underscores the irreplaceable value of doing the work and making the time in your property journey.

Tyron Hyde is the CEO of Washington Brown, one of Australia’s oldest and most well-known quantity surveying firms. Having worked there for more than 30 years and being in the industry nearly 40 years now, he not only knows the company inside out, but also has keen property depreciation know-how and a wealth of knowledge about the industry that is hard— if not impossible!— to rival.In this special episode, he outlines six timeless and key lessons he has learnt from walking side-by-side with billionaire property developer, Harry Triguboff—including the tried-and-true secret to his success! Without a doubt, since landing his first job in his teens to becoming a prominent voice in Harry Triguboff's circle the past 27 years, he has truly proven himself a stalwart figure to both his company and clients—and to even many other investors across the Land Down Under.

High school teacher and mortgage broker Joel Warren is a man passionate about property investing as he is with moulding the young minds of his students. Since he started building his portfolio in 2012, he has deftly acquired five properties—consisting of both residential and commercial. Now equipped with the knowledge to create wealth via property investments, he is set to help others do the same.Plus, fully acquainted with the age-old adage, 'Never stop learning', he highlights the evergreen advantage and importance of listening to advice relevant to your property journey.

After reading a classic property book on fateful nights in small town motels, property investor, high school teacher, and mortgage broker Joel Warren learnt how to make money effectively work for him. With eyes wide open and hands always ready at the helm of his life, he took action and changed the trajectory of his finances for the better. Believing that knowledge is power in property investing, he now seeks to pass on to others the practical know-how he has gleaned from the past 12 years. In fact, eager to give everything his all and skillfully juggling the different hats he wears each day, he certainly doesn't hesitate to make the most of opportunity that life —and property investing—gives him.

Former Australian Defence Force army man and Abel Property Buyers Founder Mark Abel has been making equity and the location of his properties do the heavy lifting for him in his property journey since 2017. In fact, he shares how he had decidedly outfitted himself with the necessary property investing know-how when he began to develop his own strategy, which helped spur him on even at a time when his finances took a huge hit. Now with a $10 million vision on the horizon, he aims to open people's eyes to the power and freedom that property investing can grant them.