Auswide Buyers Agency

02/09/2026

𝐑𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐇𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐒𝐭𝐨𝐜𝐤?

𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐭'𝐬 𝐍𝐨𝐭 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐖𝐞'𝐫𝐞 𝐒𝐞𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐧 𝐑𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐍𝐒𝐖 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐓𝐚𝐬𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐚

Recent headlines suggest that housing stock across Australia is increasing, giving buyers more choice and easing competition.

Yes, you'll see plenty of these articles because negative news tends to attract the most attention.

But it's also worth considering the perspective of the 1 million migrants who have entered the country over the past three years, along with the approximately 350,000 more expected to arrive this year. Their continued decision to move here reflects the opportunities they see despite the headlines.

While this may be true in some parts of the country, it doesn't reflect what our team is currently experiencing in many regional areas of New South Wales and Tasmania.

As buyer's agents, we actively search for investment opportunities and we're still seeing a shortage of quality properties in several regional markets. Many investment-grade properties continue to attract strong buyer interest and are often snapped up quickly when priced correctly.

This highlights an important point: property markets are local. Experienced investors know that.

National data provides a broad overview, but it doesn't always reflect what's happening in specific regions, suburbs, or property types.

In our experience, many regional markets are still characterised by:
•Limited supply of quality properties
•Strong competition from experienced investors
• Tight vacancy rates in most locations
•Only 5% opportunities that meet strict investment criteria

That's why we encourage investors to look beyond the headlines. A news article about rising housing stock may be accurate nationally, but it doesn't necessarily mean every market is experiencing the same conditions.
The best investment decisions are made using local market knowledge, real-time data, and an understanding of supply and demand in the specific areas you're targeting.

The takeaway? Don't let national headlines shape your entire view of the property market. What's happening on the ground can tell a very different story.

Have you noticed a difference between what the media is reporting and what you're seeing in your local market?

02/09/2026

Someone asked me about a $2,200 discharge fee last week.

Fair question. It's real money.

But the loan sitting underneath it carried a materially lower rate and a full offset — and over the life of that loan, the difference makes $2,200 look like a rounding error.

I'm not writing this to make fun of the question.

I asked the same kind of question for years.

I'd spend two hours comparing annual fees and miss the structural decision that was worth twenty times more. I'd research a product for a fortnight to avoid paying someone a fee to do it properly in a day.

Then something shifted.

Not my values. My maths.

I stopped asking what does this cost me?
And started asking what does it cost me to work this out myself?

Three days of my time to save $2,200 isn't a saving. It's a trade — and for a long time I made that trade without realising I was making it.

Does that mean I've lost the value of a dollar?

I don't think so.

It means I've learnt to earn more in the same hours I would have spent saving less.

The clients who move fastest aren't the ones who stopped caring about numbers.

They're the ones who worked out which numbers actually move the outcome — and got someone else to handle the rest.

30/08/2026

𝐖𝐞𝐛𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐫 𝐀𝐥𝐞𝐫𝐭: 𝐅𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭 𝐡𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐛𝐮𝐲𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐑𝐨𝐚𝐝𝐦𝐚𝐩!!

Listen from a Mortgage Broker and a Property expert who have helped 100s of First Home Buyers from begininng to the end!

What we will cover :
👉🏻 The most common myths and mistakes among first-home buyers
👉🏻 The step-by-step process of buying your first home—and why it may be easier than you think
👉🏻 Practical strategies to help you build your deposit faster
👉🏻 How government schemes and incentives may help, including a state-by-state breakdown
👉🏻 How to determine a comfortable budget—not just your maximum borrowing capacity
👉🏻 What to look for when researching and inspecting a property
👉🏻 Important checks to complete before making an offer or bidding at auction
👉🏻 How to avoid costly mistakes throughout the finance and purchasing process
👉🏻 What happens from pre-approval through to settlement

•⁠ ⁠Live Q&A from the audience

Join here : https://zurl.co/537hv

Date: 1st September

Time: 7:00 PM

Webinar: Buy Your First Home Before the Rate Cut — Not After When rates fall, every buyer's borrowing power rises at the same time. The competition you avoid today is the competition you bid against next year. In this webinar, Ashish Malhotra (Auswide Buyers Agency) and Rahul Rangwani (Finmatters)...

23/08/2026

The post about this site reached a few thousand people last week.

The question I got asked most was the one I didn't answer:

How did you decide?
So here it is.

The four tests we ran before we signed — including the one most people skip.

Swipe through 👉
Concept images only. Pre-DA stage with Penrith City Council — not approved.

19/08/2026

Coming from residential into commercial feels familiar for about ten minutes.

Then someone hands you a lease and says "it's net, with 3 + 3 + 3 and CPI reviews."

And you nod.

I've watched capable, successful investors sign contracts they couldn't fully read, because asking felt like admitting they were out of their depth.

Nobody is out of their depth. It's just vocabulary.

Eight slides. Five terms. Every one of them decides what your property is worth at the end of the lease, not the start.

Term and options
Gross vs net
Recoverable vs non-recoverable outgoings
Rent reviews
Make good

Learn these five and you'll read a commercial lease the way you already read a residential contract.

That's not a small shift. That's the difference between an investor who owns commercial property and one who understands it.

Part 1 of a series

17/08/2026

On Friday we settled the biggest deal of my life.
One acre. Orchard Hills. $3 million.

Ten weeks before the first passenger plane lands at Western Sydney International.

The airport gets the headlines. But this site sits in the Orchard Hills metro precinct — a station built specifically to service a future commercial and mixed-use precinct, opening 2027.

Freight flights started three weeks ago.

Passengers start 25 October. The metro follows.
We bought before all three.

Behind us, Legacy Property is delivering Orchard Hills North — 146 hectares, around 1,800 homes, a retail centre, a new primary school. Early stages sold out on release.

Penrith Christian School is on the same street.
1,800 households arriving. Two schools. No childcare. No medical.

That gap is the whole thesis.

Swipe for the team that got it there 👉

Concept only. Pre-DA stage with Penrith City Council — not yet approved.

Vand khao, Khand khao
Share what you have, and it comes back sweeter.

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02/08/2026

Everyone's talking about what closes on 10 August.
Here's what stays open 👇
Commercial shop, Melbourne's east.
Settled last week for our clients K and R.
$585,000 purchase.
$36,000 a year net.
6.2% net yield.
$40,000 under asking.
Long-standing tenant. Fresh three-year lease.
Same money in residential?
A tenant on maybe 3.5% gross — and a shortfall you fund yourself while you wait.
This one pays from settlement day.
Not from year seven.
The myth: commercial doesn't grow.
The truth: it grows, at times right alongside residential, while paying you the whole way through.
K and R didn't need a bigger budget.
They needed a different question.

28/07/2026

🚨 𝟏𝟕 𝐒𝐌𝐒𝐅 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐲 𝐃𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝟐 𝐖𝐞𝐞𝐤𝐬. 𝟓 𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐏𝐫𝐢𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐒𝐥𝐨𝐭𝐬 𝐍𝐨𝐰 𝐎𝐩𝐞𝐧.

SMSF investors are moving ahead of the 10 August deadline, and so are we.

We are on track to close 𝟏𝟕 𝐒𝐌𝐒𝐅 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐲 𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝟐 𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐤𝐬, helping investors secure the right opportunities before the deadline.

Due to available capacity and structured intake planning, I’ve opened 5 additional priority SMSF purchase slots for investors who are ready to proceed.

If you're considering buying property through your SMSF, don’t leave it until the last minute.

📞 𝐂𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐦𝐞 𝐭𝐨𝐝𝐚𝐲 or contact our team on 1300 22 13 13 to secure one of the remaining spots.

𝑂𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑠𝑒 𝟓 𝑠𝑙𝑜𝑡𝑠 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑓𝑖𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑑, 𝑤𝑒 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑐𝑙𝑜𝑠𝑒 𝑏𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑠.

19/07/2026

30.06 km.
3:06:54.

First time in my life. 🏃

What running costs:
- Blisters.
- Sore knees.
- Tape in places you'd rather not discuss.

What running gives:
- Resilience.
- Consistency.
- Perspective.

They arrive together. That's the whole deal.

Kilometre 24 is where your legs stop and your head takes over.

Nobody runs 30km by deciding to. You run 30km because you ran 8km on a cold dark Tuesday when nobody was watching.

5:03am start.
Done by 8:15.
Coffee at 8:30. ☕

RPD — Ruh Punjab Di. The soul of Punjab.
37 of us preparing for the TCS Sydney Marathon.
Swipe to photo 2 — runners, parents, wives, kids. Three generations on one set of steps.

How you show up for one thing is how you show up for everything.

Five years building Auswide Buyers Agency taught me what the road teaches.
- Nobody sees the 5am starts.
They only see the result.

Business has a kilometre 24 too. Most people meet it and turn around.

30 was never the ceiling. It was the floor.
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