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10/06/2026

You can have 12,000 approved lots and still not be able to build anything, if you haven't brought the community with you.

Tweed Shire is the second or third most biodiverse place in Australia. It has a community that turned arguments over building a hospital into a public battle.

Height limit fights over Kings Cliff have run for years. High-rise proposals that would "bring the Gold Coast down" have been shut down, loudly, by locals who know exactly what they moved there to escape.

And they're not wrong to push back. That tension, between housing supply, environmental protection, and cultural identity, is exactly what makes development in places like Tweed slow, complicated, and expensive.

For investors, that's actually a signal worth reading carefully. Markets where communities resist overdevelopment don't get flooded with new supply.

They preserve scarcity. And constrained supply, combined with genuine liveability, is what sustains long-term price growth.

Councillor James Owen , Tweed Councillor and local real estate agent, explains the balance in this episode. It's one of the more nuanced property conversations we've had on this podcast.

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Watch the full episode on your favourite streaming platform!


General information only. Not financial, legal, or investment advice. Seek professional advice before making any investment decisions. Past performance is not a reliable indicator of future results.

09/06/2026

The suburb most people think of as a regional escape now has a median house price higher than Sydney.

Casuarina, Tweed Shire: $2.2 million median. That's above the Sydney-wide median.

Banora Point, traditionally the affordable, inland option, is now commanding $1,250/week in rent on a four-bedroom home.

The "sell your Sydney place and bank the difference" arbitrage has closed. People who made that move a decade ago did extremely well. People doing it now are discovering that parts of Tweed aren't cheap anymore, they're just differently located.

What does that mean for investors? It means the entry-level opportunity has shifted into the suburban pockets most people haven't looked at yet, established homes, mild renovation upside, and a rental market with almost no vacancy.

You can still find yield in this region. You just need to know which postcodes still have room to move.

That's what we do.

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Watch the full episode with Councillor James Owen on your favourite streaming platform!


General information only. Not financial, legal, or investment advice. Seek professional advice before making any investment decisions. Past performance is not a reliable indicator of future results.

09/06/2026

$1,250 a week rent.

In Banora Point. That's not a beachfront suburb.

That's an inland, traditionally "retiree" area and it's commanding some of the highest rental yields in the country right now.

I sat down with Councillor James Owen , Tweed Shire Councillor and local real estate agent, and what he shared about the Tweed rental market should be on every investor's radar.

Vacancy is near zero. Two-bedroom units are going for $780/week.

There's virtually no new stock coming to market. And younger families are now moving to suburbs like Banora because beach-adjacent areas have priced them out at $1.8M+ medians.

That demographic shift is what drives sustained rental demand, not hype, not headlines.

When supply is constrained and demand is structural, the numbers follow.

That's not speculation. That's how rental markets work.Watch the full episode for the complete picture on Tweed.

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General information only. Not financial, legal, or investment advice. Seek professional advice before making any investment decisions. Past performance is not a reliable indicator of future results.

07/06/2026

Jordan had just finished reading a book about a guy who bought 250 properties in 3 years, when he walked into the bank for his 4th.

The answer was: no.

This was pre-Royal Commission. Lending was looser than today. And the bank still said no.

That moment is when he learned what most investors don't until it's too late: the market doesn't decide when your portfolio stops growing. Your borrowing capacity does.

Jordan didn't quit. He worked out the structure, the timing, the income mix. And kept going.

But the lesson stuckā€¦ most portfolios don't fail. They get capped. And almost always, it's predictable years in advance.

If you want yours mapped before you hit the wall, book a Investment Roadmap Session: https://searchpartyproperty.com.au/free-investment-roadmap-session/

*General information only. Not financial advice. Past performance is not an indicator of future performance.

06/06/2026

Property is a 60-year game. Jordan is 10 years in.

In that decade heā€™s watched interest rates collapse during COVID, climb hard the year after, negative gearing get debated three times, and the lending environment swing from 8x income to 5.5x and back.

Right now there's noise about CGT changes, negative gearing reform, APRA serviceability shifts. There will be more.

Here's the thing, the investors who win aren't the ones who time policy perfectly. They're the ones who build a portfolio that survives policy.

That means data-led buying. Strong fundamentals. Genuine yield. Capital growth drivers that don't depend on a tax write-off.

Ride the waves. The asset class still works. You just have to invest like an investor, not a speculator.

Book a Property Investment Assessment, link in bio.


* General information only. Not financial advice. Past performance is not an indicator of future performance.

05/06/2026

Here's what the headlines aren't telling you.
Under the new rules, you can't offset property losses against your wages. But you don't lose the deduction.

The losses carry forward. They sit on the property. They offset rental income once the property turns positive.

If you bought on fundamentalsā€¦ strong yield, real growth drivers, sensible leverage, you'll recover every dollar of deduction. It's a timing shift, not a write-off.

If you bought purely chasing a tax refund, that was always speculation dressed up as strategy.


*General information only. Not financial advice. Consult a qualified tax professional. Past performance is not an indicator of future performance.

05/06/2026

Most people calculate retirement off the wrong number.

They look at today's incomeā€¦ say $250K household, inflation-adjust it 30 years out, and decide they need $500K a year to retire.

So they over-target. They over-leverage. They build a portfolio chasing a number they don't actually need.

Sit down and do the real exercise. Kids are grown. Cars paid off. No school fees. What does the life you actually want cost?

For most clients we work with, the answer drops from $250K to $180K. Suddenly the 30-year target is $360K, not $500K. The portfolio you need is smaller, more achievable, and significantly less stressful to build.

Strategy starts with the number. Get the number wrong and everything downstream is wrong.

Book a Property Investment Roadmap Session, link in bio.


*General information only. Not financial advice. Past performance is not an indicator of future performance.

04/06/2026

Most investors don't get capped by the market. They get capped by their borrowing capacity.

For most people, that's roughly 6x your income. Buy the big principal place of residence as a couple on $200K combined, and suddenly your $1.2M of capacity is gone before you've bought a single investment.

This is why people stop at one. Not because property stopped working. Because the maths did.

The fix is mapping your borrowing capacity before you commit, not after.

If you don't know what yours looks like in 5 years, that's the conversation to have.

Book a free strategy session: https://searchpartyproperty.com.au/free-investment-roadmap-session/
Jordan de Jong

*General information only. Not financial advice. Past performance is not an indicator of future performance.

04/06/2026

I believe, in 12 months, we'll be having a very uncomfortable national conversation about rents.

Investor supply will tighten under the new lending rules. Established stock loses the negative gearing offset. New build appetite increases but supply takes years to catch up.

Demand doesn't fall in line with all of thatā€¦ it keeps growing.

The investors who come out ahead from here aren't the ones with the biggest portfolio.

They're the ones with a written, data-led strategy, not a tax assumption holding the whole thing together.

Because it's not about the property. It's about your plan.
If you want help building yours, book a free strategy session: https://searchpartyproperty.com.au/free-investment-roadmap-session/


*General information only. Not financial advice. Past performance is not an indicator of future performance.

03/06/2026

48 million searches for the word "grandfathering" the week after the Budget.
Nobody knew what it meant. Now everyone needs to.

In short: if you bought your property before 12 May 2026, you're locked into the old rules. Full CGT discount. Full negative gearing. Nothing changes for that asset.

If you buy from now onā€¦ different game.

John explains exactly what's grandfathered, what isn't, and the strategic implications for investors with mixed portfolios.


*General information only. Not financial advice. Consult a qualified tax professional. Past performance is not an indicator of future performance.

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