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For NSW commercial property owners, the window to maximise current renewable energy incentives won’t stay open forever.U...
08/10/2026

For NSW commercial property owners, the window to maximise current renewable energy incentives won’t stay open forever.

Under the NSW Peak Demand Reduction Scheme (PDRS), eligible commercial solar and battery projects can access incentives designed to reduce upfront project costs and improve the economics of transitioning to renewable energy.

For property owners, that can mean a stronger business case for turning unused rooftop space into a productive asset, while creating opportunities to reduce energy costs for tenants.

With current incentives scheduled to run through to 2030, acting earlier can mean capturing more of the available benefit rather than waiting until the opportunity has reduced or disappeared.

The roof is already there. The incentive is available now. The question is what you do with it.

Most people decide what to buy before they decide what they're building toward.These are the five questions Pat Casey an...
02/10/2026

Most people decide what to buy before they decide what they're building toward.

These are the five questions Pat Casey and financial planner Shane Kennealy work through in episode two of Inside Property Wealth. Answer them and the decisions that felt like open questions start answering themselves: how much risk to carry, how much to commit to the home you live in, what to delay, and what you won't compromise on at any price.

23/09/2026

Most people decide what to buy before they decide what they are building toward.

In episode two of Inside Property Wealth, Pat Casey sits down with financial planner Shane Kennealy to reverse that order.

Define the life you want with enough precision and it stops being a feeling and becomes a set of numbers. The income your assets need to produce. The year you want work to become a choice rather than a requirement. The things you are not willing to give up along the way.

Once those exist, you can work backwards. Target income sets the asset base. The asset base and the timeline set what has to happen this year. And the question of what to buy next, the one that felt like the hard one, turns out to be the last one you answer.

Two people with identical finances can arrive at completely different plans, and both can be right. The plan follows the person, not the balance sheet.

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"What can $408,096 invested back into an existing commercial property actually deliver?In this real-world case study, th...
21/09/2026

"What can $408,096 invested back into an existing commercial property actually deliver?

In this real-world case study, the capital was deployed into solar generation and an embedded network, creating a new income stream from the property itself.

The result:
$82,000 in Year 1 net additional income
20.01% cash-on-cash return
Before depreciation, tax and any potential equity growth

Rather than acquiring another asset, the strategy was about extracting more value from one already owned, turning previously underutilised rooftop space into an income-producing part of the property.

For commercial property owners, sometimes the next investment opportunity is already sitting above your tenants.

One property. Another income stream."

Missed the webinar? Here's the one thing to take away:The economics of commercial solar have shifted - and the businesse...
19/09/2026

Missed the webinar? Here's the one thing to take away:

The economics of commercial solar have shifted - and the businesses moving first are capturing both the savings and the incentives.

Watch the webinar here: https://youtu.be/WKLxXFDDeiw

11/09/2026

A good income is not a plan.

Most of us were taught the same sequence. Go to school, go to uni, get a good job, get paid well. And then the lesson just stopped.

Nobody covered what happens after the pay rise. What the income is actually for. How it turns into something that eventually pays you back.

Pat Casey and Scott O’Neill open the series on the five foundations of building it properly, starting with the one most people skip.

Comment FOUNDATIONS and we’ll send you the full episode.

11/09/2026

A good income is not a plan.

Most of us were taught the same sequence. Go to school, go to uni, get a good job, get paid well. And then the lesson just stopped.

Nobody covered what happens after the pay rise. What the income is actually for. How it turns into something that eventually pays you back.

Pat Casey and Scott O'Neill open the series on the five foundations of building it properly, starting with the one most people skip.

Comment FOUNDATIONS, and we'll send you the full episode.

Adding renewable infrastructure isn’t just about sustainability, it can increase property value, improve tenant appeal, ...
07/09/2026

Adding renewable infrastructure isn’t just about sustainability, it can increase property value, improve tenant appeal, and create long-term income stability.

02/09/2026

Most investors think growing a commercial property portfolio means buying the next property. It usually doesn’t. The highest-return capital is often already sitting in the asset you own, in the space that isn’t earning, and unlocking it is simpler and cheaper than buying again.
 
Scott O’Neill and co-host David Hamilton break down the value-add strategies that turn an underperforming commercial property into a stronger one, without a new loan or a new purchase. Because commercial property is valued on its income, a small lift in what an asset earns becomes a large lift in what it’s worth. A single lease renegotiation, a strip of idle space, a rezoning nobody noticed, and the valuation moves.
 
Scott works through the four levers where this plays out, from the lease itself to income from idle space and energy. David brings the developer’s eye to the value hiding in zoning, approvals and amalgamation, the kind created through paperwork, not construction.
 
Comment ‘Value-Add’ and we will send you a link to the episode.

Commercial landlords could be sitting on an income-producing asset they already own.For the right commercial property, r...
01/09/2026

Commercial landlords could be sitting on an income-producing asset they already own.

For the right commercial property, rooftop solar can create a new revenue stream, reduce tenant electricity costs and potentially increase the value of the asset, with some projects delivering cash-on-cash returns of 20% to 30%.

The opportunity is simple: generate electricity onsite at a significantly lower cost than grid power, pass part of that saving on to the tenant, and retain the balance as recurring income.

It is not suitable for every property, but where the roof space, energy usage and tenant structure align, the numbers can be compelling.

Send Rethink Renewables your tenant’s latest power bill and we can assess the opportunity.

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