Property, Straight Up
Property, Straight Up
Melbourne property is confusing enough without someone making it more complicated. This podcast tries to do the opposite.
Hosted by Mel Dennis and Warwick Brookes — buyer's and vendor's advocates with thirty years on both sides of the Melbourne market — each episode tells you what's actually going on. Market movements, suburb spotlights, auction tactics, off-market opportunities, buying and selling strategies. What's working, what isn't, and what we'd do if it were us.
Mel and Warwick also sit down with people who know this market from the inside — agents, brokers, builders, planners, economists, developers. Not for the talking points. For the real conversations that don't usually make it to the listing description.
Whether you're buying your first home, selling the family house, or figuring out your next move — this is Melbourne property, given to you straight.
New episodes every week. Find us wherever you get your podcasts.
Episodes
12 episodes
Wills, Super and Title: Where Your Property Really Goes When You Die
Only around half of Australians have a will, and half the people who think they know how their property is held are wrong. In this episode, Mel Dennis sits down with Tracey Collins, Accredited Specialist in Wills and Estates Law at Collins Lawy...
The Planning Changes Reshaping What Your Property Could Be Worth
Most property owners have no idea what the planning controls on their land actually allow, or what they could allow in the future. In this episode of Property, Straight Up, Warwick Brookes talks with Laurie Rigoni, founder of Terrain Consulting...
The Market Is Splitting in Two: What Sellers Are Getting Wrong Right Now
Warwick Brookes sits down with Luke Sacco, Partner at Nelson Alexander's Northcote office, for a frank conversation about nearly three decades in real estate and what's really happening in Melbourne's property market right now. From the widenin...
Downsizing Without the Overwhelm | Robyn Strickland, Love It or Leave It
Downsizing is not just a property decision, it is one of the most emotionally complex transitions people face. In this episode, Mel Dennis talks with Robyn Strickland, founder of Love It or Leave It, about what really happens when someone lets ...
Maximising Your Investment: The Difference Between Average and Great Returns
Buying the right property is only half the equation. In this episode, Mel Dennis sits down with Nicola Michels, Senior Business Development Manager at Longview, to talk about what great property management actually looks like, what investors ge...
The Property Tax Mistakes Costing Investors Money
Most property investors leave their tax planning until it’s too late, and it ends up costing them. In this episode of Property, Straight Up, Warwick Brookes talks with Christie Morris, an accountant and tax agent at Semmens Partners Accountants...
The Property Mistakes That Cost You When a Relationship Ends
Most people don't think about what happens to their property in a separation until they're already in one. In this episode of Property, Straight Up, Mel Dennis talks with Claire Walczak, an accredited family law specialist and partner at Lander...
The Mistakes That Sink Property Settlements (And How to Avoid Them)
In this episode of Property, Straight Up, host Mel Dennis sits down with Inna Segal, director of RET Conveyancing, to talk about what can go wrong when buying or selling property and how to make sure it doesn't happen to you.Inna has ove...
Inside the Data: What Cotality's Economist Really Sees
In this episode of Property, Straight Up, host Warwick Brookes sits down with Gerard Burg, economist at Cotality (formerly CoreLogic), for a data-driven conversation about what is actually happening in Australian property right now.Gerar...
Buy, Sell or Hold. The Bigger Financial Picture.
In this episode of Property, Straight Up, host Mel Dennis sits down with Scott Mitton from Secure Invest to explore one of the most common traps in property — making buy, sell, or hold decisions without looking at the bigger financial picture.<...
The Bigger Picture: Policy, Regulation & Victoria's Property Market
In this episode of Property, Straight Up, host Mel Dennis steps back from the transaction table to look at the forces shaping Victoria's property market from the top down.Mel sits down with Toby Balazs, CEO of the Real Estate I...
Demystifying Property Finance
In this episode of Property, Straight Up, host Mel Dennis from Domain & Co sits down with Nathan Murphy, mortgage broker at Blue Rock, to demystify property finance from understanding what you can actually borrow, to structuring your lendin...
