Property Investment – how to find, buy and hold a profitable portfolio

Presented By: David Airey (REIA President),  Bryce Holdaway (Capital 360), Rick O’Shea (PIPA), Ian Cornell (REIWA)
Location: Property Investor Stage
Date:Saturday 19 March 2011
Time: 2:45 pm – 3:30 pm
Price: FREE

If you’re looking to buy an investment property in the next 12 months, you simply can’t afford to miss the Property Investment Panel.

Headed by the Real Estate Institute of Australia’s (REIA) President, Mr David Airey, the panel of experts will discuss strategies for investing in property; from finding the ideal location to managing and making the most of your investment.

Time will be allocated for visitors to fire questions at these leading experts and key topics that will be covered include:

- Identifying properties for investment
- Building a long-term strategy
- Does the location affect your return on investment?
- The benefits of negative and positive gearing an investment
- Borrowing options when purchasing an investment property
- How to use a deposit bond
- What you need to know about buying off the plan
- Buying and selling by auction or private treaty
- Using a buyer’s agent

David Airey - REIA
David Airey joined the REIA Board in 2006 and was elected as REIA President in April 2009. He is a licensed Real Estate & Business Agent and a Licensed Auctioneer. He has been a member of the REIWA Council since 2003, is a member of the REIWA Finance Committee and was elected Vice President REIWA in 2006.

David commenced his career in the real estate industry in  1973 and now with over 30 years experience in every facet of the industry, greatly enjoy the challenges of listing and selling property for a wide range of valued clients.

David’s current business, Airey & Associates is a diversified suburban full service agency practice dedicated to selling high quality property in the Western suburbs of Perth.

Bryce Holdaway, CAPITAL 360, B.Com (Accounting & Finance), Dip. FP (Financial Planning), Experienced Property Strategist & Buyers Agent.

A National Property Strategist with CAPITAL 360, and co-host of Relocation, Relocation Australia (on the lifestyle channel) – Bryce brings over 13 years’ experience as a Property Investment Strategist to the CAPITAL 360 Team. He has been actively assisting investors nationally and internationally purchase property in Western Australia, New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland and Tasmania in this time.

With considerable experience in property investment acquisition along with his accounting & financial planning background coupled with his personal knowledge as a property investor, he helps his clients become high net worth property investors and prides himself on making property concepts simple and easy to digest. Bryce is a frequent guest speaker at various national events.

Malcolm Allan (Rick) O’Shea JP (QUAL) QPIA® has been involved in buying, selling and managing property for 30 plus years. After working as the QLD Manager for another Property Investment Company for 8 years, in 2004 Rick founded QPS Investment Group Pty Ltd, a company which focuses on providing a high level, personalised service selling investment properties to a predominately Military client base.

Rick joined the Army at 16 years old and trained at the Army Apprentices School at Balcombe Victoria, as a motor mechanic. He was a Warrant Officer Class 2 in RAEME when he discharged from the Army in 1979.

After his discharge Rick worked as a Sales Representative and Property Manager in the South West of Sydney in the 1980’s in both residential and commercial property where he gained a great deal of experience in both sales and property management. He has since been involved in many different aspects of property construction and development including renovation of old houses, construction of new houses and land development.

Rick is currently a Board Member of the Property Investors Professionals of Australia (PIPA) and has completed the Qualified Property Investment Advisor Course (QPIA)

Rick and his wife own a multimillion dollar residential investment property portfolio. All properties are in South East Queensland and Rick believes that SE QLD is the best investment potential in Australia for at least the next decade for median priced family homes.

Rick’s interests include piloting his own light aircraft, adding to his C.J. Dennis book collection and spending time with his wife Julie.

Ian Cornell, Michael Johnson & Company – Duncraig
Ian has over 30 years of hands-on agency practice at Professionals Michael Johnson & Co, Mt Lawley, Duncraig and, more recently, Morley. He is a keen advocate of compulsory professional development for agents.
Ian regards ‘affordability’ for both for buyers and renters as one of the greatest challenges for agents in the next few years. Ian believes that this issue will have a combined financial and social impact on practitioners and their staff and they will be expected to offer up new skills to address this.

Ian believes that the greatest impediment to achieving the “great Australian dream” sits squarely on the shoulders of state governments, in particular WA’s very high rate of stamp duty, unfair land tax and the “insidious penalty on employment – payroll tax”.

Property management is an area Ian feels strongly about and he is keen to improve the profile, status and reputation of property mangers both within REIWA and in the wider community