The eight frameworks Realtyex applies to every property — written down so the people you trust most can read it, challenge it, and make the call alongside you. No deal pitched in these pages. Just the system that decides what's worth pitching.
If you're holding this document, someone close to you is about to make one of the most consequential financial decisions of their adult life. This is the framework they'll be using. Push back on it. Stress-test it. Ask the hard questions.
The hardest part of property investing isn't finding a property. It's filtering out every property that looks like the right answer but quietly isn't. Every spruiker, every Sunday newspaper insert, every Instagram ad — they're all pulling on the same lever: "this one's the bargain." The job of a real investment system is to ignore the noise and apply the same framework to every deal until one of them actually clears the bar.
This document is that framework, written out in full. Eight chapters, one for each lens we apply. You'll see why we believe what we believe, what evidence backs each position, and where we explicitly disagree with the conventional advice the rest of the industry sells. We've tried to write it the way we'd explain it across a kitchen table — not the way it'd appear in a brochure.
The 2026 federal budget restructured the rules of Australian property investing. Negative gearing and the 50% CGT discount were stripped from established homes and preserved only for new builds. That single policy change has done more to clarify the right path forward than a decade of strategy articles. Most of this pack is shaped by that shift.
If you're the partner, the parent, the accountant or the trusted friend being asked to weigh in: read every chapter. Disagree where you disagree. Bring the disagreements to our next conversation. The point of this document is to make sure the person you care about isn't taking a leap on trust — they're taking it on understanding. That's a much better foundation for a 10-year hold.
Every investment property in Australia falls into one of three categories. Most retail investors get sold the wrong one for their goal — sold a Cheque when they needed a Gold, sold a Gold without the income to absorb it. Knowing which category a deal belongs to is the first filter we apply.
The category isn't about the suburb or the floorplan or the colour of the kitchen tiles. It's about the job the property does inside a portfolio. Some properties build wealth. Some pay an income. A very few do both. Confusing the three is the most expensive mistake a first-time investor makes, and it's the one the property industry profits from the most.
A Gold property is bought for capital appreciation, not yield. Think a brand-new wholesale property in a Greenfield growth corridor — Kalkallo, Lara, Yarrabilba, Tarneit. The yield sits around 4–5%, the cashflow runs $100–$200 per week out-of-pocket post-tax in the early years, and the property is expected to compound at 7–9% per annum.
The point of a Gold is not what it pays you this week. The point is what the equity looks like in year seven, when you refinance and use it to fund property #2. Gold is the engine of a multi-property portfolio.
After the 2026 budget, new-build properties are the only investor assets that still capture full negative gearing and the 50% CGT discount. Established properties — which were the backbone of the old "buy and renovate" playbook — lost both. That single policy change made the Gold archetype not just the right answer but, for most accumulation-phase investors, the only sensible one.
A Cheque property is bought for cashflow now. Older units in regional centres. Established homes in soft markets with high gross yields. The cashflow runs positive from day one — sometimes $50–$80 per week in your pocket after costs — which feels great in month one.
The problem isn't the cashflow. The problem is what doesn't happen alongside it: the asset doesn't grow. Two percent annual growth on a $500,000 property is $10,000 of equity per year. That's not enough deposit for property #2. Five years in, the Cheque investor is still on a single property; the Gold investor has redeployed equity into their second or third.
The Cheque archetype has a place — but it's at retirement-conversion stage, not accumulation stage. Once a portfolio is built and the goal flips from "grow equity" to "replace salary," Cheque-style assets earn their seat. Before that, they're a one-property trap.
A Hybrid does both: captures meaningful capital growth AND generates cashflow strong enough to hold the property at near-neutral cost. Usually a dual-key or duplex on a single title, or a premium SEQ corridor lot where rent yields are unusually strong relative to entry price.
The Hybrid is the right answer when you can find one — but Hybrids are genuinely rare. Dual-key suitable land is uncommon. Many estate covenants prohibit the build type. The complexity adds $50,000+ to the build cost and weeks to the timeline. When we find a Hybrid that meets criteria, we flag it. We don't manufacture them out of compromise lots.
The matrix below is the shorthand we use. The vertical axis is your goal; the horizontal axis is your time horizon. The cells map to the dominant archetype.
Gold dominates the matrix. That isn't a marketing slogan — it's what the maths produces once you account for what compounds (growth) versus what doesn't (yield). Cheque earns its seat after the portfolio exists. Hybrid is an upgrade on top of Gold when the right lot surfaces during the search.
What Realtyex does differently is treat the archetype question as the first question, before any specific property is shown. Get the archetype right, and the property choice almost makes itself. Get it wrong, and no amount of market timing rescues the outcome.
For the same $750,000, you can buy a wholesale Greenfield Gold asset in an outer-metro corridor, or a regional play in Ballarat or Bendigo. The decision looks like a coin-flip on price. It isn't. Three structural mechanics decide the outcome before the contract is even signed.
People must live near employment, schools and transport. Melbourne adds roughly 100,000 residents a year; most need housing in the 25–45km ring. That demand doesn't flex with work-from-home policy or interest-rate cycles — it's structural. Regional demand, by contrast, is heavily dependent on lifestyle cycles and remote-work trends. Both of those have softened since 2023.
Greenfield estates are sold by major developers — Stockland, Villawood, Lendlease, Frasers — at scale. That scale means a true wholesale lane exists: direct-developer pricing, $30–40k of embedded retail margin stripped out before contract. Realtyex operates inside that lane. Regional stock has no equivalent. Established regional houses are secondhand assets sold by retail agents through public listings. There is no wholesale price.
New-build Greenfield: stamp duty roughly $10k (land value only, because the build is a construction contract). First-year depreciation $12–15k of paper expense. First-home buyer grant eligibility in some corridors. Full negative gearing and the 50% CGT discount preserved post-2026 budget. Regional established: $26k stamp on the full purchase price. Minimal depreciation on remaining building life. Negative gearing gone.
The 2022–2025 SEQ run wasn't an anomaly — it was the mechanics playing out. 155,000 net interstate migrants flowed into Queensland. Lot releases dropped 20% in 2023. The structural undersupply met structural demand, and prices ran. Victoria now exhibits the same conditions. Lowest lot releases since 2014. Positive net interstate migration since Q3 2025. The widest Sydney–Melbourne median gap since 2012.
An allied health professional in her late 20s, first investment property, signed with Realtyex on Flourish in South Maclean, Queensland. Contract price $708,000 — a $43,000 wholesale rebate against the $751,000 retail sticker. The bank valuation came back in April 2026 at $970,000. That's a 37% gain in 15 months, on a property that hadn't even been handed over yet.
The growth came from three sources, in roughly equal parts: the wholesale margin captured at signing, the build-margin uplift between contract and completion, and genuine corridor capital growth from SEQ's structural undersupply.
The last 12 months don't tell this story — they tell the opposite. Regional Ballarat suburbs bounced harder than metro corridors. Sebastopol +13%, Wendouree +12%. Kalkallo flat at 0% over the same window. Real data, we won't hide it.
The reason regional bounced harder is straightforward: it was further below trend. Metro corridors are still mid-recovery from a deeper trough. Over a 10-year hold, structural demand engines matter more than 12-month rebounds. Wyndham and Hume are forecast to add ~285,000 net new residents by 2041 — the entire current population of Greater Geelong. Ballarat adds ~42,000 over the same window. The 25-year corridor CAGR difference (7.5–8.8% metro vs 5–6% regional) compounds to roughly double the equity over a decade.
Until 2026, the New-versus-Old question was a numbers game — stamp duty here, depreciation there, maintenance somewhere in the middle. The 2026 federal budget made it an existential one. The strategy that 83% of Australian property investors have used for decades — buy established, negatively gear, renovate, sell — was structurally broken in a single policy change.
The Federal Government removed two of the largest tax sanctuaries available to property investors — but only for purchases of established property. For new builds, both sanctuaries were preserved in full.
The policy intent appears to be making owner-occupier purchases of established homes more affordable by removing investor competition. The investor side-effect is brutal: established property is now a strategy for first-home buyers, not for investors.
The most damaging surviving belief from the pre-2026 playbook is the "$750k older house in a $1M suburb" pitch — find a rundown bargain in a good street, hold for 10 years, ride the suburb median up. This was a legitimate strategy when investor demand kept auction rooms competitive. It is now structurally dead.
When the time comes to sell that property in 5 or 10 years, the future buyer pool has shrunk by half. Investors won't touch it — they can't negatively gear it, and the CGT discount is reduced. Owner-occupiers — the only buyer pool left — don't want an old, unappealing rundown house when they can buy a crisp, modern new build for similar money. Without investor competition driving up the auction room, resale value stagnates.
Even buyers who complete their purchase before mid-2027 — who are grandfathered on the tax treatment — still wear the buyer-pool collapse at exit. The strategy is broken, not just the tax treatment.
"If your strategy right now is buying a $750k older house in a $1M suburb thinking you found a bargain — you're actually buying a dead asset. Investor attention is splitting into two extremes. Most of it is fleeing into brand-new Greenfield estates where the tax sanctuaries still exist. The middle ground — older suburban houses bought for capital growth — has no buyer pool left."
Post-budget, investor capital is splitting in two directions. Understanding which direction belongs in your portfolio is the second-most important decision after the archetype.
Investors who can't negatively gear are hunting for properties that don't need to be negatively geared. High yield, low entry price, low growth expectations. Regional Victorian centres, far-north Queensland, low-population WA towns. This is the Cheque archetype playing out at scale — and as covered in Chapter 1, it's a deposit-killer in accumulation phase.
The 83% of investors who used to buy established are pivoting into new builds in land-scarce corridors. Land scarcity in markets like SEQ and Perth was already structural — now it gets worse, because demand is being concentrated into the only assets where tax sanctuaries remain. This is the right direction. The catch: most of these investors are walking straight into retail new-build traps. They have the strategy right and the procurement wrong. (Chapter 4 is about that procurement problem in detail.)
One genuine opportunity has emerged from the budget changes that's worth flagging — even though Realtyex doesn't operate in this space. Established Sydney apartments in suburbs like Chippendale, Surry Hills, Strathfield, etc. are about to become much cheaper as investor demand evaporates.
For a young professional priced out of buying a house and tired of renting, this could be a genuine opportunity — not to invest, but to own. The advice would be: don't buy an apartment expecting it to grow. Buy because the mortgage is cheaper than the rent, you stop paying someone else's mortgage, and the home is yours. That's the right mental model for that asset class going forward.
Even before the budget changes, the 10-year economics favoured new build once you priced in depreciation, maintenance, tenant pool quality, and resale comp set. After the budget, the gap is no longer marginal — it's structural.
Net position over 10 years: new build is comfortably $200,000 or more ahead on identical entry prices, before factoring in growth differential. With growth factored in, the gap widens further. Pre-2026 the case for new build was strong. Post-2026 it's the only defensible investor choice.
The investor surge into new builds is creating a parallel wave of retail new-build scams. The strategy is right; the procurement is where most buyers get destroyed. Chapter 4 is about how to tell the two apart.
Two buyers walk into the same estate, look at the same lot, sign on the same builder. One pays $750,000. The other pays $830,000. They have no idea the difference exists. The $80,000 gap is the property industry's supply chain — and most retail buyers spend years paying for layers of it that they didn't know they were buying.
Every Australian investment property travels through a supply chain before it reaches a buyer. There are seven distinct stages, and every stage adds cost. Different buyers enter the chain at different points, and the entry point determines the final price.
The seven stages, in order: (1) Farmer or Government sells raw land. (2) A developer takes the land through approvals, civil works and subdivision. (3) A land agent earns a sales commission selling lots. (4) A builder constructs the home. (5) A project marketer packages the land+build for resale. (6) A real estate agent applies a retail markup. (7) The end buyer takes possession.
The three entry points: Wholesale buyers enter after stage 2 — directly from the developer. "Packaged" buyers (most "wholesale" claims you'll see online) enter after stage 5 — already loaded with project marketer fees. Retail buyers enter after stage 6 — having paid every middleman along the way.
Wholesale (Realtyex): You pay for the asset. Land plus materials plus labour. Nothing else.
Retail / Packaged: You pay for the asset plus the convenience plus the marketing plus the previous owner's profit plus the project marketer's cut plus the agent's commission.
Less middlemen. More equity. That's what wholesale actually means.
To make this concrete: in May 2026, Fairhaven Homes advertised the Bray 19 floorplan in Coridale Estate, Lara VIC, headline price "From $651,338*". Here's how that ad typically plays out for the buyer who responds to it, based on the documented retail-trap pattern — a pattern that repeats across the entire retail new-build sector. We're not picking on Fairhaven — this is the industry standard.
Buyer sees "From $651,338*" online. Inquires. Broker pre-approves $715,000 based on the headline. EOI signed. Land held in the buyer's name. The buyer believes they're committed to a $651k purchase. They are not.
The detailed quote arrives. Site costs +$22k. Driveway, landscaping and fencing +$28k. "Premium" inclusions to match the render +$18k. New total: $762,000. The buyer now has a $47,000 shortfall against their pre-approval.
Eight months pass while waiting for land to register. The original 90-day build-price guarantee expires. The builder re-prices: +$34,000. At frame stage, a variation demand arrives for +$80,000. The lender refuses to extend the loan.
12 months in. The buyer is paying both a mortgage on a half-built house and rent on their current accommodation. The $80k variation is negotiated down to $52k, funded via personal credit. Completion arrives 9 months late. Typical final cost: $830,000 or more on an ad that said $651,000.
This is not an edge case. This is the documented pattern of buying a retail new-build package in 2026. Investor money is flooding into new-build markets after the budget changes, and the retail industry has scaled up its marketing in response. More money pouring in means more traps, not fewer.
If you're being shown a new-build package by anyone — Realtyex included — these are the five questions that decide whether the contract is real or a marketing floor. Acceptable answers below.
Our entire operating model is built around eliminating the six failure points the retail industry profits from: the "from" price, missing site costs, unfixed build price, unnamed builder, variation clause ambiguity, and loan shortfall risk.
If we could only show you one number to evaluate a property, this would be it. The ratio of land value to total purchase price predicts roughly 80% of capital growth variance between two otherwise identical properties. Land appreciates. Buildings depreciate. The ratio decides which side of that equation you're betting on.
A house is two assets stitched together: a piece of land, and the structure sitting on it. They behave in opposite directions over time. Land appreciates because population, infrastructure and demand keep growing while supply stays largely fixed. Buildings depreciate because materials wear out and styles date.
If you buy a property where 65% of the value is the building and 35% is the land — a townhouse, say, or a small unit on a strata title — most of your purchase is in the depreciating side. The land beneath it is barely enough to drive meaningful growth. Conversely, if you buy a property where 55% is land and 45% is build, most of your money is on the appreciating side. Over a 10-year hold, the difference compounds dramatically.
At one extreme, a townhouse in an inner-ring suburb might sit at 35% land / 65% build. At the other extreme, a detached house on a 600m² lot in a growth corridor might be 60% land / 40% build. The Realtyex target zone is 50/50 to 55/45 — enough land to drive growth, not so much that build cost forces unaffordable entry pricing.
This is the question that catches most first-time investors. They see a townhouse in a sought-after inner-ring suburb, with strong rental demand and a good street, and they assume the suburb's growth profile will carry the property. It doesn't, because the suburb's growth is driven by the land value of detached homes on full blocks — and the townhouse owns a fraction of that land.
Suburb median statistics often hide this. A suburb might post +5% per year median growth, but that growth is concentrated in the houses-on-land segment. Townhouses and units in the same suburb often grow at half the rate, sometimes less.
Every package we present is designed to hit the 50/50 to 55/45 target. We do this by working backwards from lot size and build cost. On a $750,000 wholesale package, that typically means a 350–400m² lot, a 4-bed/2-bath/2-car detached home of 170–200m² internal, and a deliberate decision to skip excessive build upgrades that push the ratio the wrong way.
This is one of the reasons we will not put you into a townhouse, a duplex (unless it's a Hybrid play where dual income justifies it), or an apartment. The ratio simply doesn't work for accumulation-phase investing. We're not making an aesthetic judgement about those asset types — we're making a mathematical one.
If a deal sounds attractive but the ratio sits below 45% land, ask one question: what is the building doing for me that the land can't? The honest answer is usually "nothing — but the building is what justifies the asking price." That's the spruiker's tell, and it's why most retail packages underperform their suburb median.
A bank valuer doesn't care what you paid for the property. They care what it would sell for tomorrow, compared against completed homes in the same suburb. The valuation that comes back is the one thing that determines how much the bank will lend you. There are two patterns every investor needs to understand: how spec choices defend your valuation, and why early-cycle shortfalls are a buy signal.
Two identical houses on identical 313m² lots in the same Greenfield estate, same floorplan, same builder. One values at $680,000 at handover. The other values at $720,000. The difference is five inclusion decisions made at the contract stage.
Bank valuers comp completed homes against completed homes. If your build comes with builder-base specs — 2440mm ceilings, laminate benchtops, no driveway, no landscaping, no air conditioning, no floor coverings — the valuer sees it as half-finished and prices it that way. If your build has 2550mm raised ceilings, stone benchtops, completed driveway and landscaping, split-system AC and floor coverings throughout, the valuer comps it against finished homes and prices it accordingly.
At 90% LVR, $40,000 of valuation lift equals $36,000 of usable equity from day one — which is the deposit on property #2. This is why the Realtyex standard spec exists. Every inclusion in our standard pack is value-engineered against one of three outcomes: tenant demand (rent floor), valuation defence (equity floor), or risk hedge (insurance, compliance, maintenance).
This is the pattern most first-time investors don't see coming, and it kills more deals than any other single thing. In a Greenfield corridor that's about to run, it is completely normal to see a bank valuation come in $20,000–60,000 below your contract price. Buyers panic. Brokers stress. Most clients walk away from the deal. They shouldn't.
The reason is mechanical, not material. Bank valuers comp against completed, settled sales. In an early-cycle corridor, those settled sales are 12–18 months old — from before the current run started. The market hasn't caught up to current contract pricing yet. The comparisons lag the contracts. That's not a defect in the property; it's a defect in how valuations work.
The Brisbane 2020–2022 cycle is the canonical example. Buyers signing $700,000–800,000 contracts saw valuations come in $30,000–60,000 short across multiple Greenfield estates. The natural reaction was to back out — and many did. The ones who pushed through were the ones who outperformed.
By 2023, those same properties were valued $200,000–300,000 above the original contract. Brisbane median grew approximately 50% across the period. The valuation shortfall was a feature of being early — and being early is the entire point of the strategy.
We tell you upfront, at the Property Brief stage, that an early-cycle valuation shortfall is a likely outcome. We structure your finance with the right LVR and the right lender so that a $30–60k shortfall doesn't kill the deal. We have the broker and valuer relationships to challenge a soft valuation where genuine comparable evidence exists. The corridors we put you into are early-cycle by design — that's where the equity is. The shortfall risk is the entry fee.
The two patterns are linked: spec choices defend the valuation, and even with strong spec, early-cycle corridors will see comp lag. The right mental model is: spec is collateral against the shortfall. A property with strong inclusion choices in an early-cycle corridor will see a smaller shortfall (and a faster catch-up) than a base-spec property in the same corridor.
The clients who push through valuation shortfalls — armed with the framework above — are the ones whose deal stories end up in our case studies. The Flourish client in Chapter 2, +$262,000 equity in 15 months, signed on a property where the contract price exceeded the bank valuation at the time. That's how this works.
Every deal Realtyex presents has been modelled through PIA — Property Investment Analysis software, the same platform used by accountants and mortgage brokers across Australia. PIA isn't proprietary, it isn't a Realtyex marketing tool, and it isn't a "Realtyex calculator." It's the industry-standard model, fully auditable. Here's what comes out of it, and why the only number that matters is at the bottom.
Open any property listing online and the "estimated cashflow" figure quoted is almost always pre-tax. Take the rent. Subtract the interest, the rates, the insurance, the property management fee. The number that's left — usually negative — is what gets quoted as "out of pocket per week."
That number is meaningless. It ignores the single largest cashflow input on any new-build investment property: the depreciation refund.
Depreciation is a paper expense. The tax office allows you to claim a portion of your building's construction cost and the value of certain fittings (plant and equipment) against your taxable income each year, on the basis that those items are wearing out. The dollar value can be $12,000–15,000 in year 1 of a brand-new build. You don't actually spend that money — it's just an accounting entry.
But the ATO treats that paper expense the same as any other deduction. If your property runs at a $10,000 pre-tax loss for the year and you claim $13,000 of depreciation, your reportable taxable loss is $23,000. At a 37% marginal rate, you receive a tax refund of about $8,500. That refund is real cash, and it flips a $200/week pre-tax burn into roughly $30–60/week post-tax.
Annual gross rent — vacancy allowance — rates + insurance + water + PM fee + maintenance — loan interest = pre-tax cashflow. Add back depreciation as a paper expense = taxable loss. Multiply taxable loss by your marginal tax rate = ATO refund. Pre-tax cashflow + ATO refund = post-tax cashflow. Divide by 52 = your real weekly hold cost.
Property cashflow is one of those areas where it's tempting to build your own spreadsheet, drop in a few assumptions, and feel confident in the output. The problem is the assumptions — depreciation schedules, marginal rate cutoffs, lender stress test buffers, interest-only vs principal-and-interest treatment, holding cost allowances. Every one of these can be modelled correctly or incorrectly, and the spreadsheet doesn't tell you which.
PIA is the industry standard for a reason: it bakes in the correct treatment of every line item, it produces output that mortgage brokers and accountants recognise and can verify, and it generates audit-trail PDFs that hold up in any conversation with your own financial professionals. If we hand you a PIA report and you take it to your accountant, your accountant will know exactly what they're looking at.
Every PIA report we present runs three scenarios on top of the base case: a conservative growth scenario (5% p.a.), a base scenario (7% p.a.), and a stretch scenario (9% p.a.). We also model interest rate stress — what happens to your weekly post-tax hold cost if rates rise 1%, 2%, 3% from the assumed rate.
The point of the stress test isn't to predict the future. The point is to make sure that even in the bear-case scenario — slower growth than expected, higher interest rates than expected — the property is still serviceable from your existing income. If the bear case puts you in genuine financial stress, the deal shouldn't proceed regardless of how strong the base case looks.
We will not show you optimistic cashflow projections built on assumptions that won't survive contact with your accountant. We will not quote you a weekly hold cost based on the lowest interest rate in the market when your actual loan will be priced higher. We will not assume tenant placement on day one of handover — every projection assumes a realistic 2-week vacancy. Every assumption in every PIA report we hand you is on the page, visible, and audit-able. If your accountant or broker disagrees with an assumption, that's a productive conversation to have before you sign anything.
More first-time investor deals die from "I didn't know I needed that much cash" than from any other single reason. The right Funds to Complete number is the one shown to you on day one of the engagement — every dollar from offer to handover, with nothing hidden. Here's exactly what makes up that number, in the order you'll need each one.
For a typical $770,000 wholesale Greenfield package at 90% LVR, here's the standard funds-to-complete schedule:
The line item most retail buyers skip — and the one most likely to cause stress mid-build — is the 6-month holding cost buffer. While the property is under construction (12–14 months from contract to handover is typical), there is no rent coming in. The construction loan accrues interest from the first draw, capitalised onto the loan balance. From handover, there's typically a 1–3 week tenant placement period. Rates, insurance and water start ticking from settlement.
The buffer covers all of this. It's not optional, and it sits in an offset account against your loan, meaning the interest cost is largely offset — you keep the money, you just don't spend it. Once the first tenant is in and paying rent, the buffer remains as a portfolio safety net for any future vacancy, repair, or rate movement.
The retail package industry routinely understates funds to complete. The pattern: an EOI is signed for $5,000. The buyer is told "you'll need 10% deposit and a bit for closing costs." The real number — stamp duty, solicitor, building & pest, settlement costs, holding buffer — is presented in pieces over the following weeks, often arriving after the buyer has emotionally committed to the deal and can't easily walk away.
By contrast, the Realtyex commitment: every dollar above is shown to you at deal-match stage, before any EOI is signed, with the buffer pre-funded and verifiable. If the deal is a stretch on funds to complete, we'll tell you on day one — and either propose an alternative or recommend you wait until your savings catch up. We don't get paid to put you into deals you can't comfortably afford.
For absolute clarity: of the $106,300 funds-to-complete on the example above, $77,000 is your deposit (your equity in the property from day one). $17,300 is government stamp duty. The remaining ~$12,000 covers solicitor, building & pest, settlement and the holding buffer. Realtyex's fee is paid inside the wholesale channel, never invoiced to you (see Chapter 4) — it's not an additional line item you fund from your savings. The only amount you ever pay Realtyex directly is the $2,000 search deposit, credited in full to your property purchase at settlement.
The eight chapters above are the entirety of the Realtyex investment framework. Every deal we present has been filtered through every chapter — by the time you see a property, it has already passed the archetype test, the location test, the asset-type test, the procurement test, the ratio test, the valuation test, the cashflow test, and the funds-to-complete test. That's why we present so few.
Take this document home. Read it with the person whose financial life is intertwined with yours — partner, spouse, parent, accountant, broker. Disagree where you disagree. The list of conversations we'd recommend you have:
Session 02 builds on this document. We'll show you three specific Greenfield corridors that match your archetype and your position. Verified vacancy data, comparable sales, infrastructure pipelines, demographic profiles. Then we'll open the Property Brief — an interactive document where we lock in your spec, price band, builder register and search criteria. You'll sign it off in writing, and we'll go hunt the lot.
From there: deal-match call, EOI, contract exchange, construction milestones tracked end-to-end, handover, settlement, first tenant placed. Every step has its own touchpoint and its own commitment. You'll never wonder what stage you're at or what happens next.
General nature only. This document is provided for general educational purposes and does not constitute personal financial, taxation, mortgage or legal advice. Every individual's financial position, taxation circumstance and risk tolerance is different. You should obtain independent advice from your own qualified accountant, mortgage broker and solicitor before making any property investment decision based on the frameworks discussed here.
Projections and case studies. All financial figures and case study outcomes shown are based on inputs and assumptions current at the time of publication. Actual returns will vary based on market conditions, interest rates, vacancy, growth rates, depreciation schedules at QS assessment, and individual taxation circumstances. The Flourish case study (Chapter 2) describes a specific Realtyex client outcome and is not a representation of typical or expected returns for any other property. Past performance is not a reliable indicator of future performance.
2026 federal budget references. All references to the 2026 federal budget treatment of negative gearing and CGT discount are based on legislation as understood at the time of publication. The grandfathering window cited (mid-2027) and the specific tax treatment of new versus established property are subject to legislative review and amendment. Verify current treatment with your own accountant before relying on any tax outcome described in this document.
Growth rate references. Growth rates cited (7.5–8.8% Greenfield corridor CAGR, +50% SEQ 4-year growth, +95% Box Hill 11-year compound, etc.) are based on CoreLogic, Cotality, PropTrack and Hotspotting data as at the publication date. These rates reflect historical performance and should not be interpreted as a forecast of future returns.
Data sources. CoreLogic / Cotality (median price and growth), SQM Research (postcode vacancy data), ABS (population and migration), PropTrack (LGA fundamentals), Hotspotting (LGA reports and supercharged suburb rankings), UDIA (land supply data), Stockland investor reports (Cloverton and Gables masterplan data). Realtyex internal deal book for client case study figures.
Realtyex business model. Realtyex earns fees through direct channel access with developers and builders. Our fee structure is fully transparent to clients at engagement and is paid through the wholesale channel, not as a separate invoice to the client. The only amount a client ever pays Realtyex directly is the $2,000 search deposit, which is credited in full to the property purchase at settlement. We do not earn commissions from referrals to mortgage brokers, solicitors or property managers — our panel relationships are vetted for service quality only.
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