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The Home Run Podcast

If you are in Australia looking to buy a home for the very first time, this podcast is for you. This show is for those who are boldly chasing their dreams to become homeowners and for them to do so in a smart, practical, and strategic way. Let seasoned mortgage broker, Michael Nasser, guide you through the ins and outs of home buying. Get access to expert tips, insights, and other information as well as interviews with the movers and shakers of the property market today.

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The key to buying your first property is a strong team

Jade Fitzgerald is the Principal and Owner of Ideal Buyer’s Agency. Ideal Buyer’s Agency works with prospective home buyers who are lost in the weeds of the process to help them find their forever home. In this episode, Jade expresses why she’s passionate about helping first-home buyers, how to make the most of a buyer’s agent’s services, and the best way to buy a property when you can’t look at...

New Year, New Home: Bringing the lessons of 2023 into 2024

New Year, New Home: Bringing the lessons of 2023 into 2024

To get you through the dog days of summer, we have more excellent advice from our property wizards! In this episode, Molly Benjamin will talk through the power of mindset when buying property and building your wealth. Kent Lardner shares his feelings about the current fixation on the dollar value of property and how research shows we need to invest in more social housing. Dr Nicola Powell...

New Year, New Home: How to land your first property in 2024

New year, new home? To kick off the year, we’re bringing you a very special episode of The Home Run. We’ve rounded up some of the best tips we heard in 2023, to help you gear up for the property market in 2024. In this episode, you’ll hear from some of our favourites. Jarrod McCabe from Wakelin Property Advisory breaks down the property ladder. Amy Lunardi shares her tips for what you should do...

What you need to know about rentvesting

Julie Crockett is the Director of Australian Property Investment Solutions (API). When Julie realised her job as a teacher was leaving her with barely any superannuation, she changed careers and started investing in property. Now, Julie focuses on giving people the tools they need to build wealth by making strategic and well-informed investment property purchases. In this episode, Julie explains...

Why renovating might be your best move for your first home with Jo Vadillo and Michael Nasser

Why renovating might be your best move for your first home

Jo Vadillo is the Director of Advocate Property Services and Property Women. She works as a Buyer’s Agent, Investment Strategist, and Property Coach to help everyone achieve their goal of owning property. She started her career buying, renovating, and selling houses and wants to help others do the same. In this episode, Jo runs us through how renovations can add value to a property, some tips for...

How a good conveyancer can save you money with George Morison and Michael Nasser

How a good conveyancer can save you money

George Morison is the General Manager for AB Morison Conveyancing. AB Morison Conveyancing is one of the largest conveyancing firms in Victoria and their goal is to make the property buying process as seamless as possible for everyone involved. In this episode, George explains what a conveyancer is, why you need one, and why you should look at hiring a conveyancer much earlier in the home-buying...

Ways to accelerate the saving of your deposit with Kim Northwood and Michael Nasser

Ways to accelerate the saving of your deposit

Kim Northwood is an Investor, Entrepreneur, and the Author of 'Work Less, Make More: The Millennial Guide to Financial Freedom.' Kim is passionate about educating people on their personal finances and understanding the risks of financial insecurity. In this episode, Kim is back to break down one of the more complex ways of saving a deposit: investing. Investing can help you save for a deposit...

How changing your mindset can help you buy your first property with Molly Benjamin and Michael Nasser

How changing your mindset can help you buy your first property

Molly Benjamin is the Founder of Ladies Finance Club and the Author of “Girls Just Wanna Have Funds”. From a casual idea in Molly’s living room with friends, Ladies Finance Club has changed the lives of women all over the world by building a supportive community of women who are taking control of their finances and having fun doing it. In this episode, Molly explains how to make financial...

How decades of inaction is causing pain for renters today

Kent Lardner is the Director of Suburb Trends, a property research firm that utilises statistics to rank the top streets in every suburb of Australia. You may remember Kent from our recent episode ‘Why the property price drop you're expecting may not be coming’, where he explored the trends he was seeing in house prices across Australia. In this episode, Kent returns to unpack the Rental Pain...

Why buying a house is different in today’s economy with Kim Northwood and Michael Nasser

Why buying a house is different in today’s economy

Kim Northwood is an Investor, Entrepreneur, and the Author of 'Work Less, Make More: The Millennial Guide to Financial Freedom.' Kim is passionate about educating people on their personal finances and understanding the risks of financial insecurity. In this episode, Kim explains how buying a house is different to younger generations, and why these differences inspired him to write his book. He...

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Meet the host

Hi there!

In case you are wondering who this new guy is… yes, my name is Michael Nasser!

I am a mortgage broker for over 10 years and along with my passion for supporting homebuyers in finally achieving their dream home, is my love affair with conducting talks and interviews. I told myself, “Why not combine the two?” Hence, The Home Run Podcast.

This show has been carefully designed to discuss all things there is to empower first home buyers and to make them confident with every step that they take whilst traversing the home buying process.

Enjoy the new episodes that we launch every other week. Thank you for visiting and I am so glad that you are here.

Your host,
Michael

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