Podcast: Urban Property Investor

The Urban Property Investor podcast with host Sam Saggers brings together the latest news, strategies and ideas to help grow your personal wealth from investing in real estate. With a major premise to help you join the 1% of people who achieve financial independence, Sam Saggers advocates ways to replace your income, invest in property and retire rich using trends that form part of the urban landscape.

UPI 20: Australia’s #1 Place To Invest

Where is the number one place to invest in Australia? Most people would say Sydney. And if not, then Melbourne would come second. But really, if you want to invest in a city that is 80 years behind Sydney, and has an incredible growth curve ahead of it, …

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UPI 19: How To Ride The Real Estate Wave

Are you ready to ride the next big wave of real estate? Most people are looking for the big wave, but I’m here to tell you the undercurrent is where the money’s made. Being able to understand the undercurrent of real estate – which I outline on this epis…

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UPI 18: The Secret Language of Real Estate

There is a secret language to real estate that most investors do not know. Knowing that most real estate is not worth touching, how do you then listen to the “secret language” of properties that are desirable. This episode explains this secret language s…

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UPI 17: Create Wealth With Smart Cities

More than one quarter of all suburbs in Australia are considered “smart”. Do you know what that means? If not, then this episode will explain all.
When I went to school, one in ten students went on to get an undergraduate degree. These days, it’s at 50%!…

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UPI 16: How To Create Capital Growth

Even though it’s the toughest of times for so many, economic downturns signify a new era of wealth building and represent an incredible opportunity to achieve capital growth. 
This episode is dedicated to outlining how capital growth will be 20% + by 202…

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UPI 15: The Rebirth Of Real Estate

Urban Rebirth is happening right in front of our eyes, never more so than during COVID-19. 24 hour cities, so long a normal part of Europe are on the agenda for Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane. To understand how this shapes your investing decisions, think…

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UPI 14: Phygital World

22 million out of Australia’s 25 million live in the urban world. From capital cities and large regional centres, most of us live very close together. And that won’t be changing anytime soon. 
And whilst many people are working from home at the moment, t…

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UPI 13: Milking the Foreign Cash Cow for Real Estate Wealth

There are five groups of home buyers that create a boom market in real estate. They are – 
1) First home buyers2) Downsizers3) Upgraders4) Investors and 5) Foreign investors. 
When all of those groups shop at once, you have a feeding frenzy, also known a…

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UPI 12: Back To The Future: Space vs Place

Get ready for a trip back to the future! This episode is a bit of a brain bender in that you may never think of real estate in the same way ever again!
If you grew up with a room full of records, a shelf full of videotapes or DVDs or a shelf full of book…

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UPI 11: Gentrification: Turning Ugly Ducklings Into Beautiful Swans

Gentrification: Turning Ugly Ducklings Into Beautiful Swans
We’ve hit double figures on the Urban Property Investor! Welcome to episode 10 – I’m beginning to feel all grown up in podcast land!
Today we’re talking gentrification. How some suburbs turn int…

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