Compound Invest

08/10/2026

⚡ The switchboard is the heart of the house. Most buyers never look at it.

They’ll pay for a building and pest report, then walk straight past ceramic fuses, timber backing and a cable hanging off a tree.

That’s why I sat down with Matthew Hassett from Hassett Electrical & Airconditioning.

Matt almost joined the cops (criminology, Goulburn training), then started a mature-age electrical apprenticeship and built a Sydney business doing residential and commercial electrical plus air con.

At Compound Invest we see this on older purchases all the time — the cheap house that snowballs once the wiring is actually opened up.

We went deep on:

🔌 Circuit breaker ≠ safety switch. RCDs have a test button. They’re there to stop electrocution, not just trip a circuit

🪵 Old boards: ceramic fuses, timber mounts (fire risk), asbestos panels, white point-of-attachment cable

🟢 Green sticky coming out of a powerpoint = a chemical reaction in the cabling. Walk away or budget for a rewire

🏠 Full rewire on a basic 3-bed single storey often starts around $6–8k. Switchboard from about $6k. Materials alone can be $1.5–2k before labour or a level 2

📉 Data centres are pulling sparkies and apprentices. Shortage + timber and material costs is why quotes don’t look like 2019

🛠️ Cheapest quote usually means Bunnings gear and a callback. Wholesale brands and one proper job costs less over time

❄️ Split systems from about $3k a room. Ducted often from about $10k — one outdoor unit, whole house, usually the better spend if you’re doing more than one or two rooms

💡 Halogens can hit ~300°C. A 30W halogen brightness is often ~5W in LED — and 30–40,000 hours if the fitting is decent

Matt’s closer: trust the switchboard advice, replace smoke alarms every 10 years, and if it’s more than a couple of rooms, ducted usually wins.

Buying an older place in Sydney (or anywhere with 50-year wiring)?

Watch this before you settle.

Got an electrical question on a purchase? Drop it below.

🔗 Compound Invest: https://www.compoundinvest.com.au/

🔗 Hassett Electrical & Airconditioning: https://hassettelectrical.com.au/services/

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24/09/2026

💰 The cheapest rate is rarely the best deal.

Most people treat a mortgage broker like a rate-shop. Then they wonder why they can’t buy the next property.

That’s why I sat down with Rebecca Morgan from My Mortgage Concierge

Rebecca’s been broking since 2006 — through the GFC, licensing, the Royal Commission, COVID and now AI loan assessment. She works closely with Compound Invest on strategy, structure and connecting the right team… not just “can we get approved.”

If you want to use your borrowing power properly (and not kill it by accident), this episode is worth the watch.

We went deep on:

🎯 A good broker isn’t a rate machine — they’re strategy + connections (property, tax, legal)

📉 Why two lenders can give you completely different borrowing capacity (APRA’s 3% buffer vs some non-banks)

🚫 Capacity killers people ignore: HECS, Afterpay/Zip, credit-card limits, salary-sacrifice cars

📄 Banks will pick one line out of 200 on your statements — and ask about it

🏦 Interest rate vs comparison rate (gross vs what you actually pay)

🏗️ Structure matters more than the headline rate — especially after the investment-lending changes

🩺 LMI waivers some professionals don’t know exist (doctors, lawyers, nurses, midwives, bank staff)

🔁 What to do when you think you “can’t borrow any more”
Rebecca’s closer: if you want to buy in the next 12 months, talk to a broker now. AI calculators won’t tell you what actually matters.
Got a lending question? Drop it below.

🔗 Compound Invest: https://www.compoundinvest.com.au/

🔗 My Mortgage Concierge: https://mymortgageconcierge.com.au/

https://youtu.be/KOlmoXJzz1E?si=ypfH5wQpB4nATGFx

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17/09/2026

⚙️ Most businesses don’t have a “software problem.”

They have a process problem.

People re-entering the same data. Excel. Emails. Shortcuts nobody mapped. A boss who thinks the report is still happening. Then they buy another SaaS tool and wait 12 months for a feature that never comes.

That’s why I sat down with Ciaran Monks from Pacer Solutions.
Ciaran’s a management accountant who spent two decades in finance, operations and leadership — Ireland, Switzerland, the Caribbean, then 14 years in Australia — before building Pacer to help SMEs take back control of their workflows.

At Compound Invest, efficiency is the difference between getting deals done and drowning in admin. Same for agents, brokers, conveyancers, tradies and anyone running a team.

We went deep on:

💥 The “SaaS apocalypse” — rent the standard stuff (Xero, payroll, email). Don’t rebuild it. Own what actually differentiates you.

🔗 Connecting the silos so your team stops uploading, downloading and double-keying all day

🗺️ Controlling your own roadmap instead of waiting for a vendor to vote on your feature

👷 Why the system should speak your language — not force the business to learn a new one

📊 The 80/20 rule: directionally right and acted on beats perfect reports nobody uses

🧱 Modular rollout (not a 6-month big-bang that most IT projects fail)

🔒 Data in one place, properly protected — then AI. Not the other way around

Ciaran’s line that stuck: you’re not trying to become a software company. You’re trying to run the business.

If your processes feel messy, your tools don’t talk, or you’re about to spend $35k on licences before anyone’s mapped how work actually happens… this one’s for you.

Got an ops question? Drop it below.

🔗 Compound Invest: https://www.compoundinvest.com.au/

🔗 Pacer Solutions: https://pacer.solutions/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFojGbS4ZD4

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10/09/2026

Sydney Inner City Architecture 🏡🏙️

Compound Invest sits down with Levi Fletcher from The City Geeks — inner-Sydney architects who only work the tight, heritage-heavy sites most people are scared to touch.

Levi specialises across five councils: City of Sydney, Inner West, North Sydney, Woollahra and Waverley. Terrace renovations, multi-residential splits, shop-top and commercial. The practice started from a simple idea: what if architects were location-based, like every other specialist?

In this episode we get into:

🧱 what an architect actually does (construction is late in the process)

📐 2.9m-wide lots, party walls, missing titles and unmarked services

☀️ how design can double or triple usable space — and why natural light can swing value 15–20%

🚗 why one car space, a park edge or a hidden harbour view changes the number

⚠️ why a sloppy DA can be used against you later

If you own a terrace, want to renovate, develop, or invest in inner Sydney — this one’s worth the watch.
Compound Invest:
https://www.compoundinvest.com.au/

The City Geeks: https://www.thecitygeeks.com/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pH1IYQ1mi2A

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07/09/2026

🎉 20,000 subscribers.

Thank you. Truly.

Eighteen months ago we started putting the unfiltered version of Australian property on YouTube — no hype suburbs, no off-the-plan spruik, just the CompoundInvest Formula, the data, and the deals. You showed up. You stayed. You asked better questions. And now there are 20,000 of you.

Over that time we’ve walked through:

📍 Melbourne — underpriced pockets, inner-west gentrification, and whether it’s still a hotspot

📍 Sydney — Eastern Suburbs, Inner West, Lower North Shore, and which streets still stack up under $1.5M–$2M

📍 Brisbane — inner-north and inner-east value, income hurdles, and where the next growth sits

📍 Perth — late-cycle winners, cheapest suburbs still worth buying, and how to read the boom

📍 Geelong — the boom that a lot of people still underestimate

📍 Newcastle, the Central Coast, and Wollongong — feeder markets with real land, real demand, and better entry points

📍 Gold Coast & Sunshine Coast — lifestyle demand vs investment fundamentals

📍 Hobart — underpriced pockets and what the numbers actually say

📍 Monthly Australian Property Market Updates and the weekly Premier Properties drop — on-market and off-market stock, growth and yield on the table, no fluff

We’ve talked about how to buy a home on an average income, the 10 factors almost nobody prices in, what higher rates actually do to suburb selection, and which suburbs people will fight over in five years.

Same thread every time: established houses, blue-chip or gentrifying locations, capital cities and their feeder markets — not apartments, not new estates, not regional hope-and-pray.
That’s also what we do every day at compoundinvest.com.au:

🏡 Data-driven buyer’s agency

📊 The CompoundInvest Formula (10+ variables, top 1% of stock)

🔑 ~48% of what we secure is off-market

📈 Target 13%+ total gross annual return vs the ~5.4% capital-city average

🤝 Strategy → acquisition → negotiate → settle — then help you scale the portfolio

If the channel helped you think clearer about property, that was the point. If you’re ready to actually buy, the Premier Properties list and a no-obligation chat are on the site.

Thank you for 20k. We’re just getting started. 🚀

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03/09/2026

👀 The better operator often loses the deal.

Not because they’re worse — because they’re invisible.

Someone refers you. The lead looks you up for 30 seconds. Google. LinkedIn. Website. If what they see doesn’t match what they were told… they ghost. No call. No reason. Just gone.

That’s why I sat down with Mark Schiralli from Own Your Mark.
Mark’s a chartered accountant who went corporate (Pitcher Partners, Vodafone, London/NY), then built a marketing agency helping professional services people — accountants, lawyers, brokers, buyers agents — turn expertise into content that actually converts.

At Compound Invest, referrals and positioning decide who gets the good deals. This episode is about how to stop leaking them.

We went deep on:

🔍 The 30-second “audition” you don’t know you’re doing

🎯 Specificity — why being vague makes you interchangeable

✅ Headlines that say how you help, not just your job title

📸 Proof, presence and looking like you showed up this year

✍️ Stories that beat “another great result for a great client”

🚫 Why reach-and-spam kills trust on high-ticket work

⚙️ Systems beat inspiration — capture, batch, schedule, engage

If you live on referrals and keep wondering why warm intros go cold… watch this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpUtSItm4IU

🔗 Compound Invest: https://www.compoundinvest.com.au/

🔗 Own Your Mark: https://www.ownyourmark.com.au/

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27/08/2026

🏗️ Commercial property isn’t just “buy a shop and collect rent.”

Cap rates. Leases. Fitouts. Heritage. Live sites. Hidden pipes. Approvals. The stuff that can add millions — or quietly blow a budget.

That’s why we sat down with Shuvra Saha from Saha Projects.
Shuvra’s a commercial builder across Sydney — warehouses, offices, car washes, heritage interiors, mixed use, even jobs inside Westfield. Projects from about $50k up to ~$10 million.

Engineering background (UNSW mining → UTS construction/PM) plus the hands-on side. ISO-accredited systems on jobs most “big builders” won’t touch.

At Compound Invest, we live in property. This episode is the other half: how commercial actually gets built — and how that changes the asset.

We went deep on:

💰 Why commercial is valued on the lease, not just the postcode — and how a smart fitout can move value fast

🏢 Cold shell vs locking yourself into one use

🧱 Live jobs: Virgin Active at Westfield Bondi Junction (pool over 5 levels of car park), Petersham Bowling Club, the old CBA building on King Street Newtown

⚠️ Hidden risks drawings miss — terracotta pipes from the 1870s, water on the wrong side of site, $100k+ in extra groundworks

📋 Biggest money mistakes: signing the lease before works/approvals, treating services as “minor,” picking the cheapest quote

If you own commercial, want to, or you’re about to sign a 300-page lease… this one’s worth it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izD6dCLEwvg

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20/08/2026

🏡 Geelong’s not just “cheaper Melbourne.”

If you’ve been watching headlines and still don’t know what’s actually happening on the ground, this episode is the deep dive.

We sat down with Jason Cook from The Agency — a Geelong local, about 8–9 years in real estate, 20 years in sales, and someone I’ve been doing deals with for 4–5 years. Cookie knows this market street by street.

We unpacked:

🔥 Why Geelong’s been running its own mini-cycles — 10–30% growth in pockets over the last 12 months, then a slowdown after rates and budget night

📉 Why it still looks like a buyer’s market right now (and why the media doesn’t tell the full story)

🧱 Where you can still buy a solid brick home on a ~500sqm block in the high $500ks

📈 Vacancy still tight, rents up, and why demand hasn’t disappeared

🚀 The population story: ~324k now, heading toward ~500k — plus Armstrong Creek and the next big growth corridor

🗺️ Real suburb talk: Corio, Breakwater, Thomson, Newcomb, St Albans Park, Belmont, Geelong West, South Geelong, Newtown and the tightly held waterfront pockets

🏖️ Lifestyle people still underestimate — Pakington Street, 15 minutes to the C*D, beaches, Bellarine, Avalon

And the big one we keep coming back to: Geelong looks a lot like Newcastle 10–15 years ago.

If you’re thinking about buying, selling or investing in the region, this one’s worth the watch.

https://youtu.be/0XG8hUh7aYo

Got a Geelong question? Drop it below.

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20/08/2026

🏡 Geelong’s not just “cheaper Melbourne.”

If you’ve been watching headlines and still don’t know what’s actually happening on the ground, this episode is the deep dive.

We sat down with Jason Cook from The Agency — a Geelong local, about 8–9 years in real estate, 20 years in sales, and someone I’ve been doing deals with for 4–5 years. Cookie knows this market street by street.

We unpacked:

🔥 Why Geelong’s been running its own mini-cycles — 10–30% growth in pockets over the last 12 months, then a slowdown after rates and budget night

📉 Why it still looks like a buyer’s market right now (and why the media doesn’t tell the full story)

🧱 Where you can still buy a solid brick home on a ~500sqm block in the high $500ks

📈 Vacancy still tight, rents up, and why demand hasn’t disappeared

🚀 The population story: ~324k now, heading toward ~500k — plus Armstrong Creek and the next big growth corridor

🗺️ Real suburb talk: Corio, Breakwater, Thomson, Newcomb, St Albans Park, Belmont, Geelong West, South Geelong, Newtown and the tightly held waterfront pockets

🏖️ Lifestyle people still underestimate — Pakington Street, 15 minutes to the C*D, beaches, Bellarine, Avalon

And the big one we keep coming back to: Geelong looks a lot like Newcastle 10–15 years ago.

If you’re thinking about buying, selling or investing in the region, this one’s worth the watch.

https://youtu.be/0XG8hUh7aYo

Got a Geelong question? Drop it below.

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31/03/2026

📈 What Happened To House Prices During The 1970–1980 Inflation Wave? 🏠🔥

A lot of people think inflation is bad for property… 🤔

But history tells a much more nuanced story.

During the 1970s, Australia went through a major inflationary period 🇦🇺
Costs surged 💸, wages rose 📊, interest rates climbed 📈… and the economy went through significant change.

Yet during that same period, house prices increased strongly 🏡⬆️

Why? 👇

Because inflation didn’t just push up everyday costs — it also pushed up:

🧱 the cost to build new homes
🌏 the value of land
🏗️ and the replacement cost of property

At the same time:

💰 wages were rising
👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 population was growing
🏘️ and demand for housing remained strong

This created a powerful environment where real assets like property were re-priced higher over time 📈🏠

But here’s the key… ⚠️

It wasn’t smooth.

There were:

🌊 periods of volatility
📈 rising interest rates
💵 affordability pressure
😬 and uncertainty

Yet over the decade, property still moved significantly higher 🚀

The big lesson? 🧠

In inflationary environments:

💵 cash can lose purchasing power
🏠 but quality assets often get revalued

That doesn’t mean property always goes up in a straight line… 📉📈

But it does mean understanding how inflation interacts with real assets is critical 🔍

Because what happened in the 1970s wasn’t just about rising prices…

It was about how the entire system adjusted to inflation 🌍🔥

And that’s a lesson worth understanding today. 👀

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