Episodes

Friday Jun 13, 2025
How do you work out the true value of a property?
Friday Jun 13, 2025
Friday Jun 13, 2025
In this episode of SYF Podcast, John Comino and David Shih go through discussing
- How do you work out the true value of a property you like? John shares with us his secret with a 4 step approach
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Host/Guest are not Financial Adviser/Investment Consultant.
All opinions expressed by host or his guests are for informational purposes only and should not be treated as investment/financial advice of any kind.
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Friday May 30, 2025
5 learnings from John's own home knock down & rebuild exercise!
Friday May 30, 2025
Friday May 30, 2025
In this episode of SYF Podcast, John Comino and David Shih go through discussing
- Property Market Update/Observations
- The 5 learnings from John - with his own home's knock down & rebuild exercise
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Host/Guest are not Financial Adviser/Investment Consultant.
All opinions expressed by host or his guests are for informational purposes only and should not be treated as investment/financial advice of any kind.
"Spark your FIRE" and its team are not liable to the listeners or any other party, for the listeners use of, or reliance on, any information received, directly or indirectly, from the content in any circumstances.
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Thursday Apr 17, 2025
WHERE TO INVEST $600 to $700K budget in Melbourne today? With Steve Ash
Thursday Apr 17, 2025
Thursday Apr 17, 2025
In this episode of SYF Podcast, David Shih brings back on Steve Ash from PropertyStrats to chat about:
- Current Melbourne market dynamics
- Deep diving into 3 Melbourne suburbs that Steve is currently buying for his clients which is within $600 to $700K budget! Find out why he would recommend these suburbs and the associated strategy to deploy!
And much more!
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Host/Guest are not Financial Adviser/Investment Consultant.
All opinions expressed by host or his guests are for informational purposes only and should not be treated as investment/financial advice of any kind.
"Spark your FIRE" and its team are not liable to the listeners or any other party, for the listeners use of, or reliance on, any information received, directly or indirectly, from the content in any circumstances.
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Friday Apr 04, 2025
How would Trump's tariff war impact Australian shares & property market?
Friday Apr 04, 2025
Friday Apr 04, 2025
In this episode of SYF Podcast, John Comino and David Shih go through discussing
- Property Market Update/Observations
- How would Trump's tariff war impact Australian shares & property market?
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DISCLAIMER:
Host/Guest are not Financial Adviser/Investment Consultant.
All opinions expressed by host or his guests are for informational purposes only and should not be treated as investment/financial advice of any kind.
"Spark your FIRE" and its team are not liable to the listeners or any other party, for the listeners use of, or reliance on, any information received, directly or indirectly, from the content in any circumstances.
Please conduct your own research and obtain independent legal, financial, taxation and/or other professional advice in respect of any decision made in connection with this audio.
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Friday Mar 21, 2025
Friday Mar 21, 2025
In this episode of SYF Podcast, John Comino and David Shih go through discussing
- Property Market Update/Observations
- 5 key criteria that'll help you beat the average performance in your property investment journey
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DISCLAIMER:
Host/Guest are not Financial Adviser/Investment Consultant.
All opinions expressed by host or his guests are for informational purposes only and should not be treated as investment/financial advice of any kind.
"Spark your FIRE" and its team are not liable to the listeners or any other party, for the listeners use of, or reliance on, any information received, directly or indirectly, from the content in any circumstances.
Please conduct your own research and obtain independent legal, financial, taxation and/or other professional advice in respect of any decision made in connection with this audio.
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Friday Mar 07, 2025
How to narrow down your property selection via the decision quadrant
Friday Mar 07, 2025
Friday Mar 07, 2025
In this episode of SYF Podcast, John Comino and David Shih go through discussing
- Feb RBA Rate Cut with Property Market Update/Observations
- How you can use the decision quadrant to narrow down and solidify the investment properties that you're looking to buy.
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DISCLAIMER:
Host/Guest are not Financial Adviser/Investment Consultant.
All opinions expressed by host or his guests are for informational purposes only and should not be treated as investment/financial advice of any kind.
"Spark your FIRE" and its team are not liable to the listeners or any other party, for the listeners use of, or reliance on, any information received, directly or indirectly, from the content in any circumstances.
Please conduct your own research and obtain independent legal, financial, taxation and/or other professional advice in respect of any decision made in connection with this audio.
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Friday Feb 21, 2025
Where and what to invest in Sydney for $1.2M budget?
Friday Feb 21, 2025
Friday Feb 21, 2025
In this episode of SYF Podcast, John Comino and David Shih go through discussing
- Property Market Update/Observations
- If your budget is $1.2M, where and what type of property to invest in Sydney? We explore various options from apartments in close proximity to CBD vs house on a block of land further away.
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DISCLAIMER:
Host/Guest are not Financial Adviser/Investment Consultant.
All opinions expressed by host or his guests are for informational purposes only and should not be treated as investment/financial advice of any kind.
"Spark your FIRE" and its team are not liable to the listeners or any other party, for the listeners use of, or reliance on, any information received, directly or indirectly, from the content in any circumstances.
Please conduct your own research and obtain independent legal, financial, taxation and/or other professional advice in respect of any decision made in connection with this audio.
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Friday Feb 07, 2025
Friday Feb 07, 2025
In this episode of Spark Your F.I.R.E, as an ongoing sequence of "Is Australian Real Estate too expensive now?", John Comino from Bridge-to-Bricks returns with the latest Jan 2025 data & findings with us on:
- Property vs Stock Market - performance comparison over the last 40 years
- An update on Sydney Property Trend & House Prices
- REAL Sydney house prices (priced in Gold)
- Using Sydney as the anchor, we compare every capital city to deduce whether they're a value buy at the moment or not
For a video version of this recording in which you can see the data & graphs please head to:
https://youtu.be/Mk-gBTBPB2k?si=0As-xbJlWstl_BTn
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DISCLAIMER:
Host/Guest are not Financial Adviser/Investment Consultant.
All opinions expressed by host or his guests are for informational purposes only and should not be treated as investment/financial advice of any kind.
"Spark your FIRE" and its team are not liable to the listeners or any other party, for the listeners use of, or reliance on, any information received, directly or indirectly, from the content in any circumstances.
Please conduct your own research and obtain independent legal, financial, taxation and/or other professional advice in respect of any decision made in connection with this audio.
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Friday Jan 24, 2025
Property Investor Story - How Steve Ash built his $11M property portfolio
Friday Jan 24, 2025
Friday Jan 24, 2025
Happy new year and welcome to 2025!
Kicking off our first episode of SYF Podcast, our host David Shih has the pleasure of interviewing Steve Ash, an experienced property investor/buyers agent who shares his own property journey since arriving on this land of opportunities. The topics discussed includes:
- How Steve started with his first property in Sydney
- The strategies that he has tried out which some worked and some didn't
- Lessons learnt along the way and what would he do differently?
And much more!
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Keen to know more? You can contact Steve from Property Strats on:
Email: steve@propertystrats.com.au
Mobile: 0439 957 614
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DISCLAIMER:
Host/Guest are not Financial Adviser/Investment Consultant.
All opinions expressed by host or his guests are for informational purposes only and should not be treated as investment/financial advice of any kind.
"Spark your FIRE" and its team are not liable to the listeners or any other party, for the listeners use of, or reliance on, any information received, directly or indirectly, from the content in any circumstances.
Please conduct your own research and obtain independent legal, financial, taxation and/or other professional advice in respect of any decision made in connection with this audio.
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Friday Dec 13, 2024
Friday Dec 13, 2024
In this episode of SYF Podcast, John Comino and David Shih go through discussing
- Reviewing our earlier predictions made back in December 2023 - how did we fare?
- Marking our predictions for 2025 - which capitals will shine?
Link to the previous episode on our predictions made back in Dec 2023:
https://sparkyourfire.podbean.com/e/unpacking-november-2023-property-data-what-s-ahead-for-2024/
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DISCLAIMER:
Host/Guest are not Financial Adviser/Investment Consultant.
All opinions expressed by host or his guests are for informational purposes only and should not be treated as investment/financial advice of any kind.
"Spark your FIRE" and its team are not liable to the listeners or any other party, for the listeners use of, or reliance on, any information received, directly or indirectly, from the content in any circumstances.
Please conduct your own research and obtain independent legal, financial, taxation and/or other professional advice in respect of any decision made in connection with this audio.
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