

Why smart investors are about to pivot to commercial
Rate cuts, sticky inflation, and a federal budget that just rewrote the rules on negative gearing, CGT and SMSF lending. In this episode of Broker Bulletin, Clare George from LMG Commercial catches up with Vanessa Rader, Head of Research at Ray White. Together, they unpack why that gap is about to…

The good, the bad and the ugly of the biggest tax shake-up in a decade
The federal budget breakdown to find opportunities for brokers following fundamental changes to capital gains tax (CGT), negative gearing and the scrapping of residential SMSF lending. Loan Market Business Owner Blake Chandler and Thinktank's Head of Partnerships and Distribution, Joel Harrison, …

Why going niche was Caroline’s boldest (and best) business move
Caroline Mundey was told that narrowing her focus was a risky move. She did it anyway, and it paid off. Having lived through the instability of renting as a single parent, Caroline knows firsthand what it means to feel financially vulnerable. That experience gave her a clear direction on who she …

Are 20% deposits dead? Or is high LVR lending really too risky?
High LVR: super high cost, complicated, high risk, only for first home buyers. Sound familiar? In this episode of Broker Bulletin, Kath Persoglia sits down with Mario Emmanuel, Co-Founder of Skip by LMG, to debate the realities of high LVR lending and the current sentiment in the market around the…

Why I tell my brokers to beat me (and why I’ll never let them)
Jason Wylie has always been a high performer. But writing big numbers was never the actual goal. In this episode of Broker Bulletin, the Director and Principal Broker at Loan Market Capital sits down with Alberto Gorgioski and gets candid about what building a business really looks like from the i…

Chartered Accountant-turned-trusted Broker: how Sue Vuong wins complex deals
Most brokers shy away from complex scenarios. Sue Vuong has built her whole career on them. A chartered accountant turned mortgage broker, Sue has built her Perth-based business on the clients others turn away: the self-employed, the complex, the ones who've already heard no. In the latest Broker…

Your brokerage is leaking profit — and you probably don't know where
Most brokers look at gross revenue and think they're on track. MK says that's exactly the problem. In this episode of Broker Bulletin, LMG's Denya Dean sits down with Michael Karpathakis, National Head of Business Performance at LMG, discussing what it takes to run a profitable, scalable broker bu…

Inside the next growth chapter of a $150 million market leader
George Massouridis, Founder and CEO of Mortgage Navigators in Sydney, has built something that most brokers only dream about; a business with real longevity, a team that stays, and a growth strategy that’s just getting started. In the latest Broker Bulletin, LMG's Grace Ormsby sits down with Georg…

The lender that made trust lending simple (and cheaper than you think)
Most brokers hear "trust lending" and brace for complexity. Laura Waters, Head of Residential at Podium Money, sits down with Raj Kapoor from Apollo to strip back the confusion around non-trading trust and company lending. From succession planning families to sophisticated investors, trust struct…

Diana quit her banking job in COVID, started a brokerage and grew it 200% in 12 months. Here's how.
Most brokers know social media matters. Very few actually make it work. Diana Hemmad went from posting "dodgy" videos to building a community of almost 12,000 Instagram followers driving significant leads through her pipeline and simultaneously scaling her team from two to seven in a year. In thi…