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Helen Ewing

Helen Ewing

Property investor and General Manager at Mypropertypartner; built a $10M+ property portfolio featured on Australian Property Show podcast.

Jul 3, 2026

16:00
The property portfolio that you still hold today, what kind of properties have you targeted within that over the years?
16:07
So I went to buy in Mayfield when it was still just after BHP actually closed down and so I was mainly buying two bedroom houses I could change to three or ones that didn't have off-street parking that I could put a carport on or it was just an old house and I could do a renovation.
16:27
So And then after doing that for a couple of years, I came across a property in Baroota Street that was already turned into one-bedroom flats and saw a huge market for one-bedroom accommodation.
16:43
So I kind of got interested in that and bought a couple that were...
16:48
Another one was like a three-bedroom house that had already been turned into...
16:51
I didn't want to do it myself, but the structure was already there.
16:54
So I just renovated them and I did... take a little bit of time in boarding houses because I was looking for a higher rental return because I didn't want to accumulate a huge responsibility in terms of negatively gearing.

8 MINS LATER

24:41
And perhaps a little less stressed about the whole experience.

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