Jun 23, 2026 · 30 min · 13 segments
Population decline, migration, and infrastructure spending are currently rewriting the rules of real estate. In this episode, we strip back the noise to investigate the "K-shaped" property market: why…
Sam SaggersHost
But I'll tell you what, what if I was to tell you there are some crazy things happening? You probably would believe me because, in fact, every day we wake up and the world is quite crazy.
But what if I was to tell you there's a country on this planet which has 9 million empty homes, a rapid decline in its population...
It is running out of people and it is flooded with houses you can buy for a dollar.
Yet its main economic center, its main city has risen by 159% over the last five years.
In fact, That city is the world's best real estate marketplace, the highest performing marketplace on the planet.
And we're going to dig into what is happening overseas and what it really means for Australian property investors.
And we'll also look at marketplaces here in Australia where similar properties concepts are unfolding in fact one of our major states is going through what we can call the k-shaped demographic shift right now and why we use the letter k not the letter i or the letter s or P. I love P's.
If you've ever seen my F, my handwritten F, it's probably one of my best talents to actually scribe an F.
But we talk about the K-shaped property markets and the K-shaped economy because there really is a differential.
If you look at K, it's got kind of It's kind of got a boomerang hanging off a vertical.
But I'll tell you what, what if I was to tell you there are some crazy things happening? You probably would believe me because, in fact, every day we wake up and the world is quite crazy.
But what if I was to tell you there's a country on this planet which has 9 million empty homes, a rapid decline in its population...
It is running out of people and it is flooded with houses you can buy for a dollar.
Yet its main economic center, its main city has risen by 159% over the last five years.
In fact, That city is the world's best real estate marketplace, the highest performing marketplace on the planet.
And we're going to dig into what is happening overseas and what it really means for Australian property investors.
And we'll also look at marketplaces here in Australia where similar properties concepts are unfolding in fact one of our major states is going through what we can call the k-shaped demographic shift right now and why we use the letter k not the letter i or the letter s or P. I love P's.
If you've ever seen my F, my handwritten F, it's probably one of my best talents to actually scribe an F.
But we talk about the K-shaped property markets and the K-shaped economy because there really is a differential.
If you look at K, it's got kind of It's kind of got a boomerang hanging off a vertical.
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