Profile
Michael Yardney is a best selling author and one of Australia’s leading experts in wealth creation through property, and was voted Australia’s best property investment adviser for 2011 by readers of Your Investment Property magazine.
He is Australia's most published property author and has probably educated more successful property investors than anyone else in Australia. But he is not a theorist...
Michael is a successful property investor and property developer and, as a director of Metropole Property Investment Strategists, his opinions as a property commentator are highly sought after and frequently quoted in the media.
Michael is the publisher of Australia’s leading property investment e-magazine “Property Update” - www.PropertyUpdate.com.au - with 50,000 subscribers and author of the runaway best selling book, “How to Grow a
Multi Million Dollar Property Portfolio in your spare time”. He is also author of the top selling books: “What every property investor needs to know about finance, tax and the law”, "Thriving not just Surviving in Changing Times" and has co authored two other top selling books: “The Australian Guide to Buying and Selling your Home” with his wife Pamela Yardney and “Secrets of Property Millionaires Exposed.”
He writes a daily Property Investment Update blog as well as weekly blogs for Yahoo Finance, Property Observer, SmartCompany and Australian Property Investor Magazine and a regular column for A.P.I. Magazine and New Zealand Property Investor Magazine.
His opinions as a property commentator have been quoted in all major Australian daily newspapers and financial magazines and regularly gives his views on wealth creation and the property markets on the radio. Michael is also a regular keynote speaker at property conferences in Australia and South East Asia.
Michael bought his first investment property over 35 years ago, in his early 20’s, without a deposit and not understanding the rules of the game. He then went on to build a multi-million dollar investment property portfolio in his spare time. In 1979 he established Metropole Properties that has become Australia’s leading firms of independent property investment strategists with offices in Melbourne, Sydney & Brisbane.
Over the years the team at Metropole has bought, sold, advised, financed, invested in, built and project managed hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars worth of property transactions creating wealth for their clients.Michael’s opinions as a property commentator have been featured in radio programs throughout Australia and in the following publications:
- The Bulletin, BRW, Money, Australian Property Investor, Wealth Creator, Your Investment Property, Your Mortgage and National Accountant magazines
- The Australian Financial Review, Age, Australian, Sydney Morning Herald, Brisbane Courier Mail, Western Australian, Adelaide Advertiser, Canberra Times, Darwin Times and Herald Sun newspapers
- SmartCompany, www.RealEstate.com.au, www.Domain.com.au, Property Review, and Property Update e-magazines
He has been a keynote speaker at many major property conferences in Australia and SE Asia including:
- Wealth Retreat 2007, 2008, 2009 & 2010
- The World Property Summit in 2004, 2005, 2006
- Wealth Creator Magazine property seminars
- The “Real World” Real Estate workshop in Melbourne for the last 8 years
- Law and Finance’s Property Development Seminar
- The Melbourne, Sydney, Perth & Brisbane Property Expos
- The New Zealand Investors Federation Annual Conference
- The Reno Kings’ Property to the Max Workshops in Brisbane and Sydney
Stay connected with Michael:
- Subscribe for FREE to Michael’s Property Update e-magazine and receive a free e-book.
- View Michael’s video commentaries on the property markets at Property Update TV.
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