Dominique Grubisa is a practising legal practitioner with more than 22 years of experience.
She is one of Australia’s leading property educators, authors and speakers. She is also an experienced property investor and developer who has bought, sold or held more than $50 million worth of real estate.
Dominique has featured as an expert on A Current Affair, Today Tonight, The Circle and throughout other media outlets.
Real estate developing is one of the few areas a person can enter with little expertise and become wealthy in a relatively short amount of time.
Builders need ongoing projects to keep their workers employed and are on the constant lookout for ready to build sites to save time and holding costs.
This opens the door to acquiring property, obtaining development approvals and then on-selling it to builders for a tidy profit.
You can even acquire the property with minimal outlay using creative instruments such as options and leasing.
When you subdivide one property into many you can add significant value in the process.
You then have the option to hold the lots and wait for more uplift, build on the vacant lots and/or sell one of the properties to pay down your debt and increase your equity and rental yields.
This approach is simple and low risk when you understand the process and what to look out for.
Residential unit development has a potentially lower financial requirement compared to commercial, industrial or retail development.
Many residential unit developers sell some of their units after completion to pay down their debt, effectively allowing them to own the remaining units outright.
You can repeat this process to acquire several millions in property and hundreds of thousands in positive cashflow to effectively retire on.
Using what we learnt, we bought a block of land under market value in a high growth area and are looking to do a sub-division and two houses… We hired a builder to obtain the DAs and manage the project on our behalf. We’re half way through the development now with a projected profit of $400,000. We’re already looking for our next property.
Alanah and Rob, New South Wales
I did Dominique’s course in 2014. I now have 5 projects on the go totaling around $1.8 million. Some are with money partners, others I am doing myself… I think property development is the easiest investment to do. You just find the deal and get other people to do the work, then phone in once a week to get updates… we are looking at roughly $700,000 in returns.
Yanal, Victoria