Built Different Podcast

Steve Maroun runs a $200M development pipeline at 30 - and says this is the hardest moment in Australian property development in living memory. His family lost nearly everything in the GFC. He's building anyway.
Steve, Director of Lanevick, takes Aaron Christie-David through the maths that stopped working: land, build cost and sale price all moving the wrong way at once, to the point where sites approved for six storeys are now worth more with the existing house renovated.
He breaks development into four pillars - finance, construction, design and town planning, and sales, and shows where first-time developers quietly destroy their margin before they've turned a sod. Splitter blocks that shrink your buyer pool. Over-capitalising on a build nobody in that suburb can afford. Treating development as something you do on the side.
It's also a family story. His father arrived in the early 1980s, started in cement rendering, built a portfolio across the Olympic boom, then watched it unwind in 2008 with only the family home left. What Steve learned in the rebuild is the real lesson here: start small, stay active, run your own race, and stay in the game long enough for the odds to do their work.
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What happens when the footy stops? Jeremy Latimore played 182 NRL games across 11 seasons and 5 clubs - then retirement, COVID, a marriage breakdown, and a seven-figure stock market loss hit all at once.
Jeremy joins Aaron Christie-David to talk about the "mental gym" that rebuilt his life: daily routines, goal books and five-year plans. They cover why athletes go broke, the #1 red flag a mate is struggling, buying four properties while moving 16 times between clubs, the mindset of big-game players like Nathan Cleary, and raising resilient kids through action, not words.
Raw, funny and brutally honest - this is a masterclass in resilience, money and reinvention.
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About the show: Built Different is hosted by Aaron Christie-David, mortgage broker and Managing Director of Atelier Wealth. Each episode unpacks property investing, wealth-building and the mindset behind financial success in Australia, with the investors, athletes and entrepreneurs doing it differently.
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The Federal Budget just changed the rules of Australian property investing overnight - negative gearing, CGT discounts, self-managed super funds and the ripple effects will hit every renter, buyer and investor in the country.
Sammy Gordon (Australian Property Scout) and Jeremy Iannuzzelli join the show for a post-budget deep dive: why disincentivising investors will trigger a rental super boom, how the new policies draw a permanent line between the haves and have-nots, what's really behind the government's push against SMSFs and payday super, and why sentiment is sitting at GFC lows while seasoned investors are quietly buying more aggressively than ever.
If you're wondering whether to sit on your hands or act, this episode is your sentiment check. You'll learn why the next 6-12 months may be the best buying window since COVID, the 12 locations tipped for extreme rental surges, and the mindset shift needed to build wealth when everyone else is frozen.
Topics:
Australian property market 2026
Negative gearing changes
Rental crisis
Federal budget property impact
SMSF changes
Superannuation reform
Property investing strategy
Buying window
Wealth gap Australia

Download Sam Gordon's rental superboom white paper here: https://australianpropertyscout.com.au/whitepaper/

The government has ended SMSF residential property lending. You have until August 10 to sign a contract if you want to buy property with your super using borrowing.

In this episode, live from our team conference in Cairns: what the SMSF changes mean, who's affected, the week-by-week plan to beat the deadline (24-hour SMSF setups, 3-day rollovers, skipping pre-approval), the negative gearing and capital gains tax changes, and why commercial property lending remains open.

Plus: 10 years of Atelier Wealth, the AI tools we're adopting (and the ones we won't use with clients), and the Wheel of Life exercise to try this weekend.

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General information only - not personal financial, tax or credit advice.