DECLAN’S CASE STUDY

Rentvesting From Belfast to the Shire: Two Investments That Bought a Family Home

Before they met NIA

Declan is a senior HR executive who had done everything ‘right’: worked hard, saved steadily, and still felt locked out of the Sydney housing market. Every pay rise seemed to hand more to the tax office, while house prices climbed faster than the savings could keep up.

He had tried the share market with a small amount and watched it go backwards. Property felt safer, but as a migrant without local family or know-how, he did not want to make a six-figure mistake. What he needed was a guide he could trust to tell him the truth.

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results achieved with nia

How NIA Helped Make Things Much Better

With NIA, Declan adopted a rentvesting strategy: renting where they wanted to live in Sydney while building equity through house-and-land investments in Brisbane’s growth corridors. Two Brisbane builds later, one in the north and one in the south, the equity had grown enough to do the thing that once felt impossible: buy their own family home in Sydney’s Sutherland Shire, timed just as their first child arrived.

Two house-and-land investments in Brisbane

First property up around $300k to $350k

Rentvesting: rent in Sydney, invest in Brisbane

Equity released to buy their Sydney home

Principal home secured in November 2025

Home ownership salary savings alone couldn’t reach

Full suite used: mortgage, legal, property management

Has referred six people to NIA

The Portfolio – Investment 1

Declan Portfolio CS 1

Investment 2

Declan Portfolio CS2

Investment 3

Declan Portfolio CS3