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Look down the NBR Rich List and one word repeats: property. New Zealand's richest families are collectively worth $129 billion — and property runs right through the top of the list. In this episode of the Property Academy podcast, Ed and Andrew count down the 5 NZ property billionaires, how they actually built their wealth, and what everyday Kiwi investors can copy:
● The Manson family ($1.1B): started with residential renovations in South Auckland — now building $650M Auckland office towers with almost no mortgage ● The Farmer family ($1.2B): bought Auckland waterfront land, turned it leasehold, and let scarcity do the work ● Peter Cooper ($1.7B): won the Britomart precinct on a 150-year lease and built a whole Auckland precinct slowly from scratch ● Sir Michael Friedlander ($2.1B): quietly running one of Auckland's biggest private commercial property portfolios since the 1940s ● The Goodman family ($5.5B): boring warehouse boxes near motorways — now pivoting into data centres worth A$87 billion
Not one of these families flipped their way to a billion dollars. The boring strategy — buy good assets, hold through the cycles — is the one that actually built the wealth. Every time.
Ep. 2503⎟Property Academy podcast
00:00 Intro 00:34 The NBR Rich List 02:01 Sir Ted Manson 03:48 The Farmer family 07:12 Peter Cooper 08:59 Sir Michael Friedlander 12:49 The Goodman family 14:36 What they have in common
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