About Us
Smart Property Investment is the premier source of news, intelligence and information for property investors and home buyers.
Smart Property Investment provides Australian property investors with must-have insight, strategies and real-life experiences to help guide successful buying and selling decisions in the Australian property market.
Whether you’re at the beginning of your investment journey or have an established property portfolio, Smart Property Investment helps you build, grow and manage your property purchases. We equip investors with essential insight to new hot spots, suburb performance, tried and tested investment strategies, and tax and legal updates.
Most importantly, Smart Property Investment is by investors, for investors. We have our own property portfolio and team of investment advisers, and have an intimate understanding of what property investors really need to know to be successful in the Australian market. Our team regularly shares its own wins and challenges, as do our range of expert commentators.
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MEET OUR TEAM
Liam Garman is the managing editor of professional services, real estate and security at Momentum Media. He began his career as a speech writer at New South Wales Parliament before working for world leading campaigns and research agencies in Sydney and Auckland. Throughout his career, Liam has managed and executed international media campaigns spanning politics, business, industrial relations and infrastructure. He’s since shifted his attention to writing on politics and business, and holds a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Sydney and a Masters from UNSW Canberra with a thesis on postmodernism and media ecology.
Based in Sydney, Juliet Helmke joined Momentum Media in 2021, bringing with her a broad range of editorial experience across the areas of business, technology, entertainment and the arts. With a master’s degree in writing from the School of Visual Arts in NYC, she has a longstanding commitment to delivering reporting that helps readers inform their worldviews, and is bringing this passion to the property sector in her role with Momentum Media.
Sebastian Holloman is a graduate journalist for Momentum Media’s real estate brands. He holds a Bachelor of Communications majoring in Journalism from the University of Technology Sydney and is dedicated to delivering clear and concise information on the real estate sector.
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Jim has nearly 20 years of media experience across multiple industry sectors, including mortgages, real estate, wealth, law, accountancy and consumer wealth. He has been involved in leading growth across multiple brands, and has headed up a number of Momentum’s award winning brands and events. An experienced media executive and event director, Jim is currently leveraging his unique skillset to drive the development of the multiple media brands and initiatives in Momentum’s real estate, consumer wealth, SME and accountancy portfolio.
Laine is the partnerships manager for REB and RPM. Originally from Canada, Laine gained a degree in kinesiology and business at the University of Windsor. Before moving to Australia in 2018, Laine had many years of experience in sales as an account executive with Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment (Maple Leafs/ Raptors). As a partnerships manager, Laine provides first-class advice and service to his clients seeking to reach Australia’s real estate industry.
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Phillip Tarrant
Executive Editor – Real Estate and Consumer Wealth, Momentum Media
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Phillip is a media executive with over 20 years’ experience, in a career that spans finance, real estate, business and economics. He has a passion for property and leads the content strategy for the market and business intelligence platforms at Momentum Media (www.momentumemdia.com.au) aimed at the real estate and consumer wealth sectors. This includes REB (realestatebusines.com.au), RPM (residentialpropertymanager.com.au) and Smart Property Investment (www.smartpropertyinvestment.com.au) – the authoritative voice for Australia’s property investment community. As head of the Property Investment Podcast Network, he also steers the largest network of property podcasts in Australia, which collectively generate nearly two million downloads every year.
Russell is a media executive with a career spanning 15+ years working across a range of professional sectors, including marketing, mortgages, real estate, wealth, legal and small-to-medium enterprises. He is the commercial growth director at Momentum Media, where he develops and implements strategies with the aim of accelerating growth, realising business outcomes and capitalising on new market opportunities.
Blair has over 20 years’ experience in the online sector, graduating from university with a Bachelor of Commerce in the late 1990s. Working in marketing, product development and management roles for start-ups as well as established media brands in New Zealand, UK, Germany and Australia, Blair has developed extensive knowledge across all facets of digital technology. With deep technical experience combined with a commercial mindset, Blair leads the development of digital platforms at Momentum Media.
Michael leads Agile Market Intelligence, a research agency responsible for delivering internal and external stakeholders with rich audience insights and analysis. His expertise as a Chartered Accountant, data analyst and market research professional has been critical to delivering real-world insights to Australia’s largest financial institutions, corporates and professional services firms.
Lyndsey has 11 years’ experience working in media production. Following her Master’s degree in Journalism, she worked across a set of political and public policy magazines in England as a journalist, subeditor and as production manager. Lyndsey has worked at Momentum Media for the past four years heading up the production department and managing the development of its award-winning magazines, including Australian Aviation and World of Aviation, web portals and suite of highly-ranked podcasts.
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About Momentum Media
Momentum Media (www.momentummedia.com.au) has been equipping Australia’s corporate, investor and business sectors with market and business intelligence for over a decade.
Across an integrated business supported by digital, events, live streaming, broadcast, content-on-demand, research, print and social platforms, we are guided by a fundamental principal: Be better informed.
Better informed readers, listeners, viewers, event participants, advertisers, sponsors and commercial partners, government and policy decisionmakers.
This mission for informing, educating and inspiring drives us to build more engaged communities, delivering greater leadership to the markets we connect with and forging closer relationships with our audiences.
Being at the forefront of media innovation, backed by a pioneering spirit, has been central to Momentum Media’s growth.
We’re an evolving, forward-thinking business based on a purpose that supports corporate Australia and the markets critical to our nation’s economic prosperity. We’re also focused on delivering exceptional value to our commercial partners.
We continually adapt to rapidly changing marketplaces; we’re a fluid media business, unshackled to any particular technology, channel or tone of communication.
With a monthly reach spanning over a million professionals, high-net-worth individuals and business owners, we’re connected to the rapidly changing preferences and attitudes of our communities – and we’re making a positive contribution for them to thrive.