Electrum Property

03/10/2025

Everyone keeps asking me - exactly what do you do?

01/10/2025

In regional areas, rents have really gone up.

In regional areas, there is much less choice with housing diversity.

You see, what nobody wants to say out loud, is that property developers make much more money, building 4 bedroom houses than 1, 2 or 3 bedrooms dwellings. I know - I am one!

It costs an extra $40k for that extra bedroom but the house then sells for an extra $80- 100k more.

We really need more 1-2 bedroom dwellings.
Heaps more.

We keep making bigger and bigger houses for a population with a a majority 1-2 personal household size.

Often, the demand for single bedroom houses is over 50% of the houses available but in regional areas, only comprises 5 to 7% of dwellings (check the latest ABS stats for your area). You can often never find a 1 or 2 bedroom unit for rent. Something affordable that actually fits your needs!

That is a massive adverse supply. A crisis that no one is even really attempting to fix.

If you want to make serious returns on your property portfolio and save the world - reach out. This is what we do.

Worker's accommodation is quick (approx. 12- 14 months), profitable for investors and providing a solution to this housing gap crisis.

It is also an area fraught with extremely costly compliance, cross over rules from several different government departments and variable building regulations - if you don't know what you are doing.

We've been mastering this for over 15 years.

Save workers, regional companies and communities while building your portfolio fast.

You will be doing a huge service to the communities in which these get delivered.

The stories that unfold around the difference you can make in people's lives living here, and the communities in which they live, are inspiring and will make you proud to be involved.

We do 100% service in this space: land sourcing, building design and contract and of course, ever important ongoing rental management (different section of the Residential Tenancy Act manages worker's accommodation, don't even try to do it yourself!). We have a specialised Operator's License to manage them. And we are discreet. If you would like the positive stories about the lives you are saving, but not be contacted about the inevitable dirty dishes in the share kitchen, or the power point in the bedrooms, we can assist.

We offer this service strictly in Victoria - only where we can do it well. Schedule a 20 mins consult to see if this may suit your needs.

28/09/2025

A love job.

A remote rural childcare and kindergarten project in Victoria. In my home town.

Collapsed. Closed. Defunct.

After 40 years of operating as a community run childcare, with no Council support and very little government funding, our beloved Childcare (where I did a stint as President when my children attended) closed up and was pretty hopeless of re-starting.

Back on the Board I went!

Very proud to say, we are not just back up and running one day a week but are now 5 days a week, offering childcare and now also kindergarten. We have completely rebuilt the centre with a Federal Grant and now ALSO have a brand new world class purpose built early childhood education centre (State Grant) and are one of the largest employers in the town!!

I am incredibly proud that we have the best capital infrastructure outside of Melbourne in our Zone (which includes Seymour).

It only took 3 years of lobbying!

So many people contributed to this, but the circle of five - on the committee that rebuilt the centre from the ground up (staffing, finances, policies, equipment, building, grants) - all operating in 100% volunteer capacity, was quite simply awe inspiring.

This is the hardest thing I have ever done and the one I am most proud of. So, so grateful to the amazing committee/board I was privileged enough to work with for those 4 years. You know who you are.

If a tiny town of 157 can do this, nothing is impossible.

Amazing people are everything. Our State member (his letter of support turned my solo lobbying around from an 8 month return phone call to 8 mins), our local Mayor, my local Council ward leader who I called when things looked hopeless, NERPSA leader, Dept. of Education, Schools Building Authority, my Building Surveyors who surveyed the site for free, The School Board who took some convincing as it was a big change, and above all, my husband for the support and wonderful ideas who told me, "I just couldn't give up, it was too important for the community".

So, so grateful to live in a regional community where these things make such a huge and ever lasting impact and where people really really matter.

26/09/2025

Back in 2015, Joel and I had a dream. To find our first larger development site.

It actually took us 6 long months to find.

Mail drops, door knocking, weekly real estate calls. We also lived 4 hours from the area in which we were looking. And we had very small 2 and 4 year olds that seemed to follow us everywhere...

We didn't end up building this one but sold it off with Plans and Permits when Dan Andrews decided to build Light Rail in front of it which would have killed the third story bay views.

Still, it remains one of our most profitable developments with 14 month turn around time.

6 triple story townhouses in Bay side Melbourne might not be where most people start, but we had an incredible mentor (thanks Bob!), education and mobile phone access to him and his team for world class learning and support.

A big shout out also to our first ever investors on this one also, who remain good friends to this day.

And of course, to our incredible team of architects whom we've followed from company to company -and now have their own company; who made this happen on a tricky site; with a challenging Council and a changing political landscape (and zoning regulations).

23/09/2025

Our first development out of the ground looked like this..... all those years ago!

These townhouses make 3 times more rent than what our larger neighbours' houses do.

And ours does. Consistently.
A little hint?

The 5 Star hosting rating really helps....

18/09/2025

Ever thought of doing a townhouse development and then holding it for income?

What if, you could buy a house at wholesale and ALSO save yourself the stamp duty? This could mean buying a house $160,000 cheaper than your neighbour. Not possible? See below.

16/09/2025

06/09/2025

Just finishing these worker accommodation suites… great for singles or couples who want affordable, flexible lease times and central.

If you know anyone who needs accommodation in Yarrawonga, please share with them.

Thank you!

✅ To apply, send an enquiry and you'll receive the application link by email.📞 For phone enquiries, call 1300 600 908 and enter Property Number 99906.Brand New Fully Furnished property is located just a few minutes’ walk to centre of town. Available from October 2025!...

27/07/2025

Finally finished earthworks at our Myrtelford Worker’s accomodation site….and I thought Beechworth was challenging - with all the rock and the shared private sewer main that NE Water had hover over while we scratched through granite!

The fall on this Myrt site is very deceiving and given we also need disabled parking and disabled pedestrian access, managing the fall has been excruciating for the design team and we’ve reworked it dozens of times.

The result is three split level for both dwellings and over 2000m3 of top soil with retaining walls. Was able to work with another local developer to achieve a more cost effective soil supply solution and reduce retaining walls by over 1/2 across by joining three adjoining sites and a bit of hustling…to achieve an innovative win/ win for everyone. Also got a few loads of top soil from a local pool installer! The build should really get going now.

26/07/2025

Tilers are starting on this workers accomodation dwelling next week. This one should be finished early September…

Connecting NBN and starting to order appliances and furniture trucks… 😄

And talk landscaping, which is always my favourite part of every development!

23/07/2025

Getting very close to finish time and furniture trucks on this worker’s accomodation dwelling… flooring goes down next week!

22/05/2025

Quick little update on a couple of worker accomodation houses we have under construction at the mo…

The first has finished plastering and about to be wet sealed before tiling the wet areas…

The second you can see- bricks almost complete, straightening walls prior to starting plastering…

A big thank you to Hadar Homes for cranking these out to budget and ahead of time so far 👍