Q&A - Property crossroads, gearing decisions and modelling for inflation

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Five listeners at very different life stages, each wrestling with where to direct capital next. Perth couple "Amelia and Ivan," with two investment properties and a baby on the way, weigh three distinct strategies: hold and sell later to fund a renovation, swap a townhouse for a better-taxed property, or add a third and keep them all. Stuart works through the trade-offs and what a year or two off work really means for the plan.

A 26-year-old in Sydney real estate asks how to play the long game: buy a first home to live in and later upsize, or turn it into a rental? A 40-year-old in Ocean Reef with a healthy offset balance wonders whether an investment property makes sense now, whether to deploy cash or super first, and whether a trust is premature. And "Gus, the country copper," living rent-free with strong super, debates whether to keep funnelling surplus into shares via his trust or gear into another property purely for leverage.

Plus a genuinely useful technical question on inflation: how to treat it in wealth modelling, and whether to convert future assets back into today's dollars to track real progress.

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