The Quick-Start Guide to Your First Property: Pick Up Your Keys Simpler, Smarter and Sooner

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Glen James Rachelle Kroon

The Quick-Start Guide to Your First Property

Name: The Quick-Start Guide to Your First Property
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ISBN: 9781394414604

Pick Up Your Keys Simpler, Smarter and Sooner

Glen James, Rachelle Kroon

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Wiley
03 August 2026

Economics & Business; Finance & accounting

If saving hard isn’t working, you need a new property strategy

You’ve done everything right — got a job, cut back on spending, saved consistently — and yet property prices keep pulling further away. Like millions of other young Australians, you feel locked out, watching the dream slip away despite your best efforts. Let’s get real: saving a 20% deposit isn’t practical in today’s market. You need better strategies. That’s where The Quick-Start Guide to Your First Property comes in.

In this essential playbook, personal finance expert Glen James and top mortgage broker Rachelle Kroon share the hacks that are actually getting first-time buyers into the market right now. Drop the outdated advice and discover what’s really working in the 2020s: parental guarantees, rentvesting, government schemes, creative lending structures and more. The Quick-Start Guide to Your First Property translates complex finance jargon into plain language and gives you a clear roadmap to property ownership.

Whether you’re looking for your first home or you want to start investing, you’ll get actionable tips to:

Clarify your foundations: master your income, debt and money mindset before you buy. Enter the market sooner: with as little as a 5% deposit using government schemes and guarantor strategies. Tap into strategic investing: live where you want and invest where you can, with rentvesting and shared equity. Get clear on everything you need to know: like property cycles, asset types and the whole buying process from start to finish. Build your property team: understand what mortgage brokers, buyer’s agents, conveyancers, accountants and negotiators do — and who really works for you.

Full of practical tips and none of the fluff, this book shows readers that buying property is still possible, even in today’s ultracompetitive climate. The market has changed. Your strategy for getting started needs to change with it. How are you going to get started quick?

Interested in other ways to grow your money simpler, smarter and sooner? Check out the awarding-winning The Quick-Start Guide to Investing for everything you need to get started with shares.

By: Glen James, Rachelle Kroon
Imprint: Wiley
Country of Publication: Australia
ISBN: 9781394414604
ISBN 10: 1394414609
Pages: 336
Publication Date: 03 August 2026
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

GLEN JAMES is a former financial adviser, the award-winning author of The Quick-Start Guide to Investing and the creator of the money money money show. RACHELLE KROON is the founder of Sphere Home Loans and host of the this is property show. After starting the business in 2013 Rachelle quickly became one of the top mortgage brokers in Australia and is regularly featured in the MPA top 100.