The future for first home buyers: How to get on Australia’s property ladder today

Are you staring at those property prices in your neighbourhood going ‘WHAT?’ Wondering if you’ll ever be able to afford the home you want, where you want? What if you can’t rely on the Bank of Mum and Dad?

The path to home ownership is feeling more and more uncertain for a lot of prospective first home buyers. Affordability, availability, high interest rates and cost-of-living pressures remain key issues – even while government schemes are making it easier to buy with lower deposits.

Buying your first home should not be an impossible task – and we’re here to show you that it absolutely is possible.

Join Your Money & Your Life for our FREE webinar, The future for first home buyers: How to get on Australia’s property ladder today, in association with online impact lender WLTH.

We’ll answer all your questions with our panel of property experts: Your Money & Your Life’s David Koch, WLTH CEO and co-founder Brodie Haupt and Zeroo Home Loans co-founder Lucinda Hartley.

In this FREE online webinar, we will break down:

  • The different pathways available to first-home buyers
  • How to better navigate a competitive housing market
  • The questions to ask real estate agents, brokers and lenders
  • Forecasts of what’s ahead for the rest of 2026 for home buyers

WATCH NOW for The future for first home buyers: How to get on Australia’s property ladder today. Bring your questions! 

Note: All information in this masterclass will be general in nature. Before acting on any information, you should consider seeking independent legal, financial, tax and other advice to check how this information relates to your unique circumstances.

MEET THE EXPERTS

David Koch, Host, Your Money & Your Life

David “Kochie” Koch is one of Australia’s most respected personalities in television, business and personal finance. David is the former host of Sunrise on Channel 7, the President of Port Adelaide Football Club, and Chairman of Pinstripe Media, publishers of Kochie’s Business Builders, Startup Daily, Flying Solo and Your Money and Your Life. In 2024, David has hosted two seasons of Your Money and Your Life, a Channel 7 series devoted to helping Australians improve their everyday financial literacy. Each week, David publishes his My Money Digest newsletter on weekly money, life and business news.

Brodie Haupt, Co-founder & CEO, WLTH

Brodie Haupt is the co-founder and CEO of online impact lender WLTH. With extensive expertise in financial services, lending, fintech and proptech, Brodie has a proven track record of founding and scaling multiple successful finance ventures. As a graduate of Oxford University, Saïd Business School, and Harvard Business School, his innovative approach to e-payments and lending has earned him recognition as a forward-thinking leader in the field.

Lucinda Hartley, Co-founder, Zeroo Home Loans

Lucinda Hartley is an award-winning urban designer, housing expert, and serial entrepreneur Named one of Australia’s Top 100 Most Influential Women by the Australian Financial Review, she has spent twenty years designing cities around the world.  As co-founder of Zeroo Home Loans, she is currently spearheading an innovative 0% deposit home loan product to barriers to home ownership. Before this, she co-founded national urban data analytics company Neighbourlytics (acquired by REA) and leading placemaking consultancy CoDesign Studio. She is an urban futurist, who helped create the UN Sustainable Development Goals for Cities and worked on city-shaping projects for Google. Her new book, Finding Home (April 26) is a practical guide to finding a home in today’s market, and her answer to reinventing the Great Australian Dream.