How To Build A Successful Property Portfolio In Australia | The Lachlan Delahunty Story

Before Lachlan Delahunty built one of Australia’s most respected property advisory firms, he was working three jobs, delivering mail, steam-cleaning carpets, and pulling bar shifts, all to pay back a development deal that nearly sent his father bankrupt.

This is the unfiltered story of a 7-year failure, extreme financial sacrifice, and what it ACTUALLY takes to outperform the Australian property market by almost 3% consistently.

What you’ll learn in this episode:

• The townhouse development mistake that nearly wiped out his family and how 7 brutal years became the best education money couldn’t buy
• Why Lachlan chose a $45K valuer salary over commissions (and how that decision changed everything)
• The “rent vesting” strategy he used through his entire 20s to buy 9 investment properties before his own home
• How Follio has helped 1,400+ clients achieve an average $526,000 uplift per property with a 10.2% annual compounding growth rate vs. Australia’s 7.2% market average
• The brutal truth about Perth’s property market crash of 2014 and how a 110% oversupply became Lachlan’s greatest classroom
• His one financial rule he’s never broken
• What the next 6 years of Australian real estate investing really looks like and why the headwinds are coming

Whether you’re just starting your property portfolio in Australia or scaling toward financial freedom, this episode is the raw founder story that most property advisors are too polished to tell.

Published: 14 April 2026