EDA Property Media Coverage


‘My mum found me at rock bottom in a pub. What happened next transformed my life completely.’
When my marriage of seven years ended, I walked away with next to nothing.
There I was — the former corporate “power woman,” the financial expert, the breadwinner — suddenly single with two young children.


‘Mum, why aren’t I ever invited to anything?’ Boy’s heartbreak over exclusion
In his entire first year at school, Anissa’s son, Massimo wasn’t invited to a single birthday party or playdate.
At the time, the Melbourne mum didn’t think much of it – but it turned out to be something that would eventually break her heart into a million pieces.
That’s because one year stretched to several more, and sadly, at nine years old, Massimo was yet to receive his first birthday invitation – or even one for a playdate.


Real life: “I was a broke single mum facing homelessness, now I own 17 properties”
Being a single parent is not a full-time job. It’s about five full-time jobs.
Add in two neurodiverse children, and you are literally running a country.


‘I still had a really unhealthy relationship with money’: The harsh lesson Anissa learned following her divorce
Anissa Cavallo thought she knew everything she needed to know about money and property, following all the steps she had been taught.
She was working hard and had bought a home with her then-husband and had purchased an additional property through her superannuation.


Aussie mum buys 15 homes in five years after she loses ‘everything’ in divorce
A Melbourne mum who lost everything in her divorce has revealed how she built herself back up and amassed a portfolio of 15 properties within five years.
Anissa Cavallo was the “breadwinner” of her family and had a well-paid corporate job as an executive in the financial services industry.


Woolies worker scores three homes before 30
Woolworths power couple Terry Talarico and fiance Monique Chetcuti are on to buying their third property while in their early 20s, all without any financial assistance from their parents.
The pair both hold down two jobs, taking on weekend and evening shifts as disability support workers alongside their main gigs as a manager and assistant manager overseeing the fresh food operations within two different Woolies stores.


FOMO driving investors into property, especially in these suburbs
The prospect of making double-digit capital gains while enjoying a healthy cash flow is proving irresistible for many investors, who are now piling back into the property market in greater numbers each month, new data shows.
In April, investors took out a total of $10.9 billion worth of mortgages to buy rental properties, a sharp rise of 5.6 per cent compared with the previous month. In the past 12 months, new lending to investors surged 36.1 per cent, faster than a year ago, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics.