Kevin Lee, Smart Property Adviser

Who we are

Smart Property Adviser is a unique company, created to assist our clients in a transparent, honest and ethical manner (refer to our Client Charter). The Company’s primary aim is to kick start our client’s financial education, empowering property investors to achieve their investment goals, and remove the hurdles most people face when it comes to successfully investing in residential property.

These core company values are echoed by Kevin Lee, an award winning finance specialist and founder of Smart Property Adviser. The underlying Smartline finance consulting business was established in Sydney in July 1999 by Kevin Lee. At the time he was a Business Development Manager for ANZ Bank’s ‘Small Business & Professional Banking’ division, based in Sydney.

Becoming a property investor

With a wife and two daughters, a home and three investment properties, life was OK. He earned a good salary and package from the bank, however like many other Aussies they survived basically month to month with little prospect of obtaining real long term financial wealth and stability. He came to realise that it was likely he would be forever ‘dependent’ on that job.

So, from the spare bedroom of their home Kevin started educating himself ‘financially’ by acquiring & absorbing every book and industry paper he could get his hands on, and attending hundreds of hours of investment, business & property seminars.

Along the way he un-wittingly created a rather unique property investment strategy to help them start putting some ‘runs on the board’. At the same time Kevin developed his fledgling Smartline finance business into what is today, one of the most successful practices in Australia.

From those humble beginnings, based on word of mouth referrals alone, he has built a base of loyal clients who began to prosper by following his advice & property investment strategies. Since 1999 the Smartline franchise has gone from strength to strength, operating for the past five years from its own professional offices in the Sydney suburb of Pennant Hills. That point is worth repeating: all this on word of mouth referrals alone.

It’s this investment property strategy - along with their years of knowledge & experience - that allows Smart Property Adviser to assist people from all walks of life, in their quest to achieve financial security.

Sharing our property investment success

Our client testimonials reinforce that you are the focus of our business, and that our team understands what has to be done and then gets it done, keeping you informed at every step of the way. Clients continually tell us that we listen; that we work with you to achieve what you want.

Kevin leads by example, having purchased twelve investment properties of his own. This may not seem many in the eyes of some people; however it pays to remember that this modest portfolio is self funding. Considered to be a ‘safe’ portfolio, it has been achieved in the main ‘without supporting his tenants’ lifestyle. This last phrase is important – think for a moment how many investors were crushed during the GFC because their investment properties were negatively geared during that period? It’s an undeniable fact that tens of thousands of investment properties were sold [dumped] on to a poor market because their owners could no longer continue to support his or her tenant’s lifestyle.

As a privately owned company operating nationally, Smart Property Adviser is uniquely positioned within the residential property investment sector because unlike so many so called advisers, we do not sell property and do not act as a buyer’s agent. Our entire focus is on educating, advising and helping you to become a successful, long term property investor with a ‘safe’ portfolio of residential properties.

Unfortunately the media regularly features stories about individuals and organisations operating within the property investment industry, who adopt … what I’ll politely refer to as an ‘unethical approach to business’. Smart Property Adviser’s values are founded on our ethics and the trust we’ve earned from a large long standing client base. Your success is our key driver.

If you'd like the support of a national company, then please make an Appointment to speak with a Smart Property Adviser today.