Episode 105 – Ryan Houston | Real Estate, Health, Leadership

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In this episode I speak with Ryan Houston, who turned a successful rugby league career into a successful one in real estate. We speak about how to look at your career as a sport, why you need to maintain all three pillars of health and the massive changes happening in the local real estate market.

Ryan is a partner at PRD Newcastle Lake Macquarie, lover of all sports, health and wellbeing conscious and now he’s navigating the new world of parenting.
We speak about Ryan’s transition from rugby to working with kids in American summer camps, to his journey in real estate and we get a feel for just how passionate he is about Newcastle and all the changes happening here. A must listen-to if you are interested in this stunning place!

Key episode highlights include:

  • In real estate you are constantly wrestling every day. And you need to be fit in all three aspects (physically, mentally, emotionally) to ensure that you’re going to be the best every single day.
  • There’s no wealth without health.
  • Everything that I learned from the sporting scene has been translated to the real estate or business scene, and I feel like that’s why every day I can wake up with great energy, and I can be more proactive than reactive.
  • You never know if you don’t ask, you never know if you don’t do.

If you want to connect further with Ryan, the best place to find him is on Instagram @ryanhoustonprd.

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Transcript

Murray Guest  

Ryan, welcome to the podcast, so good to see you.

 

Ryan Houston  

Yes. Likewise, Murray, great to see you again.

 

Murray Guest  

Yeah, right. Ah, it’s been a, I don’t know how many times in every episode I have been saying it this year it’s been such a interesting, unique, what else are we using, unprecedented time. How have you been finding the last, you know, even six months.

 

Ryan Houston  

Okay, in our game right now Murray it’s it’s what we call harvest time. It’s been a beautiful, beautiful time as in business I’m talking about in particular my six months personally has been very different, we’ve just introduced our first baby, which is incredible. She’s six months old so what this time has done as well is, yes the lockdown so I’ve been impacted and it’s been very sad, there’s no doubt about it but that extra time at home, I’ve been able to spend some quality time with the family and have really enjoyed it. So for me, personally, sounds a little bit selfish but it’s been a really good six months.

 

Murray Guest  

Yeah, I mean, congratulations on the, on the bub and how’s the sleep.

 

Yeah, not much. I don’t know if there’s any tricks of the trade Murray, you can share with me but there’s there’s not much going on but you just got to keep powering through.

 

Murray Guest  

Well, I’ve got three and mine are much older than yours, obviously, but I still remember some, I think my first Mia I think she didn’t really sleep for three years so I hope yours gets better than that.

 

Ryan Houston  

Wow, yeah it’s it’s a it’s a beautiful journey but when you when they wake up properly, and they give you that big smile you just forget about what happened that night and you just keep going on with the day and it’s the most beautiful thing.

 

Murray Guest  

And it’s one of those things I reckon that to explain to someone what it’s like to become a parent is so hard to put into words. And then when you feel it, it’s just the most amazing thing.

 

Ryan Houston  

Yeah. Couldn’t agree more.

 

Murray Guest  

Yeah, so yeah it’s good perspective you’ve got and that grateful attitude that whilst yes it has been tough for so many people to have this time with the family, with Bub, with your fiance, connecting. Yeah so beautiful, so now I’m going to say I’m out of the, the loop of the development stages, where is Parker when it comes to walking and all that sort of stuff, six months not yet maybe, no.

 

Ryan Houston  

No, just learnt to sit on her own without any assistance and she’s looking around and she’s really liking that, she’s nailed the on belly and rolling and stuff now that’s been a recent thing in the last few weeks. I believe the next, next thing is they’re starting to talk and also walk, so I think we’re still a few months away from that.

 

Murray Guest  

Yeah, yeah, great, great, it’s all coming back to me now. So my tips for you and our listeners one definitely just take the sleep when you can get it. Yep, whenever that is. And honestly, the book that helped our third child was save our sleep SOS. It’s got some really good strategies in there, when it gets tough when they’re 18 months to two years old, and just helped us get really clear, around how to create some good sleeping habits and patterns, it made a big difference.

 

Ryan Houston  

Excellent I’ll write that one down. I’m sure my fiance knows about it, but I’ll make sure that I get a read of it anyway, it might help me.

 

Murray Guest  

Yeah right yeah no trouble at all. Um, and so, health is something that I really want to talk to you about today. I know it’s something that’s really important to you and helps you, you know, have that energy and we need to invest in our health when we’ve got a lack of sleep or broken sleep, and your journey to focusing on health, as a person, is it something that’s been important to you for a long time or where does that come from.

 

Ryan Houston  

Yeah, very, very early on I think I was just very lucky that it was instilled in me as a kid, and health was always the big draw card we always eat healthy, our veggies and our proteins and all that good stuff, but my background was always sport, if there was an industry I always wanting to get into with some sort of sport or team or anything to do with sport I absolutely loved it, rugby league was really the focus, but anything with a ball or any sort of sport is what I love so off the back of that, you know, I wasn’t going out all the time because I knew that the next day was training, so I would make sure that I would be drinking nice water and making sure I’m eating beautiful food and produce to ensure that the engine room, the motor, is in pristine condition when it came to that training or fitness field, yeah.

 

Murray Guest  

Yeah. And it’s funny, I was talking to my mum the other day and I don’t know if your upbringing was similar to mine, I said mom did avocados exist in the 80s, because we never saw one, you know, meat and three veg, was it was your upbringing, a bit like that, or?

 

Ryan Houston  

Yeah, well, now, wait, wait, I know what you’re saying I don’t recall too many avocados but mum assures me that they are always, always in the salads, but they were cut up really fine and I now just have a big avo and just whack it straight on the plate, but not either always cut fine in the salad so I have asked the same question. Yeah, but they’re superfood, there’s no doubt about it. 

 

Murray Guest  

It was clear there was no kale in the 80s, kale just didn’t exist. So rugby league where did your rugby league career take you.

 

Ryan Houston  

Yeah. Well, originally, Toronto Macquarie Scorpions, they’re just a local league, played a bit of grade, well fair bit of grade there for most of my junior life then my best mate Jonathan Ford he got a contract to go to Toulouse at the south of France, and I finished my apprenticeship as a plumber, and I thought, Well, what a great opportunity. I made a few phone calls I mean I wasn’t a superstar. By no means. I had to, I wasn’t getting poached to come on over. I actually had to make a few phone calls and introduce myself and I got a gig with the reserve grade over there, and they said look, you can come on over, we got you, pay you a little bit, we’ll put you up in a place anyway so I just packed my bags and went over and it’s actually a bit of a long story but I’ll shorten it. What happened, what happened in the end was the, the Nathan Ross who we spoke about just before, he actually at training injured his hamstring. Now, I was sitting on the sidelines, because the first day we’re training, and his boot size is the same as mine, my best mate Johno said, Ryan, did you want to come and fill in, because Nathan’s the same position as me as fullback. So I actually grabbed Nathan’s boots, and it was actually going on a training run was an oppose session against a junior team, and I just had a really good trial game in that game because Johno and me grew up at school together and we played really well and then that afternoon, the coach come to me and said, Look, why don’t you stay for the whole season. Come and be in the first grade squad, we’ll train you feed you put you in a place, and that was a beautiful phone call to make to my parents when I was able to sort of get told that I was going to be in the in the squad and and to stay there for the entire season with the likes of Nathan Ross, Eloni Vunakece  who went on to play for the roosters as well so it was a great squad and really good quality and a great time of my life, a big big eye-opening time of my life, it was great.

 

Murray Guest  

So does Ross dog owe you? Or is that that ledger been, you know squared off.

 

Ryan Houston  

Well hey I owe him really, thankfully he tore his hammy because otherwise I probably would have been sitting in in reserve grade squad, and probably not, I would have had to go and get my own accommodation and car and all that sort of stuff and allowance. If it wasn’t for that moment, I wouldn’t have had that opportunity and wouldn’t have gotten to that, that squad which then allowed me to travel to England and play against Batley Bulldogs and London Broncos and all of that. If it wasn’t for that defining moment so hey, it’s everything happens for a reason.

 

Murray Guest  

And so, how old were you at that at stage?

 

Ryan Houston  

I was 22.

 

Murray Guest  

22, getting to live in the south of France doing what you love. What was that like well I got, what, you know, I can imagine culture and food and scenery.

 

Ryan Houston  

Yeah look, it was, it was the thing that I could put it down to was it was like a dream come true. It was something that I always wanted to do. I always wanted to travel and play footy and I was actually able to do both, and it was just a great moment and I really looking back now that we can’t travel, I’m so grateful for that time because I got a lot of my travel out of my system, and I got to see some great places and meet some great friends and you know, people say that you know social media and that sort of addictive, but I like the social media in fact cause I’ve got so many good friends who are still there, I can still connect and I love that. I love that aspect that’s great. Yeah.

 

Murray Guest  

The, the drive you had to chase that, and to make those phone calls, as you said you weren’t sort of poached but you had the drive to to go, how does that drive help you now. And, is that still there do you think.

 

Ryan Houston  

Look, I really think that, you know, I’m in real estate. I really think that it’s just another sport, it’s how it feels like to me, it’s a competitive sport, you need to be fit, physically, mentally, emotionally in every single day, because there’s a lot of competition you’re up against your, you’re in the middle of a transaction where you’ve got vendor who wants the very best price, you want buyer who wants the very least price. You are constantly, every day, wrestling, and you need to be fit, you need to be fit in all those three aspects to ensure that you’re going to be the best every single day, and that’s where I love the job I do because it really relates very much so, to the sport like rugby league or any sport, because it requires training, requires hard work, it requires discipline, and that’s why I think that in the real estate career, it’s going quite well with with how it’s tracking at the moment.

 

Murray Guest  

Yeah yeah yeah, great, I love that analogy around, you know that that drive that passion and, and what I hear when you talk through that too it’s not just how you turn up for a transaction, it’s all the things you’re doing before that, after that, to look after yourself, so you can be the best all the time. And how do you do that now, like if there’s some health tips or some ways that you know that really work for you that you know are powerful for other people, what would they be.

 

Ryan Houston  

Yeah so health tips that I would give look I think the key thing, the absolute key thing that I found is that you’ve got to remember that your health is your, your, there’s no wealth without health, that that’s the absolute key so what I’m getting at there is the fact is, you still need a treat, even though I’m not playing sport at the highest level. I’m playing real estate at the highest level, right. So, what required to that is I still need to feed myself with the best produce out there organic good proteins, good, good vegetables good fats like avocado, all that good stuff. You need to be keeping the food coming in, you also need to be exerting yourself you need to be going, exercising, because that’s going to help you not only physically but more importantly mentally it’s going to give you that escape. So, everything that I learned from the sporting scene, it’s just been translated to the real estate or business scene, and I feel like that that’s why every day I can wake up with great energy, I can be more proactive than reactive. I’m not sort of, you know, dragging myself out of bed late, and you know just waiting for the phone to call or anything like that I’m coming in the office I’m absolutely pumped up to pick up the phone, find new opportunities and do what’s best for my clients so that’s why it is so important so the tip, there is, you need to eat, like you’re like if you own, if you this is a good analogy. If you paid $2 million for a Lamborghini, you would only put the best fuel in there is no doubt about it. Yeah, so why, why, when people say oh you know I’ve been eating shit, I go, Well why? Why would you? Your body is worth more than a Lamborghini, I can assure you only get one of them you can’t buy another one. So you better put your best fuel in because you want to be working at the highest capacity you possibly can so that’s where I think the biggest tips are, you know, eat healthy, you need to train hard.

 

Murray Guest  

Yeah, I don’t know who said it, and I reckon you’ve heard this quote and I wish I could remember who said it, but it was basically, you can’t train your way out of a bad diet.

 

Ryan Houston  

Yeah, yeah, that’s a good one. Yeah, no doubt. Yep, totally agree.

 

Murray Guest  

Hey, I’m just to go back a bit. Tell me, how did things finish up in France and you found your way back to Australia.

 

Ryan Houston  

Yeah, well look, I had another contract lined up with another club called Villeneuve with another guy called Brendan Werth who’s locally around here as well, The Truck they call him, big front rower. And anyway, what happened was the French club they done a restructure and he no longer was going to work there so I was like well what am I going to do, another opportunity came up in America, funny enough, and it was like an ad on Facebook and said, Are you positive, do you want to work with kids and assist them in their journey in life. Press here enquire now for summer camps, USA. So I applied, I got a job as a waterskiing and wakeboard instructor, because as a kid I’d done a lot of waterskiing wakeboarding I never taught it but I knew a lot about it, I drove boats. So, yeah, I got the interview, it was a bit of a long process interview but I got the job I didn’t know anyone there. I went there and I met this Englishman at the airport, who was my buddy, and yeah I was there for the next six months in, located in Maine in the northeast of America, just above like Massachusetts and all that, and yeah, I was there for six months and wow, what an incredible journey and I was the only Aussie in the camp but it was a fantastic, fantastic journey I loved it.

 

Murray Guest  

The summer camps are really big in America aren’t they, they’re massive.

 

Ryan Houston  

Massive, and the money is incredible. We had Jerry Seinfeld’s kid there, we had Salma  Hayek’s kid there. I think off memory, I’m pretty sure for four weeks it was 12 grand of for a kid to go to this camp, it was a very high end camp, we had top of the range Malibu boats which are the proper ski boats we had four of them, like it was, it was the bee’s knees, and it was fantastic. We had a lot of celebrity kids in our camp.

 

Murray Guest  

Yeah. What did you, what do you reckon you got out of that time that you will bring into your parenting.

 

Ryan Houston  

Yeah, look, I think the biggest thing was patience. I remember I was always put in with, I found that I had a pretty good skill with with mentoring and coaching back then, and I guess because of my sporting background, a lot of kids want to be a sports person that’s what I found and I think that kids who they get frustrated easily, and I was finding that I had a few really good kids who were really into their sports because, you know, I was the waterski and wakeboard but also helped out in tennis and cricket and rugby league and soccer and I’ve done a bit of everything, but what I, what I noticed with the kids was, if you can give them patience and listen to what they’re really after. I found that it was really, really beneficial and really worked for me so the biggest tip for me was to listen with my two ears and one mouth so listen more than I speak, and to just really instill that if you follow the right process and system. So if a kid’s training hard and he’s doing all the right things, just be patient, because the success will come, so they’re probably the two big things patients and system and process and time.

 

Murray Guest  

Mate they’re fantastic attributes to have as a parent, as you go keep that patience, can get challenging, but yeah.

 

Ryan Houston  

I felt that a few times at 3am when I’m rocking but I just.

 

Murray Guest  

The thing that jumps out to me too with your journey is you taking action, you seeing opportunity and going right there’s opportunity. I’m going to take action. So, when I work with people though sometimes they get in that mode of I’m worried, I don’t know if I will take the action I won’t take forward and that lack of courage. How do you think we tap into that courage to when there is that opportunity that we take action. How do we do that.

 

Ryan Houston  

Yeah, look, I, I think, yes, that’s a strength. However, I do have a weakness as well, and my weakness is detail. So, my, and when you look at like the DISC profiles and all of that stuff which I know you know very well I’m very high in the I and the D and my C is like so low, so like, naturally, inbuilt in me is I rather do, and then, you know, forgive later, and where I feel that each skill set is good for different jobs or different avenues, but I really think that, in my personal opinion once again is, is, is, is, you never know if you don’t ask, or you never know if you don’t do. So I would rather know, so that’s why I take the action, and then worry about the consequence later, and how I can give a tip to a person who has got the C in the DISC I think that’s where you might have to come in Murray and really give them that advice because, for me personally, I know what works for me and how to take action and worry about the details later but I know it’s very much harder for that different person to do that.

 

Murray Guest  

Yeah, I guess the thing that’s jumping out to me is when you’ve got the right people around you and I know at PRD you’ve got a strong team that support and the people within the team that bring the C that bring the S, that bring the systems and processes to support so that you can do what you do.

 

Ryan Houston  

And, and that’s a really good point, yeah exactly, everyone’s got a very clear job description and everyone’s got their exact swim lanes and you’re right, everyone’s segregated into them swim lanes so it’s like a nice big organization that works absolutely effectively so the, the D’s and the I’s can make the action and make the big moves and all that, but then you’ve got the support of the, the C’s to make sure that you know the photos are absolutely Mickey Mouse and copywriting is absolutely perfect.

 

Murray Guest  

It’s just like the fullbacks the fullback but sometimes they might run the ball up and but then they’re the fullback.

 

Ryan Houston  

Well, that’s exactly right. Yeah, exactly. There’s no point having a front rower, you know, kicking in play.

 

Murray Guest  

Oh, well, it’s funny, we’ve seen that and sometimes works but not often. Um, I know how passionate you are about real estate and Newcastle and I was catching up with a client yesterday, and a very strong Newcastle business, and we were chatting about the change in Newcastle, so we’ve grown up in this area and it’s just so exciting so energizing. Over the last decade, seeing the cranes in the city and then the buildings coming around and then and what’s happening. Isn’t it amazing. 

 

Ryan Houston  

Look it’s unbelievable we’re really no longer that steel and coal mining town I mean, it has changed astronomically and being a, you know, proud Novacastrian myself, born and bred. It is now an education, a health, a construction, a RAAF like Williamtown airport, like we’ve got International Airport, we’ve got defense. We’ve got so many sectors now that is creating this beautiful economy so you know the local coffee shop is now bursting at the seams because of all this money that’s being private and public investment into the area. So it’s now creating not only that, as an economy, economic powerhouse, we are also a lifestyle city where we’ve got beaches, we’ve got harbors, we’ve got lakes, we’ve got excellent parks, we’ve got the Hunter Valley, we’ve got Nelson Bay, like we are right in the middle of like an absolute, you know, in a dream location, some of the photos you see going down looking at Newcastle, you could be in Greece, you just, you know, the the the visuals are incredible. So, we are we are so lucky and I really think that that’s why we are seeing so much more demand that’s coming from Sydney and Armidale and Dubbo and Orange all these areas are wanting a piece of Newcastle, there’s no doubt about it.

 

Murray Guest  

Yeah and, well, I think some of my clients that I’ve been talking to in the past I’d say they had trouble attracting people to Newcastle to come and work here, whereas now there is a different energy and a different as you say a different frame of perception. I had clients years ago saying Oh Newcastle I would never go there, or, or have you gone electricity yet, I said Yeah we do. Thanks, it’s fine. I still remember it’s funny, it was a must have been like six, seven years ago maybe eight I don’t know, but I was flying somewhere, and the in flight magazine in the aeroplane, had an article about, you know, get your weekend away in Newcastle and I was like this is fantastic but do we want everyone to come. Yeah we do. But you know. But to finally see that and start to shift. It’s so good.

 

Ryan Houston  

It’s, it’s unbelievable and I think it’s only going to get, and some people might like it, some people don’t like you said, but I really think that population wise density wise demand wise. Everything that we’re seeing and what our research department’s saying PRD property research development. They’re saying that some look we’re gonna see a lot more people coming here and making it home. Yeah.

 

Murray Guest  

What what do you, what are you seeing, around the, the uptake and the interest in apartments because the, I feel like that that’s, that’s been massive for the city.

 

Ryan Houston  

The start of this year January 2021 out of all of Australia, Newcastle had the most cranes or, you know, big birds they call them in the industry, up in the sky we had six up in the sky, which is huge, okay for a regional town, Newcastle. Now, what that’s done and the biggest question I get is, Ryan are we going to see an oversupply in the market? Now in 2017 or 2018 the state government New South Wales released a document called the greater metropolitan plan of 2036. Now that greater metropolitan planning 2036 you can Google it, you can have a read, they’re saying between now and 2036 there’s going to be 56,000 new people make Newcastle their home. Now just to give you an idea. We’ve got majority of the market, we’ve probably got 70% of the market in the off-the-plan space. And we’re carrying about 800 apartments, two people each, each apartment that’s about 1600 people. There’s a lot of, lot more demand than supply that we’re seeing with, you know the RAAF base alone announcing 8500 jobs between now and 2036. Like that’s just one industry. Yeah, we’ve got universities, education, we’ve got health, we’ve got big firms like NIB, and we’ve got solicitor firms like DWF and Spark Helmore, these are big employers, and now Newcastle has them at home. So that’s where I think that a lot of demand, so yeah you’re right units have been very popular, and no doubt about it and some people say it’s over supply. Look, I’m looking around we nearly sold out, we need more.

 

Murray Guest  

Yeah. Um. Where do you see, or what do you do you can you put yourself in the future and see what you can see what Newcastle is going to look like in 2036, or you like waiting to see or do you have a vision for that yourself?

 

Ryan Houston  

Yeah I do, I do, I think we’re going to be a very, we’re gonna have two really strong demographics, one being the downsizer who’s gonna snap up a lot of the north facing apartments along honeysuckle and the East End and up at Newcastle East I mean, even down, Newcastle West and Wickham. But not only that, we’re going to see this this specific buyer, right, this is this specific buyer. Newcastle’s always been a fantastic educator of kids right, Callaghan campus is one of the best in Australia, top three, I believe. We now have Honeysuckle campus, Nihon University and NUspace so we’ve got four live universities, a lot of those guys have had to go to Sydney to get the big job, right, accountant and financial advisor, solicitor, all of that. What’s happened now is, those guys now who have bought that one bed or two bed apartment down in Maroubra, and it’s now worth 1.4 million, they’re now saying Well hold on a second. My parents still live here in Newcastle. I’ve made all these friends down here in Sydney as well. I’m going to actually come back to Newcastle and buy a beautiful three bedroom brick home in Merewether for example, for 1.4 million, and have the perfect family home now what’s going to happen is their friends as well I think they’re going to come with them. So I think in the future, we’re going to have in the suburbs Merewether, Hamilton South, Adamstown all these sort of just outer ring suburbs, we’re gonna have a lot of young families I think we’re gonna have quite a young demographic in those areas. But then when you come to the CBD I think we’re gonna have a quite an older demographic of people from the farms, who are seeing some great times at the moment in the farmland, they’ll come to Newcastle and have a piece of the pie for a little holiday destination, a little one bedroom unit facing north over the harbor. So my envision is we’re gonna see two main demographics, and I really think that we’re going to have a real young, vibrant economy here in Newcastle which is going to be a real source of opportunity for everyone who comes here.

 

Murray Guest  

Oh, mate. That sounds exciting. And I can see that I, I’ve actually was just commenting last weekend too about the shift in the multicultural nature in Newcastle, you know, growing up when we did it wasn’t as multicultural, far from it than what it is now, and that brings this vibrancy and there’s this connection and the diversity and, and, in a whole range of ways and I’m loving seeing that in the town now as well.

 

Ryan Houston  

Yeah, fantastic and you see it with a lot of the sporting clubs as well. Yeah, we’re seeing a lot more of the, the diversity that’s happening and it’s just once again it’s great to the area, there’s no doubt about that.

 

Murray Guest  

If the government gave you $100 million to, to spend somewhere in Newcastle, what would you do with it.

 

Ryan Houston  

Jeez, it’s a great question, sort of hit me from the side there. But, look, I think that one thing that is very much in need, here in Newcastle is a some sort of direct, direct link to the airport, whether it be light rail or heavy rail. I think that’s a real key element. And I remember meeting with Kirby one of the head guys up at the airport, up at Fort Scratchley, and he said that this was about a year ago, he said that, Newcastle is the seventh biggest city in Australia, however with the 11th biggest airport. His goal was to make it seventh biggest city seventh biggest airport, it makes sense. So now that we’re an international airport we’re gonna have direct links over to Asia, Singapore, Hong Kong, you know, we’ve got direct links to Auckland we’re gonna have direct links to Indonesia, all that good stuff. I think for the economy, I think it’s just an absolute must to get a direct link to the airport. I know that there is a parcel of land between Hexham and Williamtown that Port Stephens City Council and Newcastle City Council co-own. There is a big aviation space and industrial space going there. But look, I’d love to somehow integrate some sort of link so I think that would cost probably 100 million so I think that’ll help everyone.

 

Murray Guest  

I think 100 million might start it, I think, rail is not cheap, that’s for sure but yeah now I think I’ve often thought that and when I worked up at Tomago Aluminium, I thought, you know, the rail up heading up there to that business park and to the airport of course would make sense. Yeah, I think of that. The other thing I think about is that that whole redevelopment of the Broadmeadow space, and that coming alive to you know to match the standard that the stadium’s at now.

 

Ryan Houston  

Yeah, well look, there isn’t that exciting. There’s a lot of land out there and I mean once again if you want to if someone wants to reach out I’ve got a document that’s done from the state government, giving you future light rail options and one of the main stops is from Wickham to Broadmeadow stadium because that is an International Stadium, and that’s going to be an absolute hub of high quality performance. It’s going to be an absolute incredible creator of new future athletes, And then, that all that land is just gonna be prime land right in the middle of, realistically, Newcastle and Lake Macquarie so it’s gonna be fantastic.

 

Murray Guest  

Yeah, and I don’t know if you saw there was a recent upgrade to Hunter Sports Stadium announced as well.

 

Ryan Houston  

I did, $10 million upgrade and once again you know my passion for sport and athletics and everything to do with it. I just think that’s so good. We’re gonna attract new talent, we’re gonna attract new sponsors, and it’s just going to be a beautiful thing for the economy as a whole.

 

Murray Guest  

Yeah. Um, you talk about sport, have you dabbled or are you getting or thinking about coaching?

 

Ryan Houston  

Yeah, it’s one of my big things I really want to do it. One thing in real estate is you got to work Saturdays, that’s one thing. But, look, you can create whatever you want if you put your mind to it. So, look, I’d love, I’d love to coach I don’t know, whatever it needs to be, you know, it doesn’t have to be with my daughter, it could be with anything but I’d love to get back to rugby league and go back to what taught me or even athletics, you know, teach people how to run correctly and I’ve got a lot of coaching in that as well so, soccer, I mean I’ve got so much passion for sports, it’s something that I really love and since the summer camps and I’ve always had a passion for it is to mentor and coach and yeah it’s something very high on my priorities. However, at this stage at this current stage in my life, it’s all about me, my family and the business, and it’s definitely on the goals to coach one day.

 

Murray Guest  

I used to coach my daughter’s netball team when she was a teenager, and honestly it was fantastic. It was so good. I still remember where I was when I first started, I went right, I’ve worked out all these drills, we’re going to run drills and I’m going through this big explanation, over explaining the drills what we need to do. Now, I rattled on for way too long. And I said okay we ready and this girl comes up and she goes, Muzza I’ve broken a finger nail, and I was like, not even been listening to me and I thought I just got to make it much simpler.

 

Ryan Houston  

Yeah, yeah, yeah, I’m looking forward to, yeah, that that exact thing to happen.

 

Murray Guest  

Yeah it was great. It was great. Well, I want to just encourage our listeners that are interested in Newcastle and investing in Newcastle and want to know more about the property market reach out to Ryan and connect with him. He is the go to man, he knows and is, as you can hear from his energy and enthusiasm he knows what’s going on but brings that authenticity and honesty to what he does and mate it’s been so great to chat today.

 

Ryan Houston  

Likewise, Murray, thanks so much for having me on. I really appreciate the invitation. I’ve really enjoyed it. And yeah, if anyone does have any questions, please reach out to me anytime on phone, socials, you can give all my details, no problems I’m an open book.

 

Murray Guest  

Yeah, where’s the best place online for them to reach out to you.

 

Ryan Houston  

Yeah, look the best place is my Instagram, Ryan Houston and it’s spelt like Houston, Houston, Texas, but it’s actually a house that weighs a ton house that weighs a ton. So remember that. Ryan Houston PRD I do a daily suburb under the spotlight through Newcastle Lake Macquarie each day. I do all the stats I give a synopsis of the suburb and my input on it as well so if you want to get educated. That’s probably the best place to be. You can direct message me on there as well all my number and emails on there as well so that’s probably the best Ryan Houston PRD.

 

Murray Guest  

Yeah great and and that explanation just there shows again why you’re such a great person to reach out to because you have your finger on the pulse of what’s happening now and the future plans and, and you’re bringing that insight to everything you do so, thank you mate. And to wrap us up. What’s your definition of inspired energy.

 

Ryan Houston  

Yeah definition of inspired energy is, look, I think that energy is obviously number one you need to go into a room with ultimate energy every time because you can actually change a room with your energy whether it’s high or low. So, inspired energy I think is the good side so inspired energy is when you’re walking into that room, and when you walk into that room, everyone looks and goes, holy smokes my day has now gotten better, because of this guy just walked in with his inspired energy, so that’s mine.

 

Murray Guest  

I love that. Yes, and, and in true honesty, you bring that mate, you do.

 

Ryan Houston  

Thanks Murray appreciate it.

 

Murray Guest  

Well thank you, all the best for this busy time of the year this spring time I know it’s important time of the year for real estate, hope all goes well, and you and the family stay safe and healthy and look forward to seeing you soon.

 

Ryan Houston  

Likewise Murray. Thank you again.

 

Murray Guest  

Thanks mate.

 

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