Centurion - Taking stock of the Rand and South Africa

Wed Mar 8, 18:00 - Wed Mar 8, 21:30

Leriba Hotel

ABOUT

SA Property Investors Network and Real Estate Investor magazine would like to invite you and your partner to our property investor networking event in Centurion on 8th of March 2017.

The aim of the SA Property Investors Network community is to educate and share opportunities with property investors throughout South Africa. Be ready to embrace this amazing networking and educational opportunity...

TITLE:
Taking stock of the Rand and South Africa, how did we get here and where to now?

GUEST SPEAKER:
Andrew Rissik

Andrew grew up in South Africa, where he was schooled at Michaelhouse and then completed his Economics degree at the University of Stellenbosch. He served as an officer in the South African Navy before completing his management training with Mc Carthy Group, part of Anglo American Corporation. He then relocated to their UK operation in 1994. After this he was involved in several private equity deals with UK and SA investors before returning to South Africa in 2004. He established a company that facilitated the investment of UK client funds into the emerging South African property market and successfully sold his interests in 2011 before being appointed to head up Sable Group’s Global Forex business and more recently their South African Immigration business. Outside of work Andrew is a keen sailor who has competed internationally and spends many weekends away either sailing or enjoying the outdoors with his wife and two children. Andrew’s motto: "Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself"

EVENT DETAILS

TITLE
Taking stock of the Rand and South Africa, how did we get here and where to now?
GUEST SPEAKER
Andrew Rissik

Andrew grew up in South Africa, where he was schooled at Michaelhouse and then completed his Economics degree at the University of Stellenbosch. He served as an officer in the South African Navy before completing his management training with Mc Carthy Group, part of Anglo American Corporation. He then relocated to their UK operation in 1994. After this he was involved in several private equity deals with UK and SA investors before returning to South Africa in 2004. He established a company that facilitated the investment of UK client funds into the emerging South African property market and successfully sold his interests in 2011 before being appointed to head up Sable Group’s Global Forex business and more recently their South African Immigration business. Outside of work Andrew is a keen sailor who has competed internationally and spends many weekends away either sailing or enjoying the outdoors with his wife and two children. Andrew’s motto: "Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself"
DATE
8th March 2017
TIME
1800 to 2130
Registration starts from 1800
Event starts from 1830
ADDRESS
Leriba Hotel
245 End St
Clubview
Centurion
0157
CONTACT DETAILS
Name: Bronwyn
Cell: 079 901 6001
Email: [email protected]
TICKET
R170 per person
HOST
Andrew Walker
Property Investor, Coach & Entrepreneur

Andrew is a very proud husband, father of two beautiful children, an investor, a coach and an entrepreneur. He is a successful global property investor and is proud to say that his time is his own and therefore he has flexibility to do the things that he wants. He has over fifteen years of experience in property investment and business management in South Africa and the United Kingdom.

He is a professional property investor and currently the Chief Commercial Officer for United Kingdom Property Partners, Property Sourcing Agent and Director for Investing North, Franchisor and Director at Letsand Property Management, Property Investor and Director at We Buy Your Home, Property Coach and Director at Freedom Through Property and Host and Director for SA Property Investors Network.

Let’s just rewind the clock. Andrew has always been entrepreneurial, from delivering newspapers in his local area at the age of twelve to starting his first business – a Sound Engineering Company – at the ripe age of fifteen!

From a young age Andrew always knew that property was the way forward. He bought his first investment property in Durban at the age of twenty-one and when he sold it for three times the amount that he paid for it, this sparked his interest in property investment. 

Andrew and his wife, Simone, then decided to move to the United Kingdom in 2005, for an intended one-year trip, which ended up being an incredible and life changing eight-year journey.

Andrew has always believed in getting educated, in both 2006 and 2014 he embarked upon a journey of education and mentorship with Mathew Sneddon (2006) and Harry Barclay (2014). Mathew and Harry are both lead property investment mentors within the United Kingdom and helped accelerate Andrews property portfolio.

With Mathews help, Andrew managed to purchase his first property investment in North East Lincolnshire, United Kingdom without using any of his own money. Andrew describes his first property as a dirty smelly run down house, which he purchased using bridge finance, credit cards and the local councils money. Following the refurbishment, he then remortgage the property and pull every penny back out the deal. To this day Andrew still has this property which gives him a neat little cash flow of £160 per month. 

Following on from this deal he got hooked on the idea of using other peoples money and remortgaging properties to allow him to purchase the next one. 

Since then he has personally bought over 50 properties across the United Kingdom and South Africa. Recently he has divested from some of his properties in South Africa. Along his journey he has helped international clients do the same and has personally been involved in over 500 property transactions to date.

Andrews motto is build a solid foundation first, he compares it to climbing the corporate ladder. When you get into the corporate world you start from the bottom, Andrew says it’s the same in property, you start from the bottom, get the experience and confidence and then climb the property ladder.

He spent seven out of his eight years in the United Kingdom building his property businesses. In 2010, he cofounded two property related business with Dave Portas, which he continues to grow today, that turned over in excess of £100,000 in their first year. Investing North Ltd, an ethical investment property sourcing company, focussing on building cash flowing property portfolios for likeminded property investors and Letsand Property Management, a successful property management business, employing several staff, which is now fully systemised.

Andrew believes that everyone should have balance in their life and after have two kids, Simone and Andrew decided to move back to South African in 2013. Andrew now spends a lot of time in the United Kingdom where he continues to grow his portfolio and helping others do the same. 

Andrew saw a gap in the market for running networking events for property investors in South Africa. He started his first event in November 2013 with only 10 people in the room. At this event he met his South African Business Partner, Warren Brusse, where together they have built a network of over 50 000 people in South Africa. This is by far the largest networking community in South Africa and Andrew has said he wont stop until he has atleast 500 000 investors in the network!

Andrew one passion is to help people as he gets a buzz from it, so he decided to start coaching and teaching in what he believes in - PROPERTY!

In 2016, Andrew cofounded a private equity partnership based business focused on helping people invest in high yielding residential investments within the United Kingdom.