NZ Property Investor

BORN TO BE WISE

Some people are born to save. By the age of 18, Ben Connor had saved $10,000 by serving drinks at tennis tournaments and working in an ice-cream shop.

And it's this sense of money that underpins Connor's success as an investor – aged 33 he has seven houses over five properties and he's looking at ways to create more value in the property he already owns.

Although his family weren't property investors, from a young age he knew this was the direction he wanted to go in. “I had a friend whose dad

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