GLOBAL JOURNEY TO SUCCESS

Brought up in a family of “risk averse” scientists, and with no early grounding in property investment, Claire Alderton had to forge her own path. The expat Londoner (and runner-up for NZPIF Landlord of the Year) has been an investor for 19 years. Her career has spanned property investment and property management, and she’s spent huge amounts of time educating herself around the minutiae of the trade.

Alderton was working in the film industry as an assistant director in London (“I was the youngest person in this role by around 15 years”) when she purchased her first investment property. She was 26.

She’d long been interested in the creation of wealth, and realised the financially successful people she