I started out with nothing & don’t even know my birthday – now I’m a multimillionaire with my own Lamborghini
FROM fleeing war-torn Afghanistan to a high-flying property mogul – Zed Nasheet has seen the world from all angles.
The once-refugee now leaves his £2.5million Melbourne home each day to drive to work in his £250k Lamborghini where he sells multi-million pound houses for Australia’s elite in minutes.
Thirty-something Nasheet, who doesn’t know his exact birthday, now runs the mega-successful Zed Real Estate with his three brothers.
He also keeps himself busy being a rising internet star – which even helps him to sell even more houses.
His flamboyant personality and glitzy life has garnered him over 500k followers on social media, and he is in the middle of negotiating with the creators of Million Dollar Listing to co-produce his own version Down Under.
“People love me, the camera just loves me,” Nasheet told RealEstate.com.au.
“I dedicate my life to real estate 100 per cent. I’m single and I’m not looking for anyone. My work comes first, my company comes first.”
He says he holds the record for selling a house in the shortest time, rides around in a private jet, collects luxury cars and proclaims himself as a the fastest “zelling” agent in the world.
The real estate superstar is motivated by a desire to inspire others and show them that success can come to anyone who wants to put in the work.
Nasheet’s family fled Afghanistan when he was six-months-old following the Taliban takeover.
Along with uncles, aunts, cousins and grandparents, they left their relatively affluent and stable life to cross into Pakistan by foot as refugees – now penniless and homeless.
“There were 19 of us living in a two-room house for over 10 years,” he told the Mail.
“My father had been a successful accountant and financial adviser in Kabul. He had several houses and property. We lost everything.
“I was too young to remember what Afghanistan was like under the Taliban, but my brother does, and he and my parents have told me.
“The Taliban took away everything. There was no music, no TV. Women weren’t allowed outside. It was like being in jail.”
He contoninued: “It was very hard, but it was the best thing that could have happened to me. It made me appreciate how blessed we are to live in Australia where if you are prepared to work hard you can make your own future.
“Where we came from it was all about class and connections. Here you can be whoever you want to be,” he said.
I was unstoppable.
Zed Nasheet
At 13, his family moved to Australia, which brought him the hope and hardship.
“When I started school I couldn’t speak any English. I was teased and bullied every day,” he said.
And yet, the now high-roller kept motivated to succeed and became a keenly entrepreneurial young teen.
“By the time I was 14 I was selling hotdogs outside nightclubs in Melbourne, three nights a weekend from 9pm to 6am, for $80. I was supposed to sell them for four dollars, but I learnt to negotiate.”
“That taught me about soft selling and up selling and building a rapport with your customer.”
It was an important lesson in salesmanship, which would help him to catch his big break.
While working at a phone shop, he worked his magic with a furious customer who was threatening to leave the provider.
After persuading her to stay and selling her the project she needed, Nasheet said: “She said, ‘I like your energy. I like your hunger. You should work for me. I’m offering you a job.”
He struggled at first – he only sold one house in his first year, but he qucikly learnt the ropes.
Soon, he said, “I was unstoppable”.
The young man became the top-selling agent at a leading agency four years running. In 2017, he sold a £21million house in one month – setting an industry benchmark.
He would later be asking to be put into the Guinness Book of Records after selling a house only 15 minutes.
“I’ve done that a lot of times since then,” he proudly admitted.
Now, Nasheet and his three brothers have their own agency with 40 members of staff and to date they have sold almost £740million worth of property.
He is showing no signs of stopping as he expands his agency’s reach onto the Gold Coast and continues to sell multi-million pound listings in just hours.
He recently purchased a luxurious office building in the centre of Melbourne which he calls the “Zed Tower” and hopes to keep adding floors onto.
As the real estate playboy’s goals soar even higher in the sky and his life in Pakistan gets even further away, his faith in his own success remains unshaking.
Posters behind his office desk read “In Zed we trust” and his sparkling white mansion with his luxury cars parked out front has a permanent sign that proudly reads: “Zold by Zed”.