As the child of parents who fled to Australia as refugees, Xenia Ioannou, is convinced she must have picked up on their sense of total loss. She arrived in Australia as a four year old with parents whose combined wealth was $200 and whose total possessions were enclosed in a suitcase but whose responsibilities extended to the two children they had bought with them. As well as starting over in a new land, what mum and dad did was inculcate in their children that the way to secure their future was through property ownership. It was a lesson the young Xenia learned well for despite acquiring multiple university degrees Xenia started on the path of property investing when she was just 19.“My parents instilled in me that wealth comes from property. My father used to say university will give you an education but real estate gives you wealth.”