A recent report issued by one of Britain’s biggest mortgage lenders, Santander, found that 70% of young people now believe the dream of home ownership is over for their generation. While this figure is particularly stark, it’s merely the latest in a series of findings that reflect the current state […]
From the outside, commercial conversions sound like “big deals” and a lot of hard work, so why are they becoming so popular? Because it’s all about scalability. Undertaking “bigger” deals such as these doesn’t have to mean harder work, more hassle or more stress than a smaller deal because the […]
At the start of the week (here) we took a look at flipping to other investors so now it’s time to consider how this differs from flipping to owner occupiers. Flipping to owner occupiers means it’s likely you’ll be sourcing a different type of property. The reason for this is […]
If “flips” form part of your strategy, where you find your properties will very much depend on the type of flip that you are going to carry out. For example, if you are going to flip to an investor, then this type of property will probably be different to a […]
If you want to buy properties to flip, (in other words to buy and then sell on), how would you go about finding these types of properties? Over the past few weeks we’ve been looking at buy to lets and HMOs, and came to the conclusion that the best place […]
Many investors are solidly committed to the principle of diversification and this can result in them opting to sell perfectly healthy investments purely to keep their portfolio appropriately balanced. Some investors also like to try out different investment classes and niches, just to keep their life interesting and hence may […]
This is the last in the series of the different property strategies that we can use in today’s market, and so this time we are going to think about how we can ‘up our game’ and make our investing far more sophisticated with “Developments”. Possibly the most exciting strategy out […]
10 Things I’ve Learnt (Part 10) Take Action NOW Over the past 9 weeks I’ve revealed nine things which I’ve discovered over the past 20 years of investing in property for myself, and so now it’s time to complete the series. Number ten on the list is this: Stop procrastinating […]
10 Things I’ve Learnt (Part 3) A lack of money should not hold you back from getting started in property Over the past few weeks I’ve been thinking about 10 things that I’ve learned over the last two decades of investing in property for myself, and the third on the […]
Over the last couple of weeks we’ve been looking at whether house prices still double every ten years in the UK. Now it’s time to think about some of the drivers that actually affect property prices – and which of these drivers push values up to lead to this doubling. […]
