The Power of Buying Below Market Value By Peter Jones thepropertyteacher.co.uk thepropertyteacher@gmail.com In the real world very few property investors go down to their local estate agents, choose a property, and then offer to pay full price for it. Any well advised and self-respecting property investor will want to negotiate and then buy at what…
The Power of Renovation By Peter Jones thepropertyteacher.co.uk thepropertyteacher@gmail.com The next way to super charge already impressive returns is to buy a property ripe for improvement and renovate it. The key, of course, is to make sure that the works increase the value of the property by more than the cost of the works themselves.…
The Power of Gearing By Peter Jones thepropertyteacher.co.uk thepropertyteacher@gmail.com In a sense these figures show the raw returns from capital growth, but this is very much an artificial situation used purely for illustration purposes. In reality there would be a few more things going on. For a start, most investors would probably buy using finance…
The Power of Capital growth By Peter Jones thepropertyteacher.co.uk thepropertyteacher@gmail.com As it seems that the property market is now in recovery, and property values are increasing, how do we make the most of a rising market? In a sense there are a number of possible answers to this question, ranging from what we may describe…
Here’s a short video about my latest property investment project. At the moment I’m deciding between selling it on, which I think I could do at a decent profit, or whether to renovate it and keep it as a buy to let investment property.
My wife and I each have a stupid amount of money tied up in personal pension plans which we paid into many years ago when we were both employed. It’s sat there doing nothing and if it were used to buy an annuity, we’d get nothing helpful by way of income. Have the recent budget…
Do you want a few buy to let properties to supplement your pension? Or perhaps you want a few buy to let properties to supplement your Income? Or maybe you want to be a lot more aggressive and want to assemble a large portfolio to replace your job altogether? Whatever your property goals and aspirations…
I’m sure that where I live we are still waiting for The Ripple Effect to arrive, but rumours of it being on its way seem to have been enough to encourage estate agents to top-load the prices of properties coming onto the market. If you’re not sure what I mean by ‘The Ripple Effect’, in…
I was talking to a property investor friend of mine the other day who was bemoaning the fact that rapidly increasing property prices in his area had made his buying strategy redundant, and left him in a dilemma as to whether he should even be buying and adding to his buy to let portfolio. Until…
Some times you just have to take action there and then! I went to look at a potential buy to let investment property the other day which was on a at a great price, didn’t need a great deal doing to it, but looked sufficiently bad for the vendors to quote a low price, and…