Why Borrowing Other People’s Money Makes Buy to Let Property Even More Exciting

This week we look at borrowing, with other people’s money! Your ability to invest in Property using your time and effort and someone else’s cash! Property investing, including buy to let, works better when you use someone else’s money – it greatly increases the returns on your own money invested. Here’s to successful property investing!…

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Why You Shouldn’t View Properties and Why You Should Inspect Them Instead

Imagine this, you’re out viewing properties, you’re going to view this property, maybe you’re thinking it’ll make a nice flip or perhaps it’s even going to be serviced accommodation or holiday let, I don’t know, it doesn’t really matter. When we’re viewing properties this is usually what happens. We’ll go to the property, we’ll go…

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40 Learnings in 40 Years: Value is NOT What Someone Will Pay For it!

  You’ll often hear it said in property that “The value is what someone will pay for it” but technically, according to the RICS (Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors) that’s not true.   And to (perhaps) make things even more confusing, value is an opinion, and more than one opinion can be right. Sometimes multiple…

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Are Buy to Let Landlords Selling Up in Big Numbers?

  Buy to let landlords sold 35,000 more properties than they bought in 2022, with the rental sector losing an average of 66 buy to let properties a day last year, according to analysis by agents Hamptons.   Hamptons also says 140,000 people stopped being landlords in 2022, and 96,000 are expected to follow suit…

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Property Goals on Their Own Aren’t Enough

Setting goals might be boring but we need to do it. Goal setting is one of the key things for success in any activity, property investing included.   When I set goals, I tend to achieve them. When I don’t set goals, I tend to just bumble along.   So what should I do? I…

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Are you a Portfolio Landlord and why does it matter?

  Are you a Portfolio Landlord? What does that even mean? How do Buy to Let Lenders define a Portfolio Landlord? And what does it mean when you are one? What are the implications? In this video my very good mortgage broker takes us through some of the things we need to be aware of…

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