Hi, Peter Jones, ex-chartered surveyor, author and property investor. In this video I want to think about whether buying a property below market value makes it a great deal and whether it makes it a great deal every time. And the short answer to that is no, I do not think it does. Now, in…
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Hi, Peter Jones, author, property investor, ex-chartered surveyor. In this short video I want to talk about 4 reasons why I always refurbish or renovate my buy to let investment properties. Now, the first 3 reasons you might think ‘yeah, ok, that makes a lot of sense’ but it is probably the 4th reason that’s…
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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…
DetailsHi, I’m Peter Jones, author, property investor, ex charted surveyor. You’ll see that I’m outside an estate agents, and very typically this estate agent also does lettings, and interestingly there’s actually more properties to rent in the window than there are properties for sale. And I always suggest that if you’re starting out…
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Hi, Peter Jones, author, property investor, ex charted surveyor. And I was with a mentoring client on Saturday and one of the questions which she specifically asked me was “How do you pitch an offer? Is it just a matter of making an offer 10% below asking price? Is there a point at which it…
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Hi, Peter Jones, author, property investor, ex-chartered surveyor. And a question which I am often asked is “What’s going to happen to property prices?” Well, I wish I knew, I wish I had a crystal ball. But there are certain things that we can look at within the economy which are going to…
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Hi, Peter Jones, author, property investor, ex-chartered surveyor. I’m outside one of my buy to let properties here and a question I am often asked is “What makes a good buy to let yield?” But, it’s one of those things where I don’t think there’s any hard and fast rules. The answer…
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Hi, I’m Peter Jones. Property investor, author and ex charted surveyor, and I’m here at Nottingham Racecourse because I am going to be going to the SDL auction, property auction. They’re my local auctioneers. I love to pop in from time to time and see what’s happening in the auctions because you can learn so…
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Hi, Peter Jones, chartered surveyor, author and property investor. And one of the big dilemmas and questions which I hear many property investors posing, particularly when they first come into property is ‘should I buy my properties using interest only mortgages or should I use capital repayment mortgages?’. And the received wisdom is that for…
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I want to share with a common problem that I’ve come across when I’ve been talking to investors, and this particularly applies to new investors, but it’s not always new investors, sometimes this applies to more experienced investors as well, and that is the fear of raising private finance, what we could call JV finance.…
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