Are You Building a Property Business — or Just a Complicated Job?
A practical look at how investors can drift from building freedom into building a complicated, stressful job, and why clarity often beats complexity.
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Why Waiting for the Perfect Deal Keeps Property Investors Stuck
A practical look at why so many would-be investors get stuck waiting for the perfect deal, and why good enough often beats perfect in property.
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Multiple Income Streams Don’t Always Mean More Properties
A practical look at how one property deal can sometimes produce more than one income stream, without forcing investors to keep buying more and more properties.
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How Market Conditions Should Change the Way You Find Deals
A practical look at how changing market conditions should affect the way investors source deals, assess opportunities and adapt their tactics.
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Why a Deal That Works on Paper Can Still Be a Bad Investment
property due diligence, bad investment, gross yield, cash flow, property risk, buy to let mistakes, tenant demand, exit strategy
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Cash Flow, Equity or Lump Sum Profit — Which One Are You Actually Buying For?
A practical look at cash flow, equity growth and lump sum profit, and why investors need to be clear what job they want a property to do before they buy it.
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Interest Only vs Repayment — Does It Really Matter?
A practical look at interest only versus repayment mortgages for buy to let investors, and why the right answer depends more on your goals than on dogma.
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Why Property Investors Should Think Beyond Property
Most millionaires don’t just rely on one source of income. In fact, I’ve heard that the average millionaire has at least three income streams, with many having five to seven. Why? Because they understand a simple truth—if you depend entirely on one source of income and it stops, you’re in trouble. But many investors and…
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UK Property Hotspots: The 10 Areas Where House Prices Soared in 2024, but Are They the Best Places to Buy (Invest) in 2025?
It’s hot spot season! Just Googling around property and I can see that on a journalist’s ‘to do list’ in January is to produce the Property Hot Spot article. Nothing wrong with that, by the way, we all need to make a living, and reviewing the property market in January makes perfect sense as we…
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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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