I am sometimes contacted by people who live in an area which is far too expensive for them to buy a residential home in. And so they are renting, and trying to save, but prices are so high they know they’ll almost certainly never be able to buy a home there.   But they have…

One of the core principles of property investing is that, when you can, it’s often better (long term more profitable) to buy a property needing work(repairs and/or improvement). Why? Because it means you can add value, often more value than you spend on the works themselves. But here is the dilemma. Although theoretically that model…