A comment which I sometimes see made on social media, like on the Facebook, on different sorts of property groups on Facebook, is that buy to let is an outdated model. In fact sometimes people will come to my YouTube channel and do little troll type posts saying ‘Buy to let is dead, property investing…
Sometimes you just happen to be in the right place at the right time. This happened to me a while back when I sent my son in law around to inspect a potential buy to let property for me. It raises the question, how much is a bucket of dirty rainwater actually worth? Every cloud…
In this video I want to talk about the upside, the benefits, the things that are great about owning property and being a buy to let investor. Number one on my list, and probably very top of my list, is the ability to be able to create equity in a property. If you like, that’s…
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…
I’ve been talking to a number of people who want to get into property investing recently and a question which quite often arises is ‘What sort of property should I be buying if I want to get into buy to lets’. Sometimes the question is ‘Peter, why do you advise buying cheaper properties rather than…
When a lot of would-be investors start in buy to let, they often have dreams of buying really nice houses, in really nice areas. But are those the best properties to buy as an investment? Often the answer is no. By and large the best properties for investing are cheaper properties in cheaper areas. This…
So, I was pretty excited to jump on the train, and headed off with the usual agenda.
We’d talk about the “Three Rs”; rents, repairs, and refurbs..
We’d look at a couple of the buy to let properties, typically where tenants have just left, and agree
A question I’m often asked is, “Should I tell the estate agent I’m a cash buyer?” The premise behind this question is, no doubt, estate agents think a cash buyer will transact a deal quickly and with less hassle as, in their minds (experience) mortgages take longer (too long) to arrange. So, a cash buyer…
In this short mini series we’re looking at the things I’d think about when deciding whether to buy a house or a flat as my latest buy to let. If you’ve watched the other videos you’ll know that I don’t have strong views like “Only houses and never flats”. But I respect and understand some…
In the first video of this mini series about whether houses or flats make a better investment, I said that I don’t operate on the basis that there is a clear cut rule saying houses are fine but never buy a flat for your buy to let. I think having such a binary approach is…