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…
An ongoing debate you’ll often see on social media is whether one should opt only for houses when buying a buy to let, or whether flats are ok as well. In my experience, those who say “houses only” are usually very evangelical and dogmatic about it. But I’m no so sure that they should be.…
A question I am sometimes asked is, ‘Is there more than one way to do buy to let?’. It all depends on how you define buy to let. If you define buy to let as buying a property and putting a tenant in then that could cover HMOs (Houses of Multiple Occupation), it could include…
Why do so many investors start with buy to let? I suppose buy to let is the foundational entry point for property investing. Most people understand the concept behind buying a flat or a house and then renting it out to a tenant. One of the great things about buy to let is that there…