In my experience, from having spoken to, and from having coached, numerous would-be investors, in most instances the limiting belief behind both of these behaviours is “fear” – usually the fear of making a mistake. This in turn feeds the fear of “losing everything”. This might sound very bleak but, again in my experience, without…
I’ll give just a word of explanation about the question “Am I paying too much for the property?” This isn’t necessarily implying that you check that you are not paying more than the open market value. It is suggesting that you check against whatever criteria you have set yourself to recognise a good buy. So,…
Thinking of the three principle property investing strategies, we could ask a series of questions like these: If our strategy is to buy and hold property for income: Am I paying too much for the property? Will I be able to let it once I’ve bought it? Will I be able to obtain the rent…
When you say the term “due diligence” to most investors they will naturally think about the basic checks anyone undertakes before buying a property. In fact, most investors will probably think of due diligence as being something they do after they have agreed terms to buy a property – having a valuation and survey, appointing…
According to some we’ve just entered into the buy to let boom age and things are just about to take off. For the first time in a long time all the major house-price indices are showing positive growth month on month. First time buyers are returning to the market, transaction levels are up, mortgage lending…
Hand in hand with buying BMV, the investing community has embraced ‘going back to basics’ and concentrating on ‘the fundamentals’. In particular, most, if not all, investors are intensely interested in cash-flow. As a minimum investors want to buy property which at least breaks even, although many will not be satisfied unless they find a…
Price is only one of the terms you should be interested in when you are buying investment property and if you can agree one or a combination of several of the following, in some circumstances, it might even make paying more than the asking price more than worthwhile. Other terms to negotiate when buying investment…
Oscar Wilde once famously said’ a cynic is a man who knows the price of everything but the value of nothing’. Clearly in property it’s important to distinguish between the two. It’s sometimes said about property that the value is the price some one will be prepared to pay. That might be a little simplistic…