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.
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.
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.
No 28 Many Managing Agents Don’t Understand Building Defects and Give Crazy Advice
Over the years I’ve appointed many managing agents across my various buy to let portfolios, and one thing I’ve noticed is that some understand building construction and building defects, but many don’t. And those that don’t often give what I consider to be crazy advice (when it comes to repairs and the cost…
3 Ways to Make More Money, More Quickly in Property Investing
If you want to make more money in property, more quickly, here’s three things you can do: Number One – buy a property for less than its true value, in other words at Below Market Value (BMV) or at a bargain price. BMV is highly subjective. But at any given time, in your investment…
Am I Still Buying Properties?
Hi, I’m Peter Jones, chartered surveyor, author and property investor. A question which I sometimes get asked and I’ve got to be honest I get a little bit baffled when people ask me this question is “Peter are you still buying properties?” For a moment my head spins because I think to myself well why…
4 Models of Buy to Let Investing And Which Is Best
In this short video, I want to look at four different models of buy to let investing and I’m going to tell you which model I think is the best model because it’s a model which I use. Why four? Because just to start off with we often think about buy to let as being…
The HIDDEN Costs of Buying at Auction
In a previous video we were talking about property auctions and I was highlighting the fact that it’s entirely possible to spend a lot of money getting yourself ready to bid at the auction and not actually even getting the chance to bid. But perhaps what a lot of beginners don’t realise is that there’s…
No comps on Rightmove? Then how do we value our buy to let?
When we want to assess the value of a potential buy to let investment property, probably the first place we’re going to look for comparable evidence is Rightmove, or Zoopla, or another similar website where we can pick up evidence from past sale prices of similar, or even identical, properties. But what do we do…