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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
From studying social media and from talking to other investors of differing levels of experience, I think that we, the property investing community, think of property investing as being a passive activity. Of course this is true once our property investing is established. And being passive in property is something many of us aspire to,…
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…
Estate Agents (Part 9) Over the past few weeks we’ve been thinking about property strategies and lately, we’ve been looking at flips. Today, we are going to look at the last sub-strategy in this category which is flips to owner occupiers. If we’re going to flip to owner occupiers, then it’s likely…
Estate Agents (Part 8) Last week we began to think about flips and crucially how to find our flip properties so that we can find deals to sell on for a profit. Now, where you are going to find these properties is going to be largely determined by the type of flip that you’re…