Estate Agents (Part 10) Over the last few months we’ve been thinking about where to find our property deals. We’ve covered buy to lets, flip properties and HMOs. As such, we’re now on to serviced accommodation. At its very core essence, serviced accommodation is not dissimilar to buy to lets. The big…
Property Strategies (Part 2) Last week we took a look at basic buy to let investing and this week we’re going to look at more sophisticated ways of doing this strategy. First of all, though, let’s just recap. At the most basic level of investing, we could buy a property, put a tenant…
Property Strategies (Part 1) Given that many of you reading this blog post are new to investing, over the next few weeks I’m going to be looking at the different types of property strategies and the pros and cons of each. By the way, this doesn’t mean that if you’re an experienced investor…
10 Things I’ve Learnt (Part 10) This is the final instalment of 10 things that I’ve learned over the last 20 years of investing in property for myself, and the last on the list is this: You have to get started now. Although it sounds rather ironic, when I started out on my own…
10 Things I’ve Learnt (Part 8) This week we’re onto number 8 of ten things that I’ve learnt over the last 20 years of investing in property for myself, and number 8 is this: “Don’t try and do it all on your own”. It appears that beginner investors and entrepreneurs get struck down…