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…
Hi, I’m Peter Jones. Property investor, author and ex charted surveyor, and I’m here at Nottingham Racecourse because I am going to be going to the SDL auction, property auction. They’re my local auctioneers. I love to pop in from time to time and see what’s happening in the auctions because you can learn so…
Hi, Peter Jones, chartered surveyor, author and property investor. And one of the big dilemmas and questions which I hear many property investors posing, particularly when they first come into property is ‘should I buy my properties using interest only mortgages or should I use capital repayment mortgages?’. And the received wisdom is that for…
I want to share with a common problem that I’ve come across when I’ve been talking to investors, and this particularly applies to new investors, but it’s not always new investors, sometimes this applies to more experienced investors as well, and that is the fear of raising private finance, what we could call JV finance.…
Hi, Peter Jones, chartered surveyor, author, and property investor. And I’ve been asked ‘what does it mean when you hear the banks talking about a portfolio landlord, and why does it matter?’ Well, this relates specifically to buy to let because relatively recently, within the last couple of years, the banks have been…
Hi I’m Peter Jones, chartered surveyor, author and property investor. I often get asked ‘Peter, why don’t you buy properties, or why don’t you want to buy properties, which already have tenants in place?’. As a general rule of thumb, I don’t usually buy properties which have tenants in place. I say usually because there…
I’ve had a question in from James. James isn’t his real name but I’m going to protect his identity in case he doesn’t want me to share his personal details. James is on short term contracts, he is an IT consultant and although he gets regular work the contracts are always of a relatively short…
Hi I’m Peter Jones, chartered surveyor, author and property investor. I was asked recently ‘Peter, how do I make sure that I get the best return on my property?’ and on the face of it that’s a very simple question with a very simple answer. Let’s just dig a little bit deeper into it, because…
I have had a question in from Michael. I have changed his name by the way, it is not his real name, because he might not want me to give away his personal details. Michael is a self-employed electrician from London and he earns roughly £20,000 a year, and he wants to get into buy…
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…