Finding Commercial Conversion Deals

Estate Agents (Part 12)   It’s time to think about commercial conversions and how to find deals that will fit this strategy – but first, I want to think about why we would want to do commercial conversions in the first place. After all, from the outside, these sound like big deals and a lot…

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Finding Serviced Accommodation Deals

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…

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Supercharge returns with serviced accommodation

Property Strategies (Part 6)   In this series of blog posts we’ve thinking about the main strategies that we can use in property – and whilst this isn’t something that I pursue personally, this is worth thinking about as it can generate exceptionally good returns. The strategy in question is “Serviced Accommodation”.   Serviced accommodation…

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Flipping property for profit

Property Strategies (Part 3) This week we’re going to think about flipping. At its very core, flipping is all about buying a property as cheap as possible to then sell on and make a profit. Now, one would assume that in order to sell it on at a profit, you might have to do something…

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True “BMV” versus “below asking price”

Many assume that a property’s asking price equates to its value. It doesn’t, or at least, it might or might not, and it’s important not to assume that the asking price reflects the true market value. In this video I take a look at the major flaws with BMV and consider why valuation is an art, not…

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The foundations of property profits

Some say there’s one thing every successful buy to let property investor should do – and that’s buy an investment property where one can add value. There are certainly many advantages to doing this. In these videos, we’ll look at why buying a property and adding value by a refurb makes financial sense for any property…

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