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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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…
You can achieve more than you think
TO SIGN UP TO MY NEWSLETTER, PLEASE CLICK HERE 10 Things I’ve Learnt (Part 6) We’ve spent the last five weeks discussing what I’ve learnt over the last 20 years, and number six on my list is that you can achieve more than you think you can just so long as you keep on…
It Takes As Long As it Takes!
TO SIGN UP TO MY NEWSLETTER, PLEASE CLICK HERE 10 Things I’ve Learnt (Part 5) Over the past few weeks we’ve been looking at some of the things which I’ve discovered over the last 20 years of investing in property, and one of the things which I’ve learnt – and learnt the hard…
You don’t have to run out of money
TO SIGN UP TO MY NEWSLETTER, PLEASE CLICK HERE 10 Things I’ve Learnt (Part 4) The next thing on my list of 10 things that I’ve learnt over the last 20 years is that: “You Don’t Have To Run Out Of Money.” Or to put it another way, you don’t have to stop…
There’s Rarely Just One Way of Doing Things
TO SIGN UP TO MY NEWSLETTER, PLEASE CLICK HERE. 10 Things I’ve Learnt (Part 1) This is the first in a new series of blog posts in which I’m going to share with you ten things that I’ve learned over the past twenty years of investing for myself. The very first…
My Exit Is Death and I Want To Pay Down My Mortgages
Property and UK Tax Part 7 This week we’re going to think about “death” as our exit strategy as well as the implications of this from a tax perspective. I want to combine two statements which I often hear people say. The first is “death is my exit” and the second is “I want to…
What Happens If I Use A Trust Fund For My Property Investments?
Property and UK Tax Part 6 Occasionally I meet property investors who are very earnest and who tell me that their main priority is to leave a legacy for their children. What they would really like to do is to set up their businesses in such a way that they could have what would…
Should you use different companies for different property activities?
Property and UK Tax (Part 4) This week, it’s time to think about how to structure our companies and also about SIC codes (or Standard Industrial Classification) for our property businesses. Firstly, let’s think about how to structure our business if we are to undertake various property activities. You might wonder if we could…