Let's change the narrative a little this week. Today, I will share with you no less than 10 different tax saving pointers. Whether it is SDLT, CGT, Income/Corporation Tax, Council Tax or VAT...there's a potential saving for you in here I am convinced. Tax is a specialist area and one that needs … [Read more...]
Soundbite: Summer Update & The TPV Apprentice!
I’m back…did you miss me? Well, technically I have not been away as far as the podcast is concerned, as I pre-recorded a number of those holiday short episodes over the past few weeks. Did you enjoy those? If so, drop me a line to say so and I could perhaps consider doing that again another time for … [Read more...]
Soundbite: Make Money While They Sleep – Profit From Room Rentals
Why would you rent out a room in your own home or investment property to a stranger? Robert Kiyosaki suggests that our own home is definitely not an asset, because it does not put money in our pocket each month or year…in fact, it usually only takes money out of our pocket! Therefore, if we can … [Read more...]
Soundbite: Scaling Your Property Business Part 1
A week or so ago, I had a couple of conversations with Jesse Fossey Taylor, who owns approaching 200 rental properties. We talked about several things in our first conversation, but the thing that struck me the most as being potentially the most useful to you was the topic of scaling our property … [Read more...]
Soundbite: ‘Money for the Rest of Us’ Inspired Tips for Controlling Our Financial Future
I’m back after a summer break! Today I shall share some financial rules, principles and tips that I now adopt…and to some extent wish I had adopted sooner in my own personal financial life! You get to learn from some of my mistakes, hopefully also my later, better judgement as time has passed too, … [Read more...]
Soundbite: Truth or myth – we make our money when we buy?
This is another of those myth-busting episodes for you. This time we will take a look at the widely held investment principle that states ‘we make our money when we buy’. Whilst, it might sound rather obvious and a clear statement of the truth, is there more to it than that? Let's see what gets my … [Read more...]
Soundbite: How Incentives are Driving My Investing Behaviour
The Property Voice Podcast - Soundbite: How Incentives are Driving My Investing Behaviour A former business colleague got in touch this week through Linked In and we had a catch-up chat. He asked me ‘so what do you think about all this landlord bashing and what are your thoughts about property … [Read more...]
Property Financing: Raising or Saving Money through Tax-efficient Business Structures | S3E15
Today we are taking the idea of financing to another and less obvious level. I am joined by Tony Gimple, who shares a few examples of how we can either raise or save money just by the way we structure our affairs. He talks about knowing where the bodies are buried, a perpetual tax-efficient wash … [Read more...]
Soundbite Episode – Property investment…is it still worth it?
I wanted to share with you some of the insights that came out of my most recent article submission in the June issue of YPN magazine. I pose the question: Property investment…is it still worth it? In answering this question, we highlight what I call the Danger List, where those investors, which are … [Read more...]
YPN Reader Question – I am on the ‘Danger List’ do I Defend?
Dear Richard Brown, New Beginnings Article YPN I have just read with interest your above article in June's issue of YPN. I have a portfolio of 6 'vanilla' BTL mainly 2-bed flats. 5 of them are mortgage free and I took equity out of my main home and one of the BTL properties to … [Read more...]