The Property Voice Podcast - Series 2: Property Cycles - The Investment Property Lifecycle - Undertaking Works I am joined on the show today by my good friend Damien Fogg from buytoletstrategy.com. Damien is an experienced investor himself, as well as being a chartered building surveyor and so … [Read more...]
Musings: ‘Give and get’ Listener Tips – Refurbs & Valuations
The Property Voice Podcast - Musings: ‘Give and get’ Listener Tips - Refurbs & Valuations Today's show is prompted by two listener contributions. Pete asks: how do you value a property before and after works and how do you estimate and price up the works as well? Helen shares some of her top … [Read more...]
Musings: 8 Megatrends that Property Investors should be aware of
The Property Voice Podcast - Musings: 8 Megatrends that Property Investors should be aware of Megatrends are big changes that will affect us over the next 10-50 years. However, many of these megatrends will start to have an impact on our property investment decisions today. Check out this week’s … [Read more...]
Musings: Scammers, bloodsuckers & leeches…and how to avoid them!
The Property Voice Podcast - Musings: Scammers, bloodsuckers & leeches…and how to avoid them! The Property Voice Musings are one-off episodes designed for an opportunity for us to share what is on our mind at the moment. Today we will be talking the darker side of property investing…and … [Read more...]
Desktop Property Research to ‘Road Test’ Rental Investment Areas
OK, so we know we want to buy a property investment and we have our funds lined up ready to go...so the next question is: where should we invest? We could start by undertaking some simple desktop property research. One way to do this is to start at a more macro-level with our property research … [Read more...]
Property Research and Due Diligence is a Whizz with Property Wizza
I was updating the Research Section Section 3 of The Property Voice - Investor Toolkit the other day. I counted something like 33 web links in the section and of course I wanted to a) check the links were still working and b) take a quick look at them to see if anything had changed. I found that one … [Read more...]
Silly question from a novice property investor…Really?
Today's feature is inspired by a reader's question on the Property Hub Forum, which goes as follows [edited]: ."..Although I haven't fully formed goal strategy yet, however, I do know I want to be a hands off landlord. I’d also prefer to buy new(ish) properties and am looking to rent unfurnished to … [Read more...]
Property Research…Online
Some useful pointers here about basic desk research on a property location to help with area-based investment checks In addition to the items listed, we could also look at recent comparable sales (e.g. via Rightmove or Zoopla) and rental figures (again Rightmove could help but even better is to … [Read more...]
Property shows, courses and seminars – are they worth it?
This is a sensitive subject. On the one hand, education is absolutely vital to be successful in property inesvting. Not only in the tangible aspects of investing such as the responsibilities of being a landlord or the economics of yields, return on investment and the like but also some of the … [Read more...]