3 Ways to Make More Money, More Quickly in Property Investing

If you want to make more money in property, more quickly, here’s three things you can do:   Number One – buy a property for less than its true value, in other words at Below Market Value (BMV) or at a bargain price. BMV is highly subjective. But at any given time, in your investment…

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Am I Still Buying Properties?

Hi, I’m Peter Jones, chartered surveyor, author and property investor. A question which I sometimes get asked and I’ve got to be honest I get a little bit baffled when people ask me this question is “Peter are you still buying properties?”   For a moment my head spins because I think to myself well why…

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4 Models of Buy to Let Investing And Which Is Best

In this short video, I want to look at four different models of buy to let investing and I’m going to tell you which model I think is the best model because it’s a model which I use.  Why four? Because just to start off with we often think about buy to let as being…

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The HIDDEN Costs of Buying at Auction

In a previous video we were talking about property auctions and I was highlighting the fact that it’s entirely possible to spend a lot of money getting yourself ready to bid at the auction and not actually even getting the chance to bid.  But perhaps what a lot of beginners don’t realise is that there’s…

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No comps on Rightmove? Then how do we value our buy to let?

When we want to assess the value of a potential buy to let investment property, probably the first place we’re going to look for comparable evidence is Rightmove, or Zoopla, or another similar website where we can pick up evidence from past sale prices of similar, or even identical, properties. But what do we do…

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What Type of Property Makes The Best Buy to Let

When a lot of would-be investors start in buy to let, they often have dreams of buying really nice houses, in really nice areas. But are those the best properties to buy as an investment? Often the answer is no. By and large the best properties for investing are cheaper properties in cheaper areas. This…

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Flipping Property To Owner Occupiers

Estate Agents (Part 9)   Over the past few weeks we’ve been thinking about property strategies and lately, we’ve been looking at flips. Today, we are going to look at the last sub-strategy in this category which is flips to owner occupiers.     If we’re going to flip to owner occupiers, then it’s likely…

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Flipping Property To Other Investors

Estate Agents (Part 8)   Last week we began to think about flips and crucially how to find our flip properties so that we can find deals to sell on for a profit. Now, where you are going to find these properties is going to be largely determined by the type of flip that you’re…

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Finding Properties to Flip

Estate Agents (Part 7)   Having explored buy to lets and HMOs, this week we’re going to look at how to find properties to flip. In other words, properties that we can buy and then sell on. So, how do we do this? Do we literally just walk straight into an estate agent’s office and…

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