We’ve spent the last 78 weeks talking about intentional property investment, but it doesn’t start out that way for lots of people: it’s very common to become an “accidental landlord”, and that often becomes a springboard into further property investing. So this week we set out a framework for what to do if you do […]

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With the vote on Scottish independence a week away, we thought this would be an excellent time to ask: should you buy property in Scotland? As well as speculating about the impact of the independence vote, we also covered: The differences in the property buying process in Scotland and England (Nick Stott’s excellent guest post gives […]

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This week we wanted, on the basis of a listener request, to share our favourite property websites. Covering news, research and general entertainment, these are the sites that appear in our browser history more than any others. Those sites are… The Property Voice by Richard Brown (Twitter link) DIY to Property investor by Kylie Ackers […]

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This week we’re talking about buying to sell – why would you flip a property, and how do you make sure you avoid the risks and secure a good profit? We got help in putting this episode together from Susannah Cole from The Good Property Company, who recently helped us to put together a course […]

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This week, no two ways about it: we had a bit of a moan. Yes, we each picked three items to go into our personal Property Room 101 – an idea we shamelessly “borrowed” from Pete Matthew, who did his own Room 101 on the Meaningful Money Podcast a while back. We thought we were […]

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The property market is moving fast, and you can’t rely on the newspapers to give you an accurate picture of what’s happening – or to give you the level of detail you need about what’s happening in your local market. So this week we shared 7 ways to stay on top of the property market… […]

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This week we’re celebrating the official launch of Yellow Lettings! So what better time, we thought, to do a whole episode about getting the best from your letting agent. We’ve said before that a good agent can make your property investing life a doddle, and a bad one can land you in all manner of […]

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This week we risked offending pretty much everyone by running through a list of places in the UK where we wouldn’t invest. Our intention wasn’t to slag anywhere off, but to illustrate what does make a good investment by calling attention to situations where those factors are missing. So, strap yourself in while we share […]

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This week we laid ourselves open to looking very daft indeed by making some long-term property predictions based on the 18-year property cycle that we introduced in Episode 69. The beauty of the cycle is that while no two cycles are ever quite the same, it’s a great framework for guiding your own thinking and […]

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Property tech and systems: could there be two topics we love more? On this week’s episode we discussed some must-use systems in your property business, including: Systemising your tenant find process if you self-manage Maintaining a digital file for each property using Evernote (discussed in detail in our paperless property system course) Using Trello to […]

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This might just be one of the all-time “must listen” episodes of The Property Podcast. Why? Because we dived into a model which explains almost everything we’ve been talking about for the last 16 months – and which you can use to drive your own long-term investing decisions. That model is the 18 year property […]

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Some landlords rent exclusively to tenants who are receiving housing benefit – others would never dream of going anywhere near that market. So who’s got it right? We received a voicemail from a listener this week about this very subject, so we decided to dive deep into the issue in this episode. We looked into: […]

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The Property Hub is six months old! To mark its half-birthday – and to celebrate having brought 1,000 members into the fold so far – we thought we’d share some things that the experience has taught us so far. The idea isn’t to bang on about why The Property Hub is great for half an […]

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We’ve never done a lease option, but they get talked about a lot and some people have had big success with them – so we thought we should dedicate an episode to explaining the basics. As the name implies, it involves taking an option to buy a property at a set price in the future, […]

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Back to school this week, as we talked about financial lessons we’d been taught in the classroom. We were inspired by this Daily Telegraph article by Martin Lewis, the Money Saving Expert, and talked about some of his ideas while adding our own. The lessons were: Your time has a value (Episode 63) Don’t borrow […]

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Mortgages are probably the area that get asked about the most in The Property Hub – and understandably so, because it’s such an important part of property investment. We’re famously bullish about leverage, and there’s a lot to take into account when making decisions about the lending you plan to use to expand your portfolio. […]

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This week we were examining a simple question that has big implications: what is your time worth? As investors we spend a lot of time obsessing about how much money we can afford to put into a deal, but we neglect the only truly limited commodity we have – time. Really, we should be factoring […]

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We love books, we love property…so can you even imagine how much we love property books? We had a hard time narrowing it down to seven recommendations for this week’s episode – but narrow we did, and here’s what we ended up with: Legally Avoid Property Taxes by Iain Wallis Millionaire Fastlane by M J […]

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It seems that people who invest in houses often recoil in horror at the idea of buying a flat – and vice versa. This week we waded into the fray – inspired by a topic in The Property Hub – with some conciliatory noises by laying out out all the pros and cons of each. […]

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Apparently in London, talking about a property bubble is no longer enough…now, it’s a super-bubble! Media hype aside, in this episode we ran through some ideas for how to calm London’s runaway housing market. As the starting point for our discussion, we talked about the measures suggested in this Guardian article – from some that […]

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This week we were off on holiday – or rather, we were examining whether property lets are a good investment. We didn’t get into actually researching buying abroad (we covered that in Episode 34), because holiday lets can be in the UK too – and they can be in city centres as well as on […]

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You’ll have heard people say that property doubles in price every 10 years – but is it true? This week we dug into the data to get to a real answer, and explored what it means for us as investors. We covered: The different data sources, and the peculiarities of each How long it really […]

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At the end of this recording, we remarked how the “boring” episodes are often our favourites – including inflation, interest rates, and now pension reform. Pension reform might sound like a dull subject, but it could have a huge impact for property investors. So in this episode, we asked: will the shake-up announced by George […]

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We got full-on back into property this week after our business series, and we did it by tackling another bunch of listener questions! Some of the questions we took on were: Is there anything I should watch out for with guaranteed rent schemes? (from Ben Adam-Smith at the House Planning Help Podcast) My property has […]

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We’re all about being nice on this show, so we couldn’t resist finishing off our business series by interviewing Peter Shankman – the author of “Nice Companies Finish First”. Peter started in business by selling funny t-shirts in Times Square, indirectly leading him to founding Help A Reporter Out – which he later sold for […]

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