Commercial Property Investor Podcast

Jerry shares his own SSAS pension story so far. In this first update he talks through some of the reasons for doing so and the stages  of the process he has taken so far. Utilising your own trading business with a SSAS pension can allow you to fund some of your commercial property investing strategies.  Join the Commercial Property Investor Facebook Group: https://bit.ly/CP-Group Instagram: https:...

Jerry speaks to Laurie Duncan & Alex Robertson of Rewd group on their meteoric property journey. What does it take to build a portfolio of 200 residential properties in just a few short years? Listen in to learn what makes the difference from building a portfolio up steadily with 1 or 2 residential at a time to building at scale.  Development and commercial to residential deals can be complica...

7 tips on successfully opening a multilet property. This little list is an essential part of pre and post opening of a new site.   There are lots of things to get ready before you unleash a new or refurbished space to your customers. We have to get utilities right, compliance needs to be covered off and the physical space needs to be ready, but we often forget some of the proactive things we need...

Following on from "The 3 Phases of selling & filling workspace', Jerry delves deeper into occupancy rates and why 100% occupancy of your multilet space may just not be as great as it seems... The Optimum for your space could be on the other side of 100%. Podcast Sponsors: Anderson Smith Insurance www.anderson-smith.co.uk Join the Commercial Property Investor Facebook Group: https://www.faceboo...

Jerry breaks down his 3 phase, step-by-step method of selling and filling workspace. It is important to have a model and process to fill and optimise your multilet buildings. Jerry has created this simplified model from years of observations and experimenting in the multilet commercial space. Use this to model to recognise where your buildings or opportunities are currently situated and what the l...

Mark Winship started with HMO's, then moved into SA, E-Hotels and now onto CMO, the Commercial HMO. We are all in the space business and the more strategies we add to our skill set the better we become at assessing buildings for the best strategy rather than just one cookie cutter approach.  Mark describes why portfolio diversity is important and that it takes time, planning and action to create t...

Jerry catches up, once again, with Tony Freeth to discuss the  specific considerations of internet access for smaller multilet properties and how Tech and supplier provision has evolved over the past year. Tony has been working in the workspace industry for a long time. He has a particularly good knack of translating high level tech talk in a way that makes it accessible & understandable to al...

Choices, Choices, it can be difficult to decide which strategy is the best for you. Commercial property strategies are so like residential in many ways. A lot of the processes you might be used to in residential or family home investing are also applicable to commercial property investing. If you are learning about lots of new commercial property strategies and don't quite know which to do, then i...

Some Landlord investors can make the mistake of launching straight into offering Flexspace without thinking through the different skill sets required.  Being a Commercial property investor is one thing, but the process of purchasing the right property, designing the space, developing it out and then operating a Flexspace on a day to day basis is a tangled web of decision making that could make or...

Jerry shares his thoughts following a recent discussion on target markets & customer segmentation. Who or what should be your target market and should you be open to everyone? Flexspace and CMO developments need to have some kind of customer focus. But what is your target customer, is it a company type, a local demographic or a customer need? _______________________________________________ Pod...

Jerry and Lucy Watts explore the reporting that Instant can provide to those of us that want to assess demand in certain locations. Imagine having a report telling you all of the inquiries that have been in a specific geographical area over the last 2-3 years or the average desk rates that are being achieved by other operators? Over the years Instant has built up a huge amount of data and contacts...

Jerry speaks with John Williams, CMO of Instant Group on the latest merger with IWG. This discussion delves into the questions on the minds of many within the industry. What is the rational behind the merger? How much of our property data on things like occupancy and pricing will be shared with IWG? Will commercial leads be fairly distributed? John also gives his insight into current Flexspace mar...

Jerry speaks with Ross Smith and Roger Coulter of Anderson Smith Insurance discussing some of the important questions around Commercial Property Insurance including how to control your premiums, what is important to your broker and crucially, when should you insure your commercial property project. Insurance Brokers: Anderson Smith details: www.anderson-smith.co.uk ross@anderson-smith.co.uk Office...

The Annual Financial report for global flexible space provider IWG was released this morning and included details of a merger with online broker The Instant Group. Both brands might be better know as Regus and Instant Offices, at least for those of you who have been in the industry for a period of time. This merger could have big ramifications for where the broker leads go to and how much informat...

Jerry speaks with Dan Taylor of Taylor Capital on a long career of buying businesses, commercial property and a particulary interesting strategy Dan has coined as "Boxing a Brand" Find out more about Taylor Capital at https://taylorcapital.co.uk/ Join the Commercial Property Investor Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/commercialpropertyinvestor/ Jerry Alexander on LinkedIn: https://www.linke...

Jerry provides an update to episode 50 about Inflation with some important factors affecting contracts and your potential income. Plus he talks through some of the opportunities for negotiation that higher inflation may bring. Join the Commercial Property Investor Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/commercialpropertyinvestor/ Jerry Alexander on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jerryalex...

Jerry chats with property entrepreneur Linda Martin on flipping residential property and her experiences of getting that first Commercial property deal.  Linda shares how she managed to find the deal and how she has used her flair for design to differentiate her CMO offer to attract customers.  This episode is a must if you have been debating with yourself on whether you should get started in this...

A frequent question we are asked at CPI is "does it matter if I invest locally or further away?" This is a totally normal question particularly when you are starting out and there are lots of loose ends. There's a lot of choices to think about: what sector should I choose, what size of property, what's a good return, how much should I spend and of course where do I invest? The grass can always see...

Jerry talks with Neil McLeod about the Lyon’s Den development. Neil has successfully restored and modernised this historical listed property to provide a business hub with a mix of private spaces and co-working. Neil shares the story of this development and what his plans are for additional locations. Neil McLeod Linkedin:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/neil-mcleod-property-partners/ Instagram: @nei...

Jerry answers some of the questions he is often asked and poses some of his own. It is not easy getting started in any new area of investing, but asking the right questions can really speed up our learning.  If you are just getting started in Commercial Property Investing and have lots of your own questions holding you back then this episode is for you. What should we be asking ourselves when prog...

Jerry talks with Paul Murray about a number of developer experiences including raising private finance to scale up to the next level, commercial to HMO properties and a particularly interesting build to rent project. Paul doesn’t do things by half’s and shows that tenacity can out play the professionals even when they are all telling you to call it a day and walk away.   Instagram: @paul_murray_de...

Jerry shares his views on making an active commercial property business more passive and the difficulties of letting go as an active investor. Using active strategies can really speed up your business growth. But for those of you who want more passive investments those strategies don't need to remain active forever. You can make an active business become more passive.  Jerry talks through how scal...

In this very special 100th episode, Jerry brings in the new year with his tips on identifying and ultimately purchasing an existing CMO Commercial Property. This strategy could really get your Commercial Investing journey off to a flying start. Investors often look for fully vacant commercial properties to develop into CMO offerings but why go through the whole process when you can potentially sho...

Jerry talks with Graeme Shevas about different options for commercial finance including peer to peer lending options. They also go into detail about a recent CMO project refinance. Graeme has helped many property and business owners raise finance over recent years and he discusses the options available from tier 1, 2 and 3 lenders. A fascinating discussion on all things commercial finance. This wi...

Jerry answers a recently posed question: "Why do you bother with podcasting and networking? Do you really need to spend time at face to face networking events?" Networking is about business growth and not just sales, they should come as a by-product. Approached in the right way networking and podcasting will bring so much more than just sales, it will help your business really grow. Over 60% of th...