Honest Property Investment with Natasha Collins

I assume seeing as you are reading my emails you’re a property investor. Yes, OK, next question… do you have a Business Plan? Ooh harder question to answer right.... Do you know exactly what you need to do month on moneth to hit your goals? Do you know what property you need to buy next? Do you know how much money you’ll have in your bank on a monthly basis? When you should find investors? When yo...

I’m going to be honest and say, when I first started out as a property manager I had no idea what I was doing. When I first set up my business, I had no idea what I was doing. Every morning I’d get up, put 101 things on my to do list. Try complete them all and be everywhere and then end the day at midnight successfully having ticked off about a quarter of what I needed to do. Sound familiar? The o...

Come to my webinar on how to create a Property Investment Business plan on the 22nd February @ 6:30pm by REGISTERING HERE If I could put anything in Room 101 this week, it would be Property Managers who aren’t transparent. Honesty and clarity are values which make my world go round. Who’s got time for game playing… or for people who pretend they know something but actually don’t?! ( I see this far...

Leasehold Tribunal puts the fear of god in a lot of leaseholders… and then if it gets referred up a level to Lands Tribunal it seems scarier, especially because you end up in the Royal Courts of Justice trying to settle a dispute that can be really heated. If you’ve been a with me a while, you’ll know in 2020 I ended up in Leasehold Tribunal myself. It was a pain more than anything. I got a lot of...

I’m excited, this week the Members Club is open!! Woohoo… only until Midnight on Thursday 28th January. This year the Members Club has stepped up. You not only have access to masterclasses in a quick easy sequence that will build out a strategy and then make sure you purchase the perfect property in the right location. But you have access to a wealth of industry databases that surveying firms have...

Back on the 7th January the Ministry for Housing announced their radical leasehold reform proposals. Serious focus on Commonhold and the set up of the Commonhold Council Leases could be extended by 990 years rather than 90 and ground rent go to £0 An online calculator which will tell you what the cost of a lease extension will be This is on top of their current proposals for £0 ground rents on Hel...

Before I start, remember on Monday 25th January at 6:30pm I’m hosting a free Masterclass: The Traps You MUST Avoid in Property Investment in 2021 make sure you register! The top two things that hold a property investor up: Finding deals Raising finance I talk about finding deals a lot… I always start there because I know in my heart of hearts that I’d be able to find finance on any property I care...

Remember to register for my webinar on the 25th January - The Traps to Avoid in Property Investment This Year! Happy New Year! Did you manage to take some time off over the break? I did… two whole weeks mostly away from my computer. OK, I’m terrible at putting my feet up, but I loved getting creative with DIY and adding a design twist to our lake house. I’m excited to live here for a few months be...

Here's the link to the January webinar: https://ncrealestate.co.uk/january2021/ I want to thank you for being a part of the NC Real Estate community, it’s an absolute pleasure having you here and I hope you continue to enjoy being here long into 2021 and beyond. OK, so this week, the podcast is looking a little bit different as it’s definitely time to have a little bit of fun and lay down our prop...

The property market is getting tricky. There are so many blind spots in the industry wrapped up like Christmas Presents, that investors/buyers just simply don’t notice. And that is where it will cost you long term. It may look really nice that some new build apartment block developers have decided to hand out £0 ground rents and 999 year leases (how kind). But you read through the lease and realis...

There are currently 124 Debenhams units employing 12,000 members of staff across the UK. When the stores close down, that’s an awful lot of empty space clogging up the high street. ‘Clogging’ funny word to use, right? But, in all honesty that’s what will happen. There will be a period of time where the liquidation process happens and none of the units can be used. That will mean retail units being...

The Members Club is open this week https://ncrealestate.co.uk/membersclub/ !  Remember, once you've signed up to the Members Club, if you email me natasha@ncrealestate.co.uk between now and the 3rd December 2020 you get a complimentary 1:1 with me!    It’s the 1st December... rents due.  But was it paid?  I’m getting more and more questions about what to do when either you...

MAKE SURE YOU JOIN MONDAYS WEBINAR BY REGISTERING HERE: https://ncrealestate.co.uk/webinarnovember2020/ Anyone managing property MUST BE REGULATED. Including: housing associations, landlords, SAs, R2R, social housing providers, commercial investors, rogue traders, rule avoiders, head-in-the-sanders...I’m changing the industry. Incompetence is not an excuse,IT’s CRIMINAL I discuss it in this podcas...

BOOK ONTO THE WEBINAR HERE --> https://ncrealestate.co.uk/webinarnovember2020/  Let me be straight, because I can be nothing else, I’m pretty sure the real reason your strategy is off is because you’re listening to too many other people telling you what your strategy shouldn’t be and pretending like that’s a strategy. For example, If I were to ask you: ‘ What’s your property investment str...

Whilst I can’t solve political leaders throwing their toys out the pram, I can give you some encouragement for how to handle the property market. The Ugly: Don’t trust developers who phone you out of the blue looking for investment **COUGH** money to prop up their failing developments. Always do your due diligence The Bad (for movers) : Time is running out to buy a property and take advantage of t...

Leasehold. Sparks fear in many. This week I welcome Katie Kendrick onto the podcast. Katie is the force behind the National Leasehold Campaign, she sits on the Leasehold Knowledge Partnership as a Board Trustee and is also a practising pediatric Nurse. We discuss the highs and lows of leasehold and what she’s seeing out in the market right now! Side note… you will know I do invest in leasehold. Yo...

We don’t normally do this, but as we had such fun last night we have decided to replay the webinar as today’s podcast ... The Decision Making Clinic Replay is RIGHT HERE The key take away I wanted to share with you is that every single person's property portfolio is different and we all have different decisions to make at different times… but, decision making follows a set of rules we create for o...

The NC Podcast is back! I’ve been talking about Decision Making this month. If you haven’t already seen it then you are definitely invited to my FREE, live decision making clinic: https://ncrealestate.co.uk/free-sessions/ In my 2 week podcasting break the leasehold tribunal concluded. I tell you what happened. I also cover market trends I’m starting to see appear PLUS how to use these trends tacti...

I start by reflecting on our time in New York… then at 15:05 I bring my producer Josh onto the show to talk about how to create your own podcast, as I’m constantly asked about it on social media. We go through the cold hard truths of what having a podcast actually means… and trust me, it doesn’t mean millions automatically fall into your bank account (much to some peoples disbelief!) Remember to c...

This week, I speak to Tony Wallace about The Basis of Valuation and the Irish Property Market! We also have a good Covid and Brexit talk and put common sense back into the commercial property market!

There is so much talk about the UK property market being over inflated right now! We are fast approaching Q4 of 2020 and you probably have some lofty property investment goals. So I go through how to achieve them in this podcast. LINK TO JOIN THE WEBINAR ON MONDAY 21ST SEPTEMBER @ 7PM UK TIME --> https://propertyinvestmentmastery.lpages.co/buying-a-deal-in-an-inflated-market-how-to-hit-your-pro...

I know it's been a tough 6 months! In this episode I get candid about how I'm feeling when I take off the business hat and what I'm doing about it! It's a bit of a jumbled episode as it's still pretty fresh, but I wanted to share what's been going on so hopefully it gives you some confidence that you too are also doing just fine!  Don't forget to check out my website http://ncrealestate.co.uk...

I’m always asked what books I have found useful over the years. Today on the podcast I share my top 5 which have got me to where I am now: Life Loves You - Louise Hay and Robert Holden Do Less, Get More - Shaa Wasmund You are a Badass at Making Money - Jen Sincero She Means Business - Carrie Green Smart Women Finish Rich - David Bach Don't forget to head over to my website: https://ncrealestate.co...

I’ve seen a lot going around social media about free content v paid content. I develop my business growth on Free v Paid and there is a difference in what is offered and how each type of content operates. I also don't class my ‘paid’ services as ‘content’. At the point that you pay my firm of surveyors for a service we are on hand to help, support and advise and that for me is the difference.... A...

This is my origin story!! The Members Club is open until Thursday 20th August @ Midnight UK time. Click here ---> https://www.ncrealestatemembersclub.com to join now!