Honest Property Investment with Natasha Collins

This week’s podcast is jam-packed with A LOT of NB info. First up, I want to celebrate a little (actually a HUGE) win, and that’s that in the last 3 months, I’ve had 99% occupancy on Air BnB… Hell yes!! In the podcast, I’m also going to go through the Levelling up and Regeneration Bill - this is going to be unveiled in the Queen’s Speech next month on Tuesday the 10th May. The aim is to revamp hig...

In today's podcast, I'm going to be going through some very important Updates in Commercial Property from April 2022.  This is information you need to know as a property investor, and I've laid it out so that you know where you stand and what you need to be doing.  If you have any questions around the topics I've chatted about, you can email natasha@ncrealestate.co.uk Enjoy today's podca...

Using your SSAS to Invest in Commercial Property. My inbox has been buzzing with this topic and so I thought I’d start addressing it. I’m a surveyor, I get involved at the point a client already has a SSAS and then wants to invest in commercial property. My job is putting together the property investment strategy and executing it. So, if you’re someone who doesn’t yet have a SSAS and wants one ple...

Today I want to talk about finding investment finance. This is a throwback episode to when I invited Daniel Woods from Momentum Property to chat with me about 25 ways to find money for a deposit. This was such a succinct and successful podcast that I thought I would bring it out again so that you can go through it. It's certainly worth every minute of your time! We chat about creative ways of find...

Today's podcast is a throwback on the topic of Rest with one of my favorite authors, Alex Soojung-Kim Pang.  I’ve been using the wisdom from the podcast over the last few weeks while taking some "off the camera" time off (maternity leave). This doesn't mean I haven't been working! The full story is in my weekly newsletter. If you'd like to sign up for that, you can email Lorenza (lorenza@ncre...

On the 27th of July 2021, I did an awesome webinar on how to search and buy your next investment property. I’m not sure if you were able to attend it, but even if you were there is some *really life-changing* info in it. So what I’ve done is recorded an abridged version of the webinar because I think you need the goodness that is included in these slides. Essentially, these are your key takeaways....

I guarantee that if you are struggling to find the right property the reason will be one or all of the following: You haven’t set goals and conditions for the right property You aren’t being targeted enough in your search area You’ve not spoken to enough agents You haven’t been to enough viewings You haven’t made enough offers and negotiated hard enough If any of the above is true, then you must c...

In this week’s podcast, I do a throwback to an incredibly popular interview with Adam Vickers. We chat about how he’s built his property portfolio in Reading and his property business across the rest of the UK through using JV’s and investors. This is jam-packed full of tips and tricks, it’s one not to miss! Have you watched my "Crossing over to Commercial" mini-course? You're going to love it! It...

GET ACCESS TO CROSSING OVER TO COMMERCIAL BY CLICKING HERE If you’re not here for Pregnancy content, you can skip this weeks newsletter/pod. But let me tell you it’s been my most requested podcast and so here it is, warts and all. Currently I’m on Maternity leave. Team NCRE have me covered and are still running the ship because I have the best team of Surveyors and  Property experts so servic...

Have you started my free mini-course Crossing Over to Commercial?  It’s prompting a lot of questions, which I’m more than happy to answer… here’s a biggie: ‘ You say only search in one location, but I can’t find any BMV deals there, so can I expand my search ?’ No 👏 no 👏 no Mainly because… BMV (below market value)  just isn’t a thing in commercial property (I don’t believe it is in res...

I’m going to start by celebrating the fact that after 3 valuations I finally got a valuation for my remortgage that is what I wanted it to be… the RIGHT VALUE! I had to get to that figure mainly because I had my second charge mortgage relying on it and quite frankly, anything less and I was going to be out of pocket, which I’m not doing. To keep you in suspense, I’ll give you the names of the lend...

You can sign up to Crossing Over to Commercial HERE First things first, I need to get a public announcement out there to ask… please, commercial agents, stop with the Catfishing! I just can’t… What do I mean?! Pricing property deals way too low so that you get eyeballs or bids and then being shocked when I call up and give you an offer at the market price and you saying ‘No that’s way too low!’. E...

It may sound obvious that you MUST be good at decision making in order to be a property investor… But it truly shocks me the number of investors who say to me ‘ is this a good deal, would you buy it? ’ Because that’s not the question you should be asking. That’s asking me to judge a deal based on decisions I’d make for my own portfolio… that’s not your portfolio and your goals. I know for a fact t...

Now it's time to focus and I want you to listen closely because there are some tripping hazards in 2022, that if you don’t concentrate on, will slow your property investment success this year. The biggest tripping hazard… F👏I👏N👏A👏N👏C👏E (Finance) Firstly, if you need an affirmation, use ‘There will always be finance for my property’... I firmly believe that. However, it’s taking longer than e...

After last weeks podcast about the 10 business mistakes I’ve made, it also got me thinking about the biggest risks I’ve taken to get to where I am right now. Success doesn’t happen through luck or coincidence, it happens because you keep putting yourself out there again and again and again until something sticks… here’s a summary of the risks I have taken which have made me laugh and cry, I go int...

It’s getting to the end of the year and firstly I’m getting reflective… for the second year in a row we’re about to double NC Real Estate’s income… in fact it’s doubled today and we’ve still got 4 months until the end of the year. It’s crazy, certainly something that when I sit down and reflect with Lorenza and the rest of my team, I wouldn’t have even imagined being able to do back in 2016-17 whe...

I didn’t know how to sum up this email and subsequent podcast in anymore of a succinct way then simply: Moving House, Serviced Accommodation Sometimes Sucks and Resident Meetings because that has been the last two weeks of my life. Maybe… now I’m reflecting on the podcast I just recorded, all of the chaos happened with my US portfolio and I’m just not used to dealing with Amercians and I’m a fish...

Click Here to join my Webinar on Monday 6th December The 5 Step Process to nailing down and executing your Property Investment Strategy ...over the next 12 months - https://ncrealestate.co.uk/december2021 It took 6 months to go through but finally the commercial property in Barnstaple completed!! There are a lot of lessons that I’ve learnt here: If you buy a commercial property (that’s wholly comm...

SIGN UP For the December webinar HERE I float this question because there is always so much buzz around the next creative strategy… HMO’s, which are a product of the private investment market and have been picked up and ran with by small time investors thinking they are about to make a quick buck… when over the years legislation and increased health and safety (which is necessary) have decreased n...

Sign up for the Webinar on the 6th December HERE If you’ve seen where the hype is in the commercial property market, you’ll know it’s great big massive sheds somewhere around the midlands where all the big online retailers are gathering on good supply routes. We’ve seen cap rates (yields) down as low as 3.5%, the reason being, they are seen as ‘safe bet investments’ for large pension pots and big...

I’ve invited the next Team NCRE member onto the Pod, Doug Parker, our asset management surveyor. We talk about how the mundane actually can be the most lucrative. Why you need to be patient and the secondary / tertiary locations we’d be investing in for good commercial property deals RIGHT NOW… but you’re going to need to listen to the podcast to find that out! Fill out this questionnaire for what...

This week I've invited Lorenza Allan who is the community manager for the Members Club onto the podcast to discuss how small wins add up to big things in property investment! Remember to come and follow this podcast @honestpropertyinvestment

JOIN THE MEMBERS CLUB AT £97/MONTH FOR THE LAST TIME HERE Last night I hosted a webinar, which covered exactly how and why commercial property is so tasty right now. Whilst it’s still turbulent times in the commercial sector… some tenants are still struggling. Some property is still lying empty. But, that seems to be the exception, not the rule (well in my experience). The trick is that rather tha...

Before I get started, make sure to register for my webinar on Monday 25th October at 6:30pm UK time: How to Supercharge Your Portfolio through buying Commercial property, Without jumping on the Commercial to Residential bandwagon . Have you been feeling like you’re rushing your property investment journey recently? Maybe you feel like things aren’t happening quickly enough? If you’ve answered YES...

Before I get started this week, I’m putting this up top… come join me LIVE on Monday 25th October at 6:30pm for my webinar: How to Supercharge Your Portfolio through buying Commercial Property without jumping on the commercial to residential bandwagon. Just click the link ⬆️ and pop in your name and email and I’ll send you the details. I’m always curious about the changing nature of the mortgage i...