Practical Property Talk

🎙️ Be Bold. Think Big. When the world hit pause during COVID, some sat still — others pushed forward. Arden Hart chose the latter. From touring with well-known bands to staring down an empty calendar, Arden found himself with nothing but time… and he used it wisely. He turned his attention to property, and what followed was bold, brave, and a little bit bonkers. His first purchase? Done entirely o...

It’s that time again — the Friday catch-up! As we close out the month, it’s been a great opportunity to check in on the portfolio — and we’re finishing strong. A quiet month operationally (always a win in this game), which means fewer headaches and a healthier bottom line. That’s the kind of consistency that keeps the engine ticking. But that’s not all… This week also marks the launch of The Prope...

🎙️ BIG ANNOUNCEMENT – THE PROPERTY DEAL DEN IS COMING 🔑 For those who’ve been tuning in to the pod, you’ll know it’s been a busy few months behind the scenes. Joe and Taylor have had their heads down, building serious momentum and locking in deal flow. And now… we’re lifting the lid on what we’ve been working on. Introducing The Property Deal Den — a no-fluff, time-sensitive channel where the dea...

Another week in property… and what a ride it’s been. We kicked things off on a high — full of energy and optimism after agreeing the sale of one of our plots over the weekend. But by Monday lunchtime… boom. Offer withdrawn. Not second thoughts, third thoughts. The joys of the game. Still, we cracked on. Plenty of great conversations followed, and behind the scenes, the team’s been pushing hard on...

Finance... the bugbear of many in property — but one we can't afford to ignore. So let’s get stuck into the money talk. I reached out to Grant Poole-Adams, who’s always putting out solid, informative content across the socials, and asked him to jump on for a catch-up. What followed was a cracking conversation. Grant's journey in property is a unique one — from delivering the Property Trader newspa...

It’s that Friday takeaway from the 83 Group — and what a week it’s been. Full throttle, forward momentum, and good energy all round. Refurbs are steaming ahead and bang on track. The team’s graft is paying off and the vision’s coming to life. Behind the scenes, we’ve had some constructive sit-downs around the off-market opportunities we’ve been quietly grinding on for the last six months. No short...

The right attitude... This week, Joe put me in touch with Sean Boyce after their met up and we got into talking about having the right attitude is key to working on in property.. Sean and his Mum have built a nice portfolio which gave Sean the freedom to travel which was one of his goals when he got going in property. We talk about what its like working with family, the instant trust and support e...

Good evening, another week has passed us by and this week we see a very administrative week but a positive week because of the systems and structures we have put in place over the past seven months Anyone who has followed our journey will hear how I wish I had spent more time at the beginning getting those systems in place early on. SEVEN OFFERS all submitted this week for our clients on off marke...

As we got cut off mid-flow discussing the 1.5 million housing target, we jumped straight back in to finish what was turning into a fascinating conversation. This time, we dived deep into grey and green belt plots, with Richard breaking down the key differences and explaining how varying landscapes can directly influence site pricing and the future GDV potential. One big takeaway from my discussion...

July rolls in, marking the start of Q3 — the perfect time to reset, refocus, and reload. As tradition demands, we kick things off with our monthly meet-up at the Halfway House in Brentwood, where the conversation flows as freely as the coffee. This month, once again, we’ve heard the all-too-familiar tales of people shelling out good money for so-called coaches, yet still left high and dry when it...

Experience.... can you put a price on it.. this week we have been lucky enough to be joined by Richard Little who has over 40 years of experience in property. We talk how many developers feel batter and bruised in recent years... and from our small time in property I couldn't agree with the statement any more. Richard shares his experiences in land, planning, construction and house building... the...

End of June sees us half way through the year…. And to finish the second quarter of the year this week we have through our intensive work with off mark property opportunities put forward for our clients over 10millions pounds worth of offers… On the development side we are extremely close to securing another successful planning application and completed one project started another project and ahea...

Over the past 8plus year of being full time in property I have met many people and been lucky enough to build some good friendships.... its been great to see some achieve and move on... so why not get on one of the oldest of my property friends who has now left the country and headed to dubai... Me and Rob chat over a time in property and how/why its so important to really get to know someone befo...

We have been there and tried to make the money work, but the ''numbers are the numbers'' this week we have Sam Bastow of Tudor gate Homes jump on and join us for a conversation about his experience in new build development. Listen to how Sam used to set his alarm to get up to watch just to watch Homes under the hammer before starting his property journey. Sam gives us a interesting take on going s...

The week of the snag.. As with any project when you get to the end of the project their are always a few things that need wrapping up before we get to sign off the project. The renovation down at benfleet is going well and the new team are really pushing forward. We have submitted multiple offers this week but most have been rejected as expectations that by agents are to high from most vendors and...

I often wonder what it's like for trades and other professional services that work with us the investors... So why not jump on a chat with someone who does this a lot. This week we are lucky enough to be joined by Rob Neobard and architect I am lucky enough to be able to say I get to spend time with each month at the SEPDC group. We talk over the views of what its like to work with investors and d...

The first week of month see our monthly meet up which again brought about some great conversations and ahhh haaa moments,.... Its great joy to us that each month we get to chat to many members of the community. We have installed a few new process and procedures through using AI and understand the massive benefit to utilising this and feel that if your not involved your going to get left behind. Ne...

Effort goes a long way! Thanks for jumping on and taking a listen to the 83 property practical property podcast and this week with us we have Taylor jump on and share his experiences in property since joining us just three months ago. Take an listen to Taylor's thoughts after being full time in property for just three months now, we talk over how this is a lifestyle and not a 9-5 role. This was pr...

Its another week over and another month gone.. May 25 over... into month 6 of the year already and halfway through this year long journey following us on our weekly updates.. This week we see the good and the bad on the build teams... as two different projects take different directions. We show you how we are structuring deals and using incentives to get agents to work with us to increase the prof...

25 years as friends, and now over 100 transactions in and 8 years of battling through the world of property chasing that ''passive income'' take a listen to the sorts of conversation me (Gav) and Joe the other side of 83 property have. Take a listen to some of the snippets of our journery. Listen to Joe side of the journey and his take away from our journey to this point. We touch on how taking ti...

Evening, this week listen to how we have offered the opportunity to assist out community to hold themselves accountable by chasing us for undercover property meet ups. This has leads to a great response from the community, brought about three leads and three offers.. which gives me a great about of self satisfaction to see that by helping others to take action results do come. W have secured a dea...

This week, join me (Gav) Joe and Taylor in a group chat about the direction we are currently going, as we are connecting vendors to the developer and investor we know. Our first group chat on air, listen to the types of conversations and thoughts we as a group at 83 property have. Taylor explains what he has picked up early on in being full time in property and Joe explains what it's like to get o...

This week we continued our meetings with vendors and investors and we was greeted with a present from a vendor... The present turned out to be a shoe horn... YES a shoe horn... this has lead to multiple conversations and take us down a path of finding our own creactive gift to start handing out to our contacts new and old... To leave a print/stamp remembrance to all. We have now got to gether 98 n...

Off the back of another successful podcast last week with Martin, we have today the pleasure of being joined by Bruce who assists martin with running the GB Landlords group. Bruce become an accidental landlord when his aunty gave him some properties, after being made redundant from the banking world Bruce took to property to start and then run a letting agency and has built up a wealth of knowledg...

How many people understand the ''Business'' of property. It comes up more and more as we get further and further into our property journey and the more and more people we are meeting. So this week we got Martin Wardle of TH Ward to jump on and chat to us about his experiences within property and the way the tax world is so important to those in or getting into property. What an interesting convers...