Practical Property Talk

WOWS another week over and that clears up April 25. As you can tell from the drained demeanor in my voice April has been a challenge but we ended it strongly with the sale of two sourced properties. Our 3-5 bed refurb is pushing forward and the kitchen starts going in on Tuesday next week, our direct to vendor project nears a close with the submission of permitted development planning. To finish o...

“You networking your networth” “you are who you surround yourself with” And property and construction is a people industry still… but how do you find these people. Networking and social media are a major factor in building a good solid network… and new we have the Uk Homes Network platform. So what better time than to bring on board Chris one of the founders of the NEW property platform that they...

This week live from our investment area…. Yes we spend time there and yes we spend time away from home… that’s another sacrifice people don’t see. Checking in on site to find it’s not finished…. Yes it happens and yes trades will tell u they have done it…. But it’s not all bad…. Completed on one deal and getting ready to offer on a couple of others ..Joe and Taylor are working round the clock to f...

Find out work around. with Ian Mcbain Jnr. This week we are lucky enough to be joined by Ian Jnr, after hearing his Dads story a few weeks back I wanted to speak to Ian to drive deeper into his story in property. Ian talks over how he has gone from doing property on the side when he was a fireman to building a Rent to Rent business of 30 units across Essex. Ian describes how when his back is again...

Happy Easter all….. this Good Friday myself (Gav) Joe and Taylor took ourselves to a direct to vendor purchase lease option project … Utilising the time to meet some agents, investors, sourcing agents and check the team where on site So to prove we do some works we jumped on the tools for a bit of a one off… So we do get our hands dirty some times Was a good way to finish what’s been a tough week...

This week let’s find out a little more about Gav….. on this episode I’ll dive into how the 83 name and logo came about, and why I think the brand is soo important I’ll share more about Journey and my outlook on what makes me tick and how looking back now I see certain parts of my life have helped give me the motivation and desire to push forward.. Hope you learn a little more about my part of 83 p...

It’s what’s been a up and down week, we have plenty to celebrate in terms of positive responses from our direct to vendor campaign . One deal completed and across the line that’s been worked on for the last few months. BUT we have been totally let down by one buyer and they are refusing to answer the phone.. WHY don’t people answer the phone, why hide behind what’s app messages? A way of business...

No such thing as a small job..... This week we had the pleasure of being joined by Dave Forde, who takes us on his journey in property and highlights some very interesting and key parts that most in property overlook. Dave has great experience as a chartered construction manager and we talk over the importance of health and safety and having the ''right procedures'' and systems in place AS IT YOUR...

WOW, week one of quarter 2 of 2025 is over... The first week of each month see's our monthly meet up at the halfway house, brentwood. The ever growing group always give's us great motivation to push forward and do more. A great place to chat over with those that come down all things property and investing. We have a very productive week with meetins and viewings, but NOW is the time to convert som...

''Don't get folded up like a deck chair'' why do we overlook the systems. No matter how fast you have to move, never forget the systems. Yet so many people we meet along the way all end up saying we wish we had the right contracts, systems in place. What better time than now to get Richard Stone join us for an uncensored chat about implementing project management into the world of property investm...

END OF Q1 Wow three months down already of 2025. What a lovely sunny week, and what a good productive week at the 83 group. Over a 1000 Direct to vendor letters now sent out in the last two weeks, leading to multiple meetings and opportunities already in the first few days of sending those letters out. Adding new systemised templates to the working practice by using AI has helped shape the directi...

''Action breads results'' the sort of quote you expect to hear from a professional athlete in what it takes to succeed in sport. Well this week what a privilege to be joined by ex professional footballer Chris Ribeiro.. and much of the world of sport is very similar to life in property, highs, lows, tough, lonely, enjoyable, stressful, emotional the list goes on. Chris describes to us how he has g...

Well what a week for 83 property group, we welcome on board Taylor Donaldson to the team to help push us forward to the next level of reaching more vendors and connecting more of our investors and developers to these vendors. Welcome to the team..... already in week one we have worked on a new Direct to vendor system that has seen the 700 leads being generated to send out this weekend to potential...

Quitting your job two months into your property journey to go full time. Move 250 miles, ride 20 miles on a fold up bike to do viewings... Thanks to this week's guest Milly of @postingproperty we get a great insight into the efforts we as investors go to... Milly's story in property is more than interesting and has been incredibly challenging. From listening back to the conversation we had what an...

Well this week sees the start of another project by us at 83 property.... Joe heads off for a much deserved break while Gav heads to the emptiness of a field to take part in the great tommy sleep out.. The main topics and points of conversation from meetings this week, have been 'lets make it personal' Do we celebrate enough, do we enjoy the journey, do take back what we put in. How do we enjoy it...

Imagine starting investing in property before the BTL mortgage was an option... This week we have Ian McBain Senior join us from Estuary living. We at 83 property have the pleasure to be apart of the developers club that meet monthly to which Ian and his son are a big part of the group. Ian shares his story from buying his first property in 1988 for 6k to how he has followed his family to Southend...

As the new month starts we see our monthly meet up… a lot of time and energy goes into running the network and event BUT this hold us accountable and we find it very motivating to be around the network…. The introduction and development of AI is going to be very interesting in the coming months for the property world and the 83 property group.

Wows, another month down... 83 property have had a great month and has been very positive with plenty of properties being sent into legals.. we have agreed to sell two of our properties we had on the market aswell as shift on one of our original properties. Working hard with our client base and connecting investors and developers to our vendor list is starting to build a very strong pipeline which...

Property managers... a key and critical part of property business.... So this week we were lucky enough to have Benjamin Lawrence reach out and join us to talk over his experiences as a property manager.. we trade stories of tenants and get a management agents point of view rather than the bias of the landlord, an interesting insight from the ''other side'' How agents have to manage both the expec...

This week has flown by and feels as though not much has happened… but it’s been one of those weeks where it’s the behind the scenes work that makes the busy weeks seem better. Those admin days and meetings that need to take place in order for the pipe line to be so strong…

This week we was lucky enough to be joined by Ray Catchpole of Catchpole stays and Lettings. Ray has been active in the industry for many years now and has a real interesting story of the importance of remaining consistent and preserving to achieve the end goal no matter what property throws at you. From accidential landlords and friends and family telling them not to get into property Ray has now...

This week we have gone and put ourselves out and around a lot of people and really seen the benefits of consistently turning up. Our weekly walk has lead to the co sourcing of two deals with a good contact of ours and lead us to a few very good potential meetings with new clients. Consistency is key to property… Until next week, keep showing up

Success comes from starting..... What a great attitude and an approach I find so suitable to property. This week we have Toyin of Icon Range join us and talk us how they jumped straight into property after watching Homes under the hammer... and deciding property was the route for her and their family. Over the 13 years after buying a property via an auction journey Toyin explains how each day is a...

I was pleased this week to be joined by David Bailey, one of the founders of the SEPDC group I am lucky enough to be a part of. Dave talks us this week through how he has gone from being a landscape architect working on projects such as the London Olympics 2012 to working on using a clear strategy to achieve his long term goals from property. David's portfolio currently includes high end HMO's and...

Wow... what a week we have had... taking stock on what was achieved in January. Something in the past we havent done enough of. But in 2025 we have new systems and structures in place to assist in achieving our yearly goals. New weekly meet ups between Myself and Joe to ensure we are both alined with the direction we going in The biggest take away from this week was the success of our monthly meet...