Property Investing 2.0

Short fire off-the-cuff episode.     In today's episode, I share 4 ways to add value to HMOs. These tips I've either done in the past or try to consider. Either way, it helps remind me to stay creative when looking at property deals.   These tips are also potentially transferrable to other types of rental properties. It helps to consider what someone else has missed.   Certainly a raw episode this...

Darren Williams is a leading property investor based in the UK in Cumbria. He specialises in the BRR method (Buy Refurbish Refinance) of property investing, in an aim to build a portfolio for the long-haul. In 2017 Darren had 4 BTL properties and managed to double his portfolio in just 4 months. Today, he has a portfolio worth over £1.6million and he runs Elite Property Solutions, where they help...

Jackie Tomes is the founder of Tomes Homes and Property Strategy.   She started Tomes Homes in 2013, when she spent 18 months of working two jobs, to create the deposit needed to buy the first investment property.  These days the company buys blocks of flats and focuses on customer and tenant satisfaction, in an aim to make renting better than owning. Her other company, Property Strategy- does exa...

Luke Spikes is a multiple award winning property investor.   He has an entrepreneurial career than spans over 33 years and has built several successful start-up businesses in the "high tech" & property space. He previously established international business operations on three continents and has Initiated multiple rounds of venture funding. These days he's known for being the founder and CEO of Hi...

Food for Thought Friday (FFTF)- short fire episodes of thoughts, challenges and lessons Raj has had in property investing and business.    In today's episode, I share 3 reasons why the rule of thirds doesn't really work in development and why it's a very very very rough guide at best.   Furthermore, these same reasons can help explain to vendors and land owners why their land isn't always worth wh...

Juswant Rai is a very well know investor in the UK property industry. Him and his wife Sylvia for many years ran the infamous Berkshire Property Meet. Which at the time was the biggest property networking event in the UK. Juswant began his career in IT and was "Mr 9 to 5" for life, working for the same company for over 11years, before discovering a new way through property. since beginning his pro...

Steve Rice is an experienced full time property investor and developer. Steve has been investing in property for over 15 years and has an extensive background in the construction industry, from troubleshooting on sites to quantity surveying and development. In this episode, we dive into the things he wishes he knew starting out in property. The good, the bad and the ugly side of property investing...

Adam Huzzey – Entrepreneur, Property Investor, Developer & Mindset Motivator. Adam is an enthusiastic entrepreneur who prides himself on his meticulous need for structure and organisation. His journey as a property professional really began in March 2007 when he undertook his first property course. Adam had the option to leave his nine to five job at the end of 2016 and is now investing and develo...

Mark Stokes is a well-established entrepreneur, author, business investor & of course property investor. With 26 years of Board level business and property expertise, in the construction, energy and telecoms industries, Mark has founded and operated many businesses home and abroad deploying complex global infrastructure projects from £1million - £1billion. Leaving corporate life for the last time...

Mike Frisby is a full-time property developer, investor, mentor and strategist. He is one of the most prolific investors in HMOs on the South Coast of England with hundreds of residential units and a multi-million-pound property portfolio. In this episode we dive into the ins and outs of HMO investing. Mike shares his early mistakes, lessons and investing tips. He also discusses the importance of...

Food for Thought Friday (FFTF)- short fire episodes of thoughts, challenges and lessons Raj has had in property investing and business.  Today's episode I want to share 6 things to consider when building a property portfolio. In fact, these are 6 of the things I think about when adding to my own portfolio, which I am currently actively looking to do. So, these lessons/ rules are very much fresh in...

Kamila, known as #SAgirl shares her inspiring journey of going from £120k in debt, to creating multiple 6 figure businesses using her favourite strategy – Serviced Accommodation (SA). She managed to achieve this all within the space of a few short years. In this episode we dive into the ins and outs of the SA and R2SA strategies. But also discuss the entrepreneurial mindset and how her SA business...

Today we are joined by entrepreneur, investor and tax expert Shaz Nawaz. Shaz is a chartered accountant and managing director of AA chartered accounts- Where they specialise in business and property tax advice. Shaz is also a professional speaker, author and property investor himself, with his current projects totalling over £22m in GDV. In today's episode we discuss some property investing tax ti...

Lloyd Edge is an Australian property investor who has achieved financial independence through strategic property investing. He is the author of Positively Geared, a book in which he wrote about his journey from a high school teacher to building up a large property portfolio, which is currently worth over $12 million. In today's episode Lloyd shares how he went from a teachers' salary to building a...

Food For Thought Friday (FFTF)- short fire episodes of thoughts, challenges and lessons Raj has had in property investing and business.  Today's episode is on the main reasons why people tend to never get started in property investing. These reasons have also held Raj back on his journey in the past and they may likely be different to what you think they are. It's important to be aware and recogni...

Tim Bishop is the senior partner and owner of the medium sized law firm Bonallack & Bishop Solicitors . They specialise in property among other areas and are one of the fastest growing law firms in the south of England.  Furthermore, Tim himself is a property investor, landlord and entrepreneur, which gives him a very unique perspective on property investing from a legal stand point.  In today's e...

Peter Iwaniszewski is a successful property investor and entrepreneur.  Having started with nothing, Peter has manged to build a multi-million pound property portfolio over the last 10 years. His portfolio of 30+ rental properties allowed him to quit his job and buy back his time to work on his own terms.  He is also the owner and managing director of Embrace Property- a sourcing and property mana...

Mike Bristow is the CEO and co-founder of Crowd Property, one of the UK's leading property peer-to-peer lending platforms.  Since their launch in 2014, they have build a platform with thousands of investors and have invested close to £100 million into small and medium sized development projects.  In this episode we discuss the ins and outs of Crowd Property, peer-to-peer lending and how its works...

Food for Thought Friday- Short fire episodes of thoughts, challenges and lessons Raj has had in property investing and business. Today's episode is on Joint Ventures and how they can help on your property investing journey.  Raj shares how JV's and partnerships have played a big part in his property investing and business endeavours. He also shares 3 of the key elements required to make a property...

Ranjan is well known in the UK property investing world. He is a successful property investor with over 30 years experience and is considered to be one of the UK's leading property experts.  He has built an extensive portfolio of residential and commercial property in the London area. He is on the judging panel of the Property Investor Awards and hosts the UK's number 1 property networking meeting...

Food For Thought Friday- Short fire episodes of thoughts, challenges and lessons Raj has had in property investing and business.  Today's episode is based on a short article Raj wrote a couple of years back. A list of 7 of the biggest lessons he has learnt so far on his property investing and development journey. 

Susannah is one of the UK's most successful self made property investors. Breaking out from the corporate lifestyle she followed her dreams and set up the Good Property Company, which she has now been running for over ten years.  Susannah became a property millionnaire within 3 1/2 years of starting her business. She sourced over 200 deals and £45million worth of property at an agreed purchase pri...

Food For Thought Friday- Short fire episodes of thoughts, challenges and lessons Raj has had in property investing and business.  Today's episode is on sunk cost bias and how it can affect our decision making when investing in property deals.  Just because you spent a lot of time, effort and money on a past decision, does not give that any greater value over today's decisions and choices.   

David is an experienced property investor, developer and landlord.  He has over 20 years experience delivering over £50 million worth of projects in both the commercial and residential sectors. Such projects include everything from health clubs and large corporate offices to new build homes. In this episode we discuss some of the differences between commercial and residential projects and some of...

Food For Thought Friday- Short fire episodes of thoughts, challenges and lessons Raj has had in property investing and business.  Today's episode is a lesson learnt from Richard Branson's Boeing Storey on protecting the downside in business and how this lesson is transferable to property investing.