The Business of Property

Simon and Stuart chat about the current property market, looking at stocks and shares investment for parking deposit funds, and what to do following an awkward tenant departure. The discussion this week includes: Some interesting properties appearing recently. ROI . Comparing price changes over 5 years with very similar houses in the same street. Challenger bank savings interest rates. Vanguard ....

Stuart and Simon are joined by property auction data expert, David Sandeman. David has been watching property auctions for over 30 years and he shares his tips for auction success, what's changed for auctions during the pandemic and a view to the future of property auctions. The chat this week includes: Special guest David Sandeman from Essential Information Group . The auction history of a partic...

Simon and Stuart are chatting about stories and stats that have recently caught their eyes in the property world. The discussion this week includes: The recent Zoopla / Hometrack price index . How long can the current trend continue? Where have all the sellers gone? Looking at flats vs houses. Property transactions fell 63% from June to July . Legal thoughts on the "easy read" version of the How t...

Stuart and Simon start with a quick crypto investment update and then turn their focus to snagging. What is snagging? How does the snagging process work? Can you keep your snagging process on-track? The chat this week includes: Our previous episode with a crypto investment update . Cryptocurrency investment progress update from Simon. Skepticism on blockchains disrupting property markets. What is...

This week Simon and Stuart are chatting about a personal court experience - how it arose, progressed and of course the result. Listen for potentially very important and hard learnt lessons. Sorry for the minor audio issues. The chat this week includes: Our previous episode with Stehpanie Taylor - see below for her free book offer. Torts (Interference with Goods) Act . Something for Stuart to look...

Stuart and Simon are talking about difficulties that can arise around a tenant who's having trouble moving on. Sorry for the minor audio issues. The discussion this week includes: Our previous episode with Stehpanie Taylor - see below for her free book offer. Selling difficulties. Leaving tenants. Strange tenant communications. How does a tenant in rent arrears convince a new landlord? How should...

Simon and Stuart take a look at serviced accommodation and how it can be used to replace the average UK salary. Listen for a realistic exploration of the figures involved, investment required and time needed to build a serviced accommodation business. Sorry for the fluctuating audio! The chat this week includes: Replacing your salary with rent-to-rent . Replacing your salary with an HMO portfolio...

Stephanie Taylor joins Stuart and Simon to chat about her own success in property. Starting with rent to rent and now expanding to ownership, commercial to residential conversion and multi-unit block investment. Make sure you read the show notes for a great offer from Stephanie to get a copy of her Rent to Rent Success book for free! The discussion this week includes: The many things Stephanie is...

This week Simon and Stuart are chatting about progress and events in their property (and cryptocurrency) investments. The chat this week includes: Are The Property Podcast spying on us? We talk about cryptocurrencies They talk about bitcoin Land Registry property/fraud alert service . Download title deeds from the Land Registry . Validating property ownership for R2R. An update on Simon's cryptocu...

Stuart and Simon turn their salary replacement analysis to property investment with a buy-to-let strategy. What would it take to build a BTL portfolio that provides enough income to replace the average UK salary? Listen to find out! The discussion this week includes: Our previous episodes on replacing your salary with rent-to-rent and replacing your salary with HMOs . What is vanilla buy-to-let? C...

This week Simon and Stuart are talking about two recent house price index reports and what they show about the property market at the moment. Plus a discussion on the government Kickstart Scheme and the process for your property business to benefit from it. The chat this week includes: Halifax House Price Index - June 2021 . Nationwide House Price Index - June/Q2 2021 . Our previous thoughts on ma...

Stuart and Simon chat to Imran Lokhon about the planning permission process and other property business topics including sourcing, development and building property teams. The discussion this week includes: How Imran got started in property (and planning). Imran's podcast . Starting in property sourcing. Around 2008 was a very lucrative time to be buying property. Travel still needed to get deals...

Simon and Stuart talk about the ending (or changing) stamp duty holiday and what it might mean for the property market. Stuart also chats about his experiences trying out short lets via Airbnb. The chat this week includes: Stuart's race against the stamp duty holiday ending. Stamp duty holiday changes "Never not complete on completion day." Fallout from Scotland's LBTT holiday end. Property listin...

This week it's HMO property investment that Stuart and Simon look at for their salary replacement analysis. What would it take to build an HMO portfolio that provides enough income to replace the average UK salary? Listen to find out! The discussion this week includes: Our previous episode on replacing your salary with rent-to-rent . An average UK salary. Buying and renting HMO investment property...

Simon and Stuart are covering a couple of pieces of property news this week. They introduce Rent Repayment Orders and chat about an article covering recent court cases; then talk about the latest changes to Section 21 based evictions. The chat this week includes: Rent Repayment Orders (RRO) . Replacing your salary with rent-to-rent . Some recent RRO court cases . Crazy things dodgy landlords and r...

Stuart and Simon take a realistic look at the numbers involved in creating a rent-to-rent (R2R) property portfolio designed to replace your salary. They answer questions such as "What capital do you need?" and "How long will it take?". The discussion this week includes: Are Stuart and Simon trying to replace their salary? The average UK salary. Why replace your salary - what would it mean to you?...

Listen in this week for (yet more) chat about flats in Redhill and investments outside property, including an adventure in cryptocurrency investment! The chat this week includes: A previous episode about a block of flats (and a spreadsheet) . That block of flats . The flat up for auction (again) . Leasehold reform. Extending a lease. Returns from freehold block investment. Investments outside prop...

Join Stuart and Simon for another updates episode - chatting about the latest ups, downs and changes in their property businesses. The discussion this week included: Stuart's bad news. Continuing from our last updates episode . Making the hard phone calls. The pain is the lost time. PaTMa property price history browser extension . How many viewings in two weeks? Getting agents attention in a hot m...

Simon and Stuart have made a property investment spreadsheet! Follow the link in the notes to have a look. Then listen for a full walk through and analysis of the investment scenarios. The chat this week includes: A previous episode about a block of flats . That block of flats . The flat up for auction . (No these notes aren't just a duplicate of last week !) Investment scenarios spreadsheet . Exp...

Simon and Stuart start with a chat about a flat they've seen before and what someone else's strategy might be for it. They also discuss what's involved in self managing a tenant change and some property maintenance - including the actual amount of money and time - plus how it could be improved. The discussion this week included: A previous episode about a block of flats . That block of flats . The...

Stuart and Simon cover some recent updates in their property businesses - from renting rooms to issues selling properties and the cost of an EWS1 survey. The chat this week includes: Results from changing letting agent. Advertising on different channels. "Can you put a hot tub in the garden?" Increased rent following a design-led refurbishment . Re-opening lines of communication. Problems two days...

Simon and Stuart respond to a request for their thoughts on the next 5 years in the property market - along with reviewing recent price index reports. The discussion this week included: Our recent chat about the property market . Property market reports: Nationwide , Halifax , e.surv , and Hamptons rental index . Chris asked about the next 5 years . Why do we/people try to predict the property mar...

Stuart and Simon provide updates on their recent property business experiences. They chat about property maintenance, tradespeople, and knowing your market. The chat this week includes: Tenants leaving. Dealing with leaks and resulting mould. Maintenance, maintenance, maintenance. EICR deadline and electrician availability. Tradespeople availability. Materials availability. EWS1 saga . Beware of y...

Simon and Stuart talk about recent news of some unusually high numbers in the property market. The discussion this week included: UK residential transactions in February 2021 is 147,050, 48.5% higher than February 2020 . Pressure from the stamp duty holiday vs real market demand. Pandemic effects on the property market. What might the property market look like over the next year. Over 9 million Ri...

Stuart and Simon chat about their varied experiences with recent tenant demand for rooms and properties they've let. The chat this week includes: A lack of tenants. Choosing your channel to match your market. 13 of 15 new rooms filled. Beating the HMO oversupply around Gatwick. OpenRent and Visum . Crazy single-let demand - nearly 30 enquiries in a week. Perhaps not actually looking for a short te...