The Game Of Loans Podcast

This episode is a little less property focused, directly as we welcome the amazing Billy Garton Jr to the show. Billy runs a social media marketing business so knows a thing or two about marketing your business online. In times like these, it’s vital to keep active, visual, and work on your business as a whole, whilst many of us cannot attend to the day to day we would normally. Billy and I discus...

We’ve got a real treat today as I’m joined by The Millionaire Clown himself, James Sinclair! James has spent his whole life (well from 15 anyway) building a fantastic multi-million entertainment business, and branched out into child care. This allowed James to build a sustainable property business in very strong foundations, and in this episode he explains how he’s done it, and how you can too! Yo...

Today I’m talking to Raquel and Raj of Redefine Reality Property. These HMO and Co-Living investors have come into property in a pretty unorthodox why. Raj was an engineer and Raquel has a background in interior design and hospitality. As such they come at property from a really unique vantage point, and it shows in the way they talking about their research and how they create their co-living spac...

On today’s show, I’m talking to George and Hannah of Dugard Property, an investment, rent to rent and sourcing business. Predominately sourcers, George and Hannah have had very different backgrounds, which has led them into building a sustainable, growing and multifaceted property business. Property sourcers get a bad rep, as it’s seen as the “easy” was into property, but George and Hannah disagre...

Today is a very special episode as we have property royalty on the show today! Sue Sims is the queen of the social housing strategy, having carved out a very specific niche in this area, following on from growing a single let and HMO portfolio in the Birmingham area. Sue really is the authority on how you can use the social housing model to reallocate your current portfolio to create a more passiv...

Something different today on The Game of Loans Podcast, as it’s time for me to be interviewed on using marketing and social media to grow your property business and online profile. I talk with Natalie Campbell-Reid, one half of the London Property Siblings (@londonpropertysiblings on Instagram) about how using social media can help you attract the right kinds of people to you, and how to use diffe...

Now many of you don’t realise this but I have a very particular way in which I choose the people I ask to be on the podcast... and it’s pretty simple really... I interview people who I want to talk to, and who I have questions for! I’m cheating basically, using the podcast to mask the fact that I’d just love some FaceTime (or zoom time in most cases) with them so I can learn things myself! Of cour...

Today I’m joined by the marvellous Matthew Stayt, Senior Associate st DKLM. What Matthew doesn’t know about commercial conveyancing isn’t worth knowing and in this episode we talk specifically about the legal process of buying a property when using more specialist finance, such as bridging, development finance or commercial mortgages. You can reach out to Matthew by connecting with him on LinkedIn...

A lots been going on in the property and finance market since lockdown was announced and I was invited by Brendan Quinn to talk about the various distributions and breakdowns to the process on a Facebook live video, so I wanted to share this with you. I run through the application process from start to finish, picking up at each point there has been a distribution, and explaining why there has bee...

One thing I’m asked a lot by new clients is “do I need experience to get a good buy to let mortgage?” The quick answer to this is “not necessarily” but there are a few more questions to answer on this subject. It’s not just about buy to let mortgages, but also the type, such as HMO (House of Multiple Occupancy), SA (Serviced Accommodation) or social housing, all of which have slightly different mo...

Today I’m joined by Vicki Peers. Vicki is an ex-teacher who feel into property by accident, but found a love for buy to let and flourished. She’s since gone full circle and is now teaching other budding property investors all about investing in Liverpool, through her education company “Inside Liverpool”. We talk about the hot topic of property education, and as Vicki explains, it’s not all the sam...

On todays video I am joined by property auction expert Jay Howard. Jay is one half of the writing and presenting duo behind "Before the Hammer Falls" and the Partners in Property London networking meet. Jay has been in property over 18 years, buying his first ever property, at auction, at the age of just 17! He talks about how buying this property taught him you can never have enough exit strategi...

“Business as usual” I’ve heard this more times in the last couple of weeks than I care to think. Mainly from mortgage lenders. As much as I am dead against a lot of the OTT scaremongering and negative coverage, I also think everyone has to be responsible and not go too far in the other direction. We’ve had disruption in the property industry, but we are not on lockdown like some sources have sugge...

Today I'm joined by Daryl Norkett, from bridging and development lender LendWell. Daryl is a product specialist, having formally played an instrumental role in creating mortgage and funding products for commercial bank Shawbrook. In this video, we discuss the role lenders can play in keeping up with property investor trends, and how this will be vital over the next 12 months of recession and recov...

Today’s episode is one for the brain boxes amongst you, as I welcome Adam Lawrence to The Game of Loans Podcast. As well as being one of the founders of the fantastic Partners in Property networking events, Adam is an investor in his own right, and has a history in wealth management and degrees in economics, so this episode is certainly not for the faint of heart! Adam discusses pretty in depth ec...

In today’s episode I explain the concept of Bridge to Let, a new innovative lending product that came to the market last year. I’ve been asked a lot by those in my property community, as well as my clients, about bridge to let over the past few months, so I wanted to dive into what it is, what it can be used for, and who it’s made for. Contact Information: www.facebook.com/samnorrisproperty www.in...

Since the outbreak of coronavirus probably the hottest topic in the property world has been that of surveys and valuations. So today I wanted to address this with Commercial Director of the VAS panel, Daniel Owen-Parr. Daniel is uniquely positioned as not only has he spent a large proportion of his career working with lenders, but as the commercial director at VAS, he overseas 172 surveyors throug...

On this episode I’m talking to the man behind the Mic, Tej Singh. Most people know Tej from his amazingly successful property podcast Tej Talks, bit Tej himself is also a successful property investor in his own right. In just 8 months, Tej has given up his day job and become financially free, amassing a portfolio worth £1m+, and today he shares his story, as well as of course, discussing the impor...

Today I’m talking with Mark Posniak, MD at Octane Capital, the only lender boasting to have no products (they do lend... but everything in bespoke). Mark has been in the short term lending space in the UK for over 13 years, and as such, as seen his fair share of ups and downs. Today we discuss the state of play in market, what lenders can do to keep the market moving, how social distancing is effe...

Today I’m joined by Gareth Lewis, commercial director at bridging lender MT Finance. Gareth has been in the game a great many years, coming through the ranks at Precise on their short term lending team, and then taking up the position at MT Finance last year. With the coronavirus still the hot topic of conversation I wanted to get Gareth’s views on how lenders were coping, the use of technology an...

In this episode, Sam interviews the delightful Matylda Nowak, owner of lettings agent and property manager Kings Accomodation, and also one of the most knowledgeable people around when it comes to legislation surrounding the lettings industry. We discuss the difficulties landlords and the lettings industry as a whole faces in the coming months, as well as what changes she has had to implement in h...

In this episode, Sam is interviewed by the one and only Brendan Quinn, the man behind the Central London Property Network, one of the countries longest running property networking events, on the subject of how the CoronaVirus is likely to effect the mortgage, lending and banking market. We dive into the effect on interest rates, transaction levels and even valuer availability and its effect on the...