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#156Building a UK property portfolio as an expat is not easy. Firstly there’s the distance… And the further you are from the UK the harder it is. Not only does it take a lot longer to get back to the UK, but there’s the added complication of time differences. And then there’s the lack of time available to work on building a portfolio. And finding trustworthy UK property partners to work with is potentially even more challenging. Especially since there are so many sharks ou...
#154Have you considered using a home stager to market a property?Is it worth paying for a stager? What’s the difference between a home stager and an interior designer? Do you know if there’s a difference is between staging a property to rent versus staging to sell?If you’ve spent time thinking about any of these questions, then this episode is for you.Emma Cook helps people to market their properties for sale or let to maximise their returns via her Home Staging company...
#153Adopting a new UK property strategy is no walk in the park because you need to understand and control as many of the variables you can identify as possible.This is even more important if you’re using investor finance, because you need to have a plan A, Plan B and Plan C for giving your investors the return OF their money and ON their money. In this episode, we talk you through the due diligence we undertook when looking into adopting a new business model: Aparthotels.Our model model ...
#152How do you go about carrying out due diligence on a new UK Property business model? How can you make sure you’re not believing the hype? Do you presume that something must work because it’s what everyone else seems to be doing? This episode (the 3rd of 4) will hopefully get you thinking about some of these things as we continue our story of why we didn’t add any properties to our portfolio in 2023.The first reason, which we covered last week in #151 was because I found myse...
#151How do you keep on top of your UK Credit Rating?Do you even know what your credit rating is? Do you know what factors affect your score? This episode serves as a warning as to what can go wrong if you’re not very careful, even if you’re the kind of person like me that likes to pay their credit card debt at the end of each and every month.Keep listening to the end to pick up tips and tricks for how to navigate the minefield of your UK credit file.Topics discussed during the episo...
#150Some of the most useful content according to people who get in touch with us is when we tell the parts of our story that don’t go well, And let’s face it, we learn more from what goes wrong than what goes right. So over the next few episodes we’ll be covering the reasons why we didn’t buy any property in 2023.This episode discusses:· Naivety in financial decisions· Initial experiences with stock market investments· ...
#149Do you invest in stocks and shares? Do you invest in property? Maybe you invest in both? If you take two suitcases to the check in counter at the airport, one marked property and one stocks and shares and they tell you that you can only put one on the plane, which one do you choose? Have you ever wondered, like I have why people choose stocks and shares over property? In this episode, Grant Williams, a leading financial content producer and a man with more than 35 years’ experience of glo...
#148How do you deal with setbacks in your property story? Lots of people talk about how to win, but maybe the real lessons to be found in life and property are about how to deal with, and come back from disappointment. And since we all have setbacks in our property stories from time to time, it often helps to be inspired by those who get up again after getting knocked down. So if you’re looking for inspiration about willpower, determination and resilience, then this is the epis...
#147How long does it take you to analyse a deal on Right Move? Do you find yourself looking at rubbish bins to try and work out the number of a property so that you can then go and check out the EPC and do other due diligence to work out if a deal really is a deal? If your plan is to turn it into an HMO, have you found it as frustrating as I have, squinting at a map trying to work out if the house you’re looking at lies inside or outside an Article 4 area. Guillaume Black was so fed...
#146Is now a good time to buy UK property? Do you wish you had a crystal ball to see six months into the future? How will the housing market look in the second half of 2024? When analysts comment on the state of the market, they look to house price indexes from the The UK House Price or Nationwide or Halifax as they try to predict future trends.But these indexes have a time lag given that the the length of time it takes on the open market for a home to go from 'sold subject to contract' ...
#145Do you regularly visit your investment area? How well do you know your location? Who are your eyes and ears in those places? How do you know if you can trust them? How often do you or could you visit your patch? Or are you confident enough to build a portfolio from the other side of the world with no friends or family to help you in the part of the UK you’ve identified as the one to get you to where you need to go?These are the types of questions this episode sets...
#144I’m in Derby. It’s the final day of my UK Property Tour. Today, I have to take the hire car back to Nottingham and then the train south to London. I also have two final meetings I’ve arranged. One with a second sourcer, who we’ll call Sourcer 2 and another with an HMO interior design team.But that’s not what’s at the front of my mind on this mid-February morning in 2024 as I wake up in the guesthouse I’ve been staying in for the last four nights.No, I want to know if the tw...
#14313 has always been mine and my wife's lucky number.On our one and only visit to a casino in Macau we once won two consecutive games of roulette picking, you guessed it the number 13.So will this deal that we’ve been offered in Derby be our lucky 13th addition to our portfolio on this, the 13th consecutive daily episode in our mini-season documenting my UK Property Tour?Download and listen to find out!We typically work with time poor professionals get a good return on their money by invest...
#142Day 11...My UK property tour and this mini-season of diary style podcasts is drawing to a close now.I'm in Derby meeting anyone and everyone who can help us find a 3 bed house to convert to a 6 bed all ensuite HMO It doesn’t look like I’m going to return to Hong Kong with an HMO in my back pocket.But the aim is to get as close as I can. To do that I have a few meetings lined up over the next few days.Including with sourcers.Download and listen to find out more!We typically wor...
#141In preparation for my UK Property Tour, I used the filters on Spare Room to build up an XL database of HMO rooms that were achieving the highest rates. I excluded everything except rooms with en-suites and bills. My spreadsheet included columns for: · location· rents· amenities,· the dates the adverts were listed· how long the adverts had been up for · ...
#140This is Day 9 of our mini-season of daily pods documenting my UK Property Tour.If you trust someone just because they’re in the public domain and they seem nice, you’re putting yourself at risk.On the other hand, if your default position is to trust no one, you won’t get anywhere. So what’s the answer… Well there’s no magic formula, so I would suggest that you start small. Don’t go all in. Test them out. See if they do what they said they’ll do. See how they communicate. Se...
#139 Day 8 of my UK Property Tour. Today is Saturday and I find myself on the M6 heading north to Blackpool at 9 o’clock in the morning to talk to a bungalow fliiper!Yesterday, I coined a new Property Term, called Some Money In. It’s the opposite of All Money Out and it refers to the idea that most of us can expect to have to leave some money in a deal when buying 3 bed houses to convert to 6 bed HMOS. One way to account for money left in is to flip prope...
#138Have you heard people talking about all money out deals?Or money in money out deals?Others call them unicorn deals. In my experience, the people who talk most about them are usually selling a course. Or a deal. I’m not saying they don’t happen and maybe you’ve achieved it yourself. But personally, I think you’d be better off saving your energy for working out how to mitigate for the money that will inevitably get left in most deals.And that is one of the reasons ...
#137This is the seventh diary entry for my first ever UK property Tour.I'm in the UK for two weeks, checking up on our two SA houses and researching our new investment area.In this episode, I meet the designer and managing agent of our new SA in Leyland ahead of its launch the following week.i also take a walk around the neighbourhood to try to understand the property from a guest's perspective.Leave an honest review of Expat Property StoryJoin our Mailing List to join our WhatsApp grou...
#136My UK Property Tour continues!Today’s diary entry starts in Nottingham, continues in Derby, returns to Nottingham to pick up a hire car.I then head up the M1 and M6 to a networking meeting in Manchester before finally getting to bed well after midnight in our second SA property in Leyland, Lancashire just hours after the refurb / staging has finished.This is the 6th episode of 14 daily episodes documenting the trials, tribulations and hopefully triumphs of my trip to the UK to conce...
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