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How the surge of tenanted properties for sale is a massive opportunity for investors

11.09.2023 By: John Penquet

How the surge of tenanted properties for sale is a massive opportunity for investors

The UK housing market has been experiencing a remarkable recovery since the pandemic, with house prices reaching record highs and demand outstripping supply. However, not all segments of the market are performing equally, and some factors may pose a challenge for the future.

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HARVESTING PROPERTY INVESTMENT PROFIT WHEN INTEREST RATES ARE HIGH

27.07.2023 By: John Penquet

It’s never been easier to make profit from property investing!

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How You Can Use AI in Your Property Business

01.06.2023 By: John Penquet

In my early days of investing, I was frustrated by the lack of information about demand for property.

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6 Steps to Boost Your Property Investments and Achieve More for Less

04.05.2023 By: John Penquet

Get More For Less By Capturing Opportunity Gaps

Most of our industry works hard to deliver more. More rooms to rent, more properties to buy and more enjoyment from higher living standards. You, and people like you are creating more all of the time.
Over the past year, the property market has shifted across the UK, with new opportunity areas emerging all over the nation. At the same time, many areas, and strategies in these areas have seen a contraction of opportunity.
This is not a new phenomenon: our industry is adept at finding new ways to grow and expand services, you and the industry has the ability to adapt in an agile way that only entrepreneurs seem to know.

The current market is at another of these moments, and your business has a choice – to understand and adapt, or expend huge efforts to hold a current position or strategy....

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Are You Ready For Developing Your Property Business?

02.11.2022 By: John Penquet

Property Market Insights- October 2022

Developing properties can be a very rewarding and profitable experience. The process of taking buildings or land and releasing value through creativity is an experience which is full of ups and downs. The thing is, you can manage and measure those ups and downs by making sure the due diligence element of your plans is enhanced with facts and data.
A lot of people talk about due diligence and data as if it is like adding sugar to a coffee. It is just added if you like it, but not strictly necessary.

I think of data and due diligence as the coffee beans – if you don’t have them you don’t have coffee to drink. They’re essential.

Let me try to explain. Let’s assume you are creating apartments from a commercial premises. At the time of writing this, the market has been hit by a jump in mortgage...

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How To Find The Best Areas For No Money Left In Properties Near You

20.09.2022 By: John Penquet

Property Market Insights- September 2022

In the past, many of us learned that we could recycle most of our money when buying property by:
1. Negotiating money off the purchase price of properties and then
2. Adding value through refurbishment to increase the property’s end value of GDV.
This combination of buying at a discount and adding value worked very well for many investors.
The trouble today is that a lot of investors are now finding it harder to get that first part – a discount off the asking price for a property.

This new issue has caused many, many investors to stall and stop. If you can’t get money off, the deal won’t stack, right? Well, in today’s market the answer is categorically no. The way we used t...

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The Shifting Sands of Property Demand and The Opportunity For You

20.08.2022 By: John Penquet

Property Market Insights - August 2022
These past few months we’ve seen a lot of change in our industry. A lot of this change is driven by recent events such as Covid lockdowns, war in Ukraine and the fuel crisis. The relationships between these events and the industry can be measured and modelled.
There is also underlying influence on the industry which dates from before 2020 but was accelerated by the pandem...

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Using Market Data to Increase Financial Freedom

07.07.2022 By: John Penquet

Property Market Insights - July 2022
In a stagnant or moderate growth market like we have had for the past decade, it has been necessary to negotiate money off deals in order to get a healthier amount of equity in a deal. This remains a preoccupation of many investors in the industry and a cause of significant stress. Why?
Over the past 18 months everything has changed, suddenly. The new era of property investing is sign...

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Are You Paying Too Much For Property?

21.04.2022 By: John Penquet

Property Market Insights - April 2022
A question that crops up more and more nowadays is am I paying too much for a property deal. Since the middle of 2020, property prices nationally have begun to creep upwards at a rate not seen since pre-2008.
For property investors, this has severely impacted many of our strategies, especially if we are looking to:
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Here we outline how you canadd the senders email address to your safe sender list or ‘whitelist’for the most common email providers.

Outlook Users

Open the email from the sender you would like to add to the safelist. Click on the "Junk" link next to the delete button in the top left corner. Click on “Never Block Sender" in the drop-down options below the ‘Junk’ icon. Their email message will be automatically added to your Outlook safe senders list.

Outlook (Web Version) Users

Once logged in, click on the cog in the top right-hand side of your inbox. Click on “Safe Senders” under the “Mail” tab. Open the email from the sender you would like to add to the safelist. Enter the email address of the sender and click the plus sign. Your sender will be automatically added to your Outlook safe senders list.

Apple Mail

Open the email from the sender you would like to add to the safelist. Click on the sender’s email address at the top of the email. A list of options will appear on a drop down. Click on “Add to Address Book” Your sender will be automatically added to your Apple Mail safe senders list.

Gmail® Users

Open the email from the sender you would like to add to the safelist. Click on the arrow next to an email icon on the far right. Select “Add To Contacts”. You will see the text “Added *Email Address* to contacts.” Appear at the top of the screen, meaning your new contact has been added to your Gmail Safe senders list.

Via an iPhone/iPad

Open the email from the sender you would like to add to the safelist. Tap the sender's name in the “From” line. On the next screen, tap “Create New Contact”. Add the details of the email sender (the email will be populated otherwise you will need to add the sender’s other details, name, address etc) Tap “Done”.

Via an Android Phone

Tap to open the email from the sender you would like to add to the safelist. Tap the icon next to the email address on the left-hand side. Tap “Create contact”. Add the details of the email sender (the email will be populated otherwise you will need to add the sender’s other details, name, address etc). Tap “save”.