Episodes
Sept. 25, 2014
TPP080: Property investment tips and advice
This week we’re celebrating the launch of our new podcast – The Property Investment Tips Podcast – by sharing some of the favourite pieces of advice that have been shared by our team of bloggers on The Property Hub. The new p...
Sept. 18, 2014
TPP079: I’m an accidental landlord…get me out of here!
We’ve spent the last 78 weeks talking about intentional property investment, but it doesn’t start out that way for lots of people: it’s very common to become an “accidental landlord”, and that often becomes a springboard into...
Sept. 11, 2014
TPP078: Should you buy property in Scotland?
With the vote on Scottish independence a week away, we thought this would be an excellent time to ask: should you buy property in Scotland? As well as speculating about the impact of the independence vote, we also covered: Th...
Sept. 4, 2014
TPP077: Our favourite property websites
This week we wanted, on the basis of a listener request, to share our favourite property websites. Covering news, research and general entertainment, these are the sites that appear in our browser history more than any others...
Aug. 28, 2014
TPP076: How to flip a property
This week we’re talking about buying to sell – why would you flip a property, and how do you make sure you avoid the risks and secure a good profit? We got help in putting this episode together from Susannah Cole from The Goo...
Aug. 21, 2014
TPP075: Property Investment Room 101
This week, no two ways about it: we had a bit of a moan. Yes, we each picked three items to go into our personal Property Room 101 – an idea we shamelessly “borrowed” from Pete Matthew, who did his own Room 101 on the Meaning...
Aug. 14, 2014
TPP074: Seven ways to stay on top of the property market
The property market is moving fast, and you can’t rely on the newspapers to give you an accurate picture of what’s happening – or to give you the level of detail you need about what’s happening in your local market. So this w...
Aug. 7, 2014
TPP073: How to get the best out of your letting agent
This week we’re celebrating the official launch of Yellow Lettings! So what better time, we thought, to do a whole episode about getting the best from your letting agent. We’ve said before that a good agent can make your prop...
July 31, 2014
TPP072: Areas Where We Wouldn’t Invest
This week we risked offending pretty much everyone by running through a list of places in the UK where we wouldn’t invest. Our intention wasn’t to slag anywhere off, but to illustrate what does make a good investment by calli...
July 24, 2014
TPP071: Long term property predictions
This week we laid ourselves open to looking very daft indeed by making some long-term property predictions based on the 18-year property cycle that we introduced in Episode 69. The beauty of the cycle is that while no two cyc...
July 17, 2014
TPP070: Property Tech and Systems
Property tech and systems: could there be two topics we love more? On this week’s episode we discussed some must-use systems in your property business, including: Systemising your tenant find process if you self-manage Mainta...
July 10, 2014
TPP069: The 18 Year Property Cycle
This might just be one of the all-time “must listen” episodes of The Property Podcast. Why? Because we dived into a model which explains almost everything we’ve been talking about for the last 16 months – and which you can us...
July 3, 2014
TPP068: LHA tenants: Deal or No Deal?
Some landlords rent exclusively to tenants who are receiving housing benefit – others would never dream of going anywhere near that market. So who’s got it right? We received a voicemail from a listener this week about this v...
June 26, 2014
TPP067: 8 things we’ve learnt from The Property Hub
The Property Hub is six months old! To mark its half-birthday – and to celebrate having brought 1,000 members into the fold so far – we thought we’d share some things that the experience has taught us so far. The idea isn’t t...
June 19, 2014
TPP066: An introduction to Lease Options
We’ve never done a lease option, but they get talked about a lot and some people have had big success with them – so we thought we should dedicate an episode to explaining the basics. As the name implies, it involves taking a...
June 12, 2014
TPP065: Financial lessons you should have been taught at school
Back to school this week, as we talked about financial lessons we’d been taught in the classroom. We were inspired by this Daily Telegraph article by Martin Lewis, the Money Saving Expert, and talked about some of his ideas w...
June 5, 2014
TPP064: Mortgages Tips, tricks and things you need to know
Mortgages are probably the area that get asked about the most in The Property Hub – and understandably so, because it’s such an important part of property investment. We’re famously bullish about leverage, and there’s a lot t...
May 29, 2014
TPP063: Valuing your time
This week we were examining a simple question that has big implications: what is your time worth? As investors we spend a lot of time obsessing about how much money we can afford to put into a deal, but we neglect the only tr...
May 22, 2014
TPP062: Seven property investment books you should read
We love books, we love property…so can you even imagine how much we love property books? We had a hard time narrowing it down to seven recommendations for this week’s episode – but narrow we did, and here’s what we ended up w...
May 15, 2014
TPP061: Flats vs Houses – which is the best investment?
It seems that people who invest in houses often recoil in horror at the idea of buying a flat – and vice versa. This week we waded into the fray – inspired by a topic in The Property Hub – with some conciliatory noises by lay...
May 8, 2014
TPP060: Can the property super bubble be stopped?
Apparently in London, talking about a property bubble is no longer enough…now, it’s a super-bubble! Media hype aside, in this episode we ran through some ideas for how to calm London’s runaway housing market. As the starting ...
May 1, 2014
TPP059: Are holiday lets a good investment?
This week we were off on holiday – or rather, we were examining whether property lets are a good investment. We didn’t get into actually researching buying abroad (we covered that in Episode 34), because holiday lets can be i...
April 24, 2014
TPP058: Does property value really double every ten years?
You’ll have heard people say that property doubles in price every 10 years – but is it true? This week we dug into the data to get to a real answer, and explored what it means for us as investors. We covered: The different da...
April 17, 2014
TPP057: Will pension reforms cause a property boom in 2015?
At the end of this recording, we remarked how the “boring” episodes are often our favourites – including inflation, interest rates, and now pension reform. Pension reform might sound like a dull subject, but it could have a h...