Failure to make a profit is a stepping stone to success A friend of mine worked in the city of London many years ago. He’s told me plenty of stories about his time as a stock trader, but I recall ...

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Avoid the disaster of buying the wrong property According to an October 2016 survey published by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS), the UK is facing a ‘critical rental shortage’. Its report reads like a promotion for investment property, ...

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Where are London property prices heading now? In the UK, property investment is seen as the preferred route to wealth by most people. Even those who aren’t investing (home buyers) gauge their wealth by how much their house has increased ...

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Four property investment strategies for difficult markets I met a young couple a week or so ago who own a couple of investment properties. It was a chance meeting. I had coffee, and they noticed that I was reading an article about ...

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Tips to ensure your property investment is a success Last week, a new property investor called us in a pretty anxious state. He was about to buy his first rental property but was getting cold feet. It is a natural ...

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Negative cash flow as an investment strategy While I’m firmly in the school of property investors who invest for long-term cash flow and not appreciation, many professional investors purposely invest in properties with negative cash flow. They see this as ...

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Property investment strategies for flexibility It’s probably not realistic that any buy-to-let property investment will be cash flow positive 100% of the time. As I discussed in my last post, three fundamental tactics to prepare for negative cash flow on buy-to-let ...

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