Practical Property Talk

This week we was lucky enough to be joined by Ray Catchpole of Catchpole stays and Lettings. Ray has been active in the industry for many years now and has a real interesting story of the importance of remaining consistent and preserving to achieve the end goal no matter what property throws at you.

From accidential landlords and friends and family telling them not to get into property Ray has now got a successful SA Management business in Essex. After the stresses and strains of a commercial to Residential deal that didn't quite pan out as some projects dont Ray sold off some properties and is now re-building the portfolio to allow him and his wife to travel more and enjoy life. Which right from the start was the goal its just property sometimes throws you a few curve balls..

Thanks for taking time out to catch up Ray we will do that lunch soon

Enjoy the

This week we have gone and put ourselves out and around a lot of people and really seen the benefits of consistently turning up.

Our weekly walk has lead to the co sourcing of two deals with a good contact of ours and lead us to a few very good potential meetings with new clients.

Consistency is key to property…

Until next week, keep showing up

Success comes from starting..... What a great attitude and an approach I find so suitable to property.

This week we have Toyin of Icon Range join us and talk us how they jumped straight into property after watching Homes under the hammer... and deciding property was the route for her and their family.

Over the 13 years after buying a property via an auction journey Toyin explains how each day is a lesson and that when you learn to utilize the power of leverage the ability unlock more opportunities than ever imaginable begin to start.

Most people I meant starting out in property let the emotion of wanting a property deal take over but with experience Toyin has learnt to take that emotion out of the property deal and gain the ability to be able to walk away from deals because the numbers dont work for you, more often than not the deal comes back to you.

A great conversation and I hope you enjoy.

Until next week.

I was pleased this week to be joined by David Bailey, one of the founders of the SEPDC group I am lucky enough to be a part of. Dave talks us this week through how he has gone from being a landscape architect working on projects such as the London Olympics 2012 to working on using a clear strategy to achieve his long term goals from property. David's portfolio currently includes high end HMO's and land development opportunities in the Chelmsford, Essex area BUT this story comes with a twist that initially David was totally against HMO's!!!!

What an interesting insight from a local developer on his progression and how he has established his company with, lettings, land and developments. But for David who gets a ''kick'' out of looking for the opportunities that require some creativity to make a deal happen like the back land sites or the utilisation of permitted development rights.

Hope you enjoy the listen and the takeaway for me is that property is a game that 'sometimes you love it, and sometimes you hate it''

Until next time thanks for joining us David.

Wow... what a week we have had... taking stock on what was achieved in January. Something in the past we havent done enough of. But in 2025 we have new systems and structures in place to assist in achieving our yearly goals. New weekly meet ups between Myself and Joe to ensure we are both alined with the direction we going in

The biggest take away from this week was the success of our monthly meet up, so good to see many familiar faces and some new faces. Always give me a little kick to sit down and have a fresh and friendly property chat with our group.

Thanks again to all those that come along and support the event.

This week, we are pleased to be joined by Simon Taylor. Who had turned o the world of property after suffering major health issues of which gave Simon the 'the shake up' to do something and be in control of this outcome for him and his family.

While succeeding in property, covid led Simon to have to stay in doors due to the covid lockdown rules giving him more time to focus on diversifying his investments and deep dive into the world of crypto.

Focusing on using his strengths from his engineering background and putting all his energy on working out what was going wrong with some of his investments Simon managed to write his own blueprint on how to invest in crypto and now focuses his time on this.

Some of the lessons and points Simon discusses can be easily related to all types of investments and especially the world of property.

- Consistency

- Be Patient

- Focus on your strengths

- The numbers dont lie

- Get good at one strategy

- Keep note of what went wrong previously and adjust

A great chat and good to see the world of property from another side of investing.

You can find out more about simon at

https://linktr.ee/Simon.JP.Taylor

Hope you enjoy the listen.

Back again... the weeks In Januaryu are flying by.. and we started the week in the north east of the country with our business partner and architect Colin viewing and then offerin on some off market commercial to residential properties..

After agreeing to buy 8 properties a few years back we have now sourced on this option agreement to another investor.

Agreed terms with a vendor on an assisted sale property,

And agreed to take on a new member of staff to assist the growth of the company

WHAT A WEEK.

This week I catch up with a previous partner I invested with four years ago… great to see Mark still pushing forward with his property company.

Mark lets us into why the importance of a good power team has helped push his business forward and how he was with such a good team able to turn a property purchase round in just 13 days.

The topic of the financial juggling and pressures of the property world again come up… but mark drops the point that it doesn’t get easier we just get better.

Enjoy and thanks to Mark for taking time out to speak to us

Weekly recap on what’s been a strong positive week.

Utilising the calendar to assist with informing the team of what going on.

Positive meetings had with the team and helping all understand the new direction for 2025…

Welcome Kirsty Darkins on this weeks chat. For one reason or another I keep overthinking and overlooking commercial property… although they are the least work load in our portfolio…

Listen to Kirsty explain how and why she will continue to invest in the high street as many say the high street is dying, it understanding one strategy and one strategy well works.

We talk over how saying no to what doesn’t aim you to your goals is key to finding the right strategy and happiness in property and life…

Hope you enjoy the chat