This Week In Property Podcast

In today's show, Richard sits down with fellow PMW colleague, and previous podcast guest, Sean McIntyre to open up the digital mailbag and answer questions from the listeners. In a wide-ranging conversation, they tackle questions from around the country, tackling the subjects of property and business...

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• The raw truth and hardships of taking on a property journey...
• The different ways that someone can make the jump from their career into property investment or property trading...
• Forecasts and opinions about Brexit and UK interest rates...
• Challenging trades people, collapsing deals, and the scourge of broken boilers...
• The real fears and blocks faced in business, and the ways to get past them...

In today's show, Richard sits down with a small group of people who have attended the very latest Property Protege Intensive event with PMW. Janet Downing, Kerry Cattell, Simon Bourke, Martin Casserly, and David Degnan have sat down only a couple of days after the intense rollercoaster that is Property Protege...

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• The childhood experiences that are the fires lit underneath the desire for more from life...
• Discussing the fun, the challenges, the comfort stretches, the information, and the wealth of knowledges delivered in Protege...
• The plans and strategies for moving forward, and how some are already off and running after only a couple of days...
• Discussing the personal WHYs of wanting to play in the game of property...

In today's show, Richard gets to chat to not 1 but 3 fabulous guests, and the theme of the chat is property in Ireland. Brian Farrell, Fran Gaffney, and Gary Logue, chat about the country and its culture around land and property, and dig into a thousand fascinating little topics that will inform and entertain listeners...

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• The bigger picture: the culture, the Tiger Economy, The Crash, and looking ahead...
• Negative Equity: the startling statistics and how it affects the strategies of deal structuring...
• How to get around your obstacle of not having enough time to cover all the tasks of building your property business...
• How to get around your obstacle of not having your own money to invest in deals...
• The integrity and ethics of working properly with people, and ideas for longer terms and building legacies...
• How the passion and interest in your property business will drive you farther and quicker, but how patience is also essential...

In today's show, Richard chats to a property expert in the big smoke of London. Leslie Asante-Ntoni has been involved in property in the city and seen lots of changes in certain Boroughs of the city. And he shares that knowledge, those opinions, and those deals with the listeners. He also invests in another English city, and we discuss the details there too. But behind his business, his success, and his drive, is a powerful life changing incident from his youth...

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• The fork in the road moment that led Leslie to choose the path that he's currently on...
• Knowing your area, your market, and your customer...
• How to invest and run projects at a distance...
• Family negotiations and the power of a promised kitchen...

In today's show, we get to go behind the scenes at the early launch phase of an interesting new system created to help First Time Buyers get onto the property market. Richard sits down with an interesting young gentlemen called Osei, to learn all about his venture called Huuti...

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• Osei is the classic entrepreneurial tale of 'scratching your own itch'...
• The fascinating world of FinTech and how Financial and Technology products can help to solve offline problems...
• Helping someone understand their finances, credit score, and mortgage profiling...
• Beta testing, VC funding, mentors, and the Pursuit of Happiness...

In today's show, Richard sits down with an amazing, and hilarious, father and daughter team: Gordon and Dani Spence. Although heavily involved in the property world, it's their other successful family business that Richard delves into. And it's a subject that can help many property professionals out there protect their portfolios and wealth for their partners, for their children, and for future generations...

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• Cake in a Death Cafe...
• Have you REALLY protected and secured your important portfolio...
• The 2 single most important documents you should have in place as insurance to protect your property business...
• The most challenging cases that Gordon has dealt with, technically and emotionally...
• Why Gordon and Dani are passionate and fulfilled with the help they give others...

In today's show, Richard hits another spot in the UK to chat about all things property. This time it's the Kingdom of Fife in Scotland, and property investor and business owner Jay Turner is the local expert sharing his views and insights from the area...

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• Hear how Fife is producing some of the cheapest deals and the biggest returns for investors from all over...
• Jay's successful lettings empire is building upwards and outwards...
• What kind of person should be a letting agent, and what kind shouldn't...
• Facing challenges and setbacks with business partners and broken deals...
• How Jay's entrepreneurial mind has captured a 3-point-plan to combine multiple successful areas in property...
• Rent-to-rent, PRT, COC: Jay cracks all the jargon and offers his opinions to help others trying to get into property...

Richard sits down with Wealth Manager Stuart Duffin to chat about all things wealth related. Property is an incredible investment tool, but it's just one tool, and one part of your overall wealth picture...

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• Are you protecting your portfolio properly...
• Why you should empty out that Cash ISA immediately...
• What are the nuts and bolts of Diversification...
• Pensions Freedom and how you must ensure you've got the right product these days...
• Risk adversity, phases of life, and planning for growth, for security, and for your family...

In today's show, Richard sits down with Paul McFadden to discuss a skill used in every area of your property business: Negotiation. From buyers, to sellers, to agents, to builders, and everyone in between, you have to communicate and negotiate to find success...

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• It's not just money that we negotiate on...
• Why is negotiation such a bad word...
• Don't negotiate; just have a conversation...
• The right mindset for dealing with a motivated seller....
• The 10 Golden Rules of Negotiation...
• Helping people to make their own decision...
• Property deals: it's never really about the money...

In today's show, Richard sits down with Laura Chapman from Chapmans Property Lettings & Management. They discuss everything lettings related from the new PRT legislation, to Code of Conduct changes, to the relationships that the agent has with both landlord and tenant. Laura offers a ton of insights for listeners to learn from, and to help ensure the success of your property portfolio...

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• Private Residential Tenancy, and how we need to understand and adapt to it...
• Code of Conduct and how the best agents will work to it and deliver the best service...
• The key relationships that the letting agent has with landlord and tenant alike...
• The property market: local, regional, and national...