Renting HMOs Sussed by the HMO Landlady is the book reviewed in the February 2013 edition of Your Property Network. Published in the second half of last year, this book is a concise, up-to-date guide of what running a House of Multiple Occupation (HMO) is really like. Continue reading
Hustle Your Way To Property Success shares Paul Ribbons’ story of how he became a successful property trader, buying and selling property for profit and how you can do the same. Continue reading
House Share Hero, by Steve Julien, follows the anything but ordinary life of an HMO landlord. It reveals how, over the last decade or so, Steve has built up a substantial portfolio of house shares, left the rat race and now looks after over eighty tenants — yet only works a few hours a week. Continue reading
Trump: The Art of the Deal looks into the mind of one of the world’s greatest real estate deal makers, Donald Trump. Continue reading
The Rascal’s Guide to Real Estate: How to Make Big Profits from Property and Avoid the Traps! by Olly Newland, an outspoken professional property investor based in New Zealand who “aims his flame thrower at real estate agents, bankers, lawyers, financial planners, tenants of every kind, property syndicate promoters — not to mention the many unscrupulous con-artists he’s come across” during his 40 year career in property. Continue reading
The Complete Guide to Property Development for the Small Investor: How to Identify the Best Opportunities in a Volatile Property Market by Catherine Dawson. The third edition, published in 2009, importantly takes into account changes in the property development market, post credit-crunch. Continue reading
So many prospective investors talk to me about how to buy great property. Houses or flats? Prices? How to finance? To refurbish? We talk for hours about deals. Deals, deals, deals. They hardly ask me about how to find great … Continue reading
Make Cash in a Property Market Crash is the second book by Progressive Property’s Rob Moore and Mark Homer. Written in 2008–at a time when fear was (and still is, at time of writing) pervading the national property market following the credit crunch–the book describes why now is a golden opportunity for investment, not likely to be repeated within our lifetime, and exactly how to take advantage from the current situation and profit from it. Continue reading
The 44 Most Closely Guarded Property Secrets , written by Rob Moore and Mark Homer of Progressive Property, lays out the mindset needed for success in property and throws down the gauntlet to its readers to get started without further delay. It’s written in a very conversational style and is an easy, yet engaging read. By the end of the book, you’ll feel like you’re best mates with the authors (more on this later). Whilst I’d struggle to describe the information contained within as “closely guarded secrets”, I suppose it makes little difference how you get started — just as long as you do get started. This book will help you with that. Continue reading