Investor With 900 Houses Reveals Buy-To-Let Secrets

How do you become the UK’s Buy-To-Let King?
“We did it,” says Fergus ‘900 houses’ Wilson, “by avoiding buying flats … Poor people live in flats … and they live in flats because they can’t afford a house.”
These and other nuggets of wisdom can be absorbed over at the Renegade Economist website in a priceless exchange [...]

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Fancy A Home Game At Highbury?

First off, apologies for that headline … I have no excuse aside from the fact that it was marginally better than “Home-buyers will be singing in the terraces” (see what I did there … terra … oh forget it).

If association football is not your thing, look away now because we’re talking here, my friends, about [...]

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Flat Out: Jane’s Diary of a First-Time Buyer #12

The DIY continues apace and am starting to worry I may be the noisiest flat owner on the South Coast …
I have met a few of my neighbours who had seen the TV programme (embarrassing) and everyone seems really nice. Which is a relief. Just to be safe, I dropped chocolates [...]

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Listen To Our What Makes A Home? Radio Ads!

FindaProperty.com goes on air and on the road this week with our ‘What makes a home?’ advertising campaign.
Below are the radio ads featuring James and Nina. Enjoy!
Rosie and Paul, David and Fiona, Michael and Sally

Amity, James, Rosie and Paul

James

Nina

Our ‘What makes a home?’ print ads will continue to run across the Metro, London Lite, [...]

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Flat Out: Jane’s Diary of a First-Time Buyer #11

I’ve had the flat for almost six weeks now…where has the time gone? I know where…on DIY!
Completion day was nerve wracking. I was pacing the room waiting for the call, keeping everything crossed that there wasn’t going to be an unforeseen hiccup with the money but I eventually heard from my solicitor and agent (who mimicked [...]

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Flat Out: Jane’s Diary of a First-Time Buyer #10

As luck would have it, I won’t be boarding a flight to the South of France and trying to complete on the property at the same time, as I have exchanged and complete tomorrow!
I am going through waves of extreme excitement, blind panic and slight nausea at the thought of the money I don’t have [...]

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The Honeymoon Househunters: Sam & Ruth’s Search For A Home #2

I can say with total certainty that, even when taking cost out of the equation, buying a house with another person is very different to any everyday purchase.
I’m always delighted to confirm that Ruth’s dress, shoes and handbag combo is quite simply stunning and a bargain at twice the price – whilst really pondering whether [...]

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The Honeymoon Househunters: Sam & Ruth’s Search For A Home

So it’s a normal next step; get married then settle into a new home. Once the stress of organising the big day’s done, it’s the natural expectation that all’s left is post-marital, worry-free bliss in a wonderful new home.
Not a chance! Stress-free house hunting that is (I’m happily married!).

My wife and I have only recently [...]

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Sssshh: ‘Secret Sellers’ Enter The Housing Market

Here at Winging It we like to know what’s going on in the housing market, so our feathery ears pricked up (no idea if this is ornithologically accurate…) when we heard of an interesting new trend: the rise of the ’secret seller’.
Stacks Property Search tell us that a lot of estate agents are being approached [...]

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