About the show
The Business of Property follows the journey of two entrepreneurs working in the property world.
Stuart is a property investor with a focus on HMOs, mostly for the student market. He prefers a hands-off approach with most of his investment properties being remote.
Simon has a small portfolio of vanilla buy-to-let properties that he mostly self-manages. To make his property management easier he created Property and Tenant Manager.
Simon and Stuart, along with guests, discuss the ups and downs they're experiencing in their property businesses. Along the way they share property news, business tips and anything else that happens to crop up their weekly chats.
Popular episodes include:
- Getting started in property - the first in a mini series discussing topics to consider when starting in property investment.
- Property investment terms - great if you're just getting started in property and need some help understanding the common jargon.
- Property strategy terms - another jargon busting episode that's great if you're early in your property journey or considering changing your property strategy.
- Less property but relevant to everyone is a discussion on time management.
- Last but not least are a couple of episodes that talk about angel investing and property finance more widely.
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Episodes
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Episode 113: Are we mad to be landlords in 2022?
January 26th, 2022 | 22 mins 14 secs
Simon and Stuart discuss some of the challenges facing landlords in the future and whether they should be putting property investors off in 2022.
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Episode 112: We're in The Times, but these are still taxing times...
January 19th, 2022 | 29 mins 10 secs
Stuart and Simon are talking about property yield, inspired by a recent article in The Times. Plus a chat on tax returns and how they approach their own.
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Episode 111: If we started again, what would we change?
January 12th, 2022 | 27 mins 46 secs
Simon and Stuart chat about what they might have done differently in their property investment careers and how things could have turned out differently.
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Episode 110: 2021 was fairly busy!
January 5th, 2022 | 23 mins
Stuart and Simon realise that quite a lot has happenned in 2021. This weeks chat covers a few of the things that have stood out for them.
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Episode 109: Analysing a prospective property deal
December 29th, 2021 | 29 mins 44 secs
Simon presents an interesting property with development potential for Stuart to analyse further.
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Episode 108: Property business update - R2R, sales and lessons
December 22nd, 2021 | 21 mins 11 secs
Stuart and Simon chat through an update on recent changes and progress in Stuart's property business. Covering rent to rent, assorted sales, various woes and lessons learned along the way.
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Episode 107: How are rising house prices affecting our investment plans?
December 15th, 2021 | 25 mins 12 secs
Simon and Stuart talk about direct to vendor (no agent) buying and some considerations in getting the process started; plus thoughts on investing with rapidly increasing property prices.
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Episode 106: House building and non-traditional exchanges
December 8th, 2021 | 24 mins 57 secs
This week is a varied chat with Stuart and Simon exploring some house building stats, then discussing a fairly unusual proposal when selling a flat.
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Episode 105: Our alternative investments plus angel investment walkthrough
December 1st, 2021 | 24 mins 54 secs
This week Simon and Stuart are chatting about their alternative (non-property) investments. Although a little property investment might be covered too!
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Episode 104: To fix, or not to fix?
November 24th, 2021 | 27 mins 20 secs
Stuart and Simon are talking mortgages - with a real life scenario and three mortgage options on the table, what do you need to consider to make a choice?
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Episode 103: Open Banking and the death of spreadsheets
November 17th, 2021 | 21 mins 37 secs
Simon and Stuart explore what Open Banking is and how it can help landlords, including looking into the future of Making Tax Digital.
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Episode 102: Cash (flow) is king
November 10th, 2021 | 24 mins 42 secs
Stuart and Simon are talking cash flow and explaining how they manage (or not) cash flow in their own businesses. Hear why they've chosen different approaches for their own situations and some mistakes you can learn from.