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 142: Reality of the buying process
August 17th, 2022 | 35 mins 29 secs
This week Stuart and Simon are talking through the purchase process - what are the steps and what do you need to do to be prepared and make it through the process smoothly.
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Episode 141: It's the numbers IN the properties!
August 10th, 2022 | 20 mins 44 secs
Simon and Stuart chat about the true meaning and value of an often quoted property metric.
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Episode 140: Buying property in a limited company
August 3rd, 2022 | 28 mins 2 secs
Stuart and Simon are talking about Simon's decision to buy his next property in a limited company, along with getting that process started and what else he can expect.
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Episode 139: Keys undertaking and heat in the North West
July 27th, 2022 | 29 mins 58 secs
Simon and Stuart are chatting about Stuart's experience hunting for HMO investments in the North West, plus buying with a keys undertaking agreement.
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Episode 138: Maximise income, minimise expense - top tips
July 20th, 2022 | 28 mins 25 secs
Stuart and Simon have been reviewing their property business income and expenses. Listen this week for tips on what to consider and improve to maximise your property profit.
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Episode 137: Should you worry about the rental reforms?
July 13th, 2022 | 28 mins 39 secs
This week Simon and Stuart chat about Section 24 tax and some of the proposed changes in the recent rental reform white paper.
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Episode 136: Property pension in tatters?
July 6th, 2022 | 24 mins 44 secs
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Episode 135: To buy or not to buy (in a limited company)
June 29th, 2022 | 28 mins 22 secs
Simon and Stuart are chatting about the age old question of limited company vs personal name for buying investment property. Complete with some very real (but do work your own out) estimates from Simon.
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Episode 134: An expert’s view on mortgages right now
June 22nd, 2022 | 37 mins 52 secs
Stuart and Simon are joined by mortgage expert Simon Glastonbury to share first hand experience of the current mortgage market. Covering challenges, new trends, interest rate forecasts and some quick-fire current interest rates.
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Episode 133: Making offers in this tough buying market
June 15th, 2022 | 28 mins 20 secs
There are many reasons that buying in a "hot" property market can be difficult. Stuart and Simon explore some they've been thinking about and overcoming.
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Episode 132: How can we reduce energy use to navigate rising costs?
June 8th, 2022 | 44 mins 30 secs
Join Stuart, Simon and special guest Emma as they talk about retro-fitting property for better energy efficiency and comfort. Make sure you catch Emma's dancing trio!
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Episode 131: Creating a Direct to Vendor (D2V) house purchase
June 1st, 2022 | 27 mins 8 secs
Simon and Stuart chat about how Stuart has found a direct to vendor purchasing opportunity, and what he's planning to do with it.