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 159: Should we be concerned about rents dropping and are we dropping our prices?
December 14th, 2022 | 29 mins 8 secs
Stuart and Simon are chatting about movements in the rental market, and managing the process of changing rents for existing tenancies.
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Episode 158: Property vs Crypto vs Shares - update on our other investments
December 7th, 2022 | 23 mins 30 secs
Simon and Stuart are talking about their real life investment returns - comparing across crypto, stocks and shares, and of course property.
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Episode 157: Reviewing Simon’s potential property investments
November 30th, 2022 | 26 mins 15 secs
Stuart and Simon chat about two identical, but differently priced, properties that Simon has been looking at as potential buy to let investments.
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Episode 156: Living intentionally: changing our actions to meet goals
November 23rd, 2022 | 24 mins 47 secs
Simon and Stuart are talking about some of the actions they choose to take to live intentionally and make personal improvements.
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Episode 155: Time to start negotiating on your next property purchase!
November 16th, 2022 | 28 mins 14 secs
Stuart and Simon are chatting about the rapidly changing property market. They speculate a little on what the future may hold and how you can approach it.
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Episode 154: Tanning salons, smelly houses & a 27 bed property - investment update time!
November 9th, 2022 | 25 mins 4 secs
Simon and Stuart are talking about their latest investments and potential investments. Including some things not going as planned and deciding against buildings with potential.
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Episode 153: Property asking prices are reducing, time to invest?
November 2nd, 2022 | 25 mins
Stuart and Simon have a discussion around where the property market is at the moment - use the latest market data from PaTMa.
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Episode 152: Tracker vs fixed, 20 year property investment analysis
October 26th, 2022 | 27 mins 1 sec
Simon and Stuart are talking about the new (much higher) mortgage stress test rates and their real world effect. Plus a real-world analysis of a tracker vs fixed mortgage rates over the last 20 years.
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Episode 151: Mortgage rates for property investing right now
October 19th, 2022 | 39 mins 14 secs
We're delighted to be joined by our mortgage expert to discuss the rapidly changing mortgage market of the last few weeks. Including updated stress test rates and the latest available mortgage interest rates.
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Episode 150: Dealing with Nil Valuations in property investing
October 12th, 2022 | 23 mins 11 secs
What can you do when your mortgage valuation comes back as "nil"? Stuart and Simon are talking about that exact situation and how Stuart is handling it. Plus more updates from Stuart's property business, including missing stairs and a fireman's pole!
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Episode 149: Disappearing mortgages and price reductions!
October 5th, 2022 | 23 mins 38 secs
Simon and Stuart are talking about their experiences and evidence of the (rapidly) changing property market.
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Episode 148: What we're thinking before our next investment
September 28th, 2022 | 19 mins 13 secs
Stuart and Simon are chatting about the rapidly changing world of property regulation, and other circumstances, before their next investment purchases.