Dear Jonty: Buy to let in Portsmouth

I am just about to jump in a buy my first buy2let investment property near me in Portsmouth.  I have followed your progress for a few years now and I wanted to get in touch and run this proposition by you....

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UK v Spain

Being in Spain the other day made me realise that while the UK property market has taken a battering since the end of 2007, albeit with the recent illiquid recovery, Spain is nursing a much more painful headache. Simple demand-supply stats tell you the story....

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Nothing is more important than buying under market value

I was speaking at the A Place in the Sun show recently in Birmingham. My talk was on How to Manage Risk and Still Make Money....

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Theres more than meets the eye with the recent recovery in property prices

House prices are being reported as increasing month by month.  In particular, the south-east is reporting some increases but this is normal as property inflation tends to ripple out from the south-east....

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From viability to liability

My Dad told me once about the property crash of 1974.  He referred to one of the major developers at the time to whom he used to render legal advice....

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Time to look closer to home?

It is more rational to buy UK property now than it was in 2005, 2006 or 2007.....

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Fractional ownership: The smart lifestyle investment

The changing in the economic cycle often ushers in whole new genres of products that fit with the new times. Or, a product that was in circulation at the margins of the market....

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We Brits Are Loved!

If you are French don't read this blog entry! I'm in the middle of sorting out a major restructure in Istanbul. The developer we worked with has run out of cash. With AIG and Citibank in the same stable it doesn't sound as bad these days. But running out of cash spoils things for everyone. So we got involved....

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The opportunities on our doorstep

They say that life goes in cycles. And sometimes this is very apparent. Alise and I started out in property investing in individual properties in the UK. We stopped investing in the UK in any significant way in December 2003. There was still some value to be had in 2004 but it was clear to me that market was getting very exuberant and was rapidly losing touching with underlying economic reality....

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