Property Jam

This month’s special guest is the very highly in demand, GB News’ Property expert Kristina Castellina, aka The Goodlife Property Investor!  Kristina has been on her property journey for 9 years now specialising in Serviced Accommodation in the Blackpool area.  She tells us about the changing faces of Blackpool and surveying nightmares with her last couple of properties - sounds like there’s a definite need for education around property surveying in the Blackpool region if anyone wants a career change!  Talking of careers, we also discuss what our dream jobs would be and having our make up done like a drag queen so it’s as varied as ever!!  Tune in when you can.

Bushra Mohammed joins us on this month’s podcast to chat about property and law and how she manages to combine the two.  Bushra is in a pretty unique position of being a solicitor who understands the problems and the solutions so we definitely pick her brains about that!!  We talk about the importance of being able to relate and communicate with everyone in all walks of life in the industry and beyond.  She tells us about her auction addiction, different types of plaster and falling asleep in court!! 

Happy New Year Property Jammers!!  We hope you had an amazing Christmas and New Year and have recovered from the Christmas episode (episode 206 if you haven't had the pleasure yet!!). We're back out of maternity leave and semi retirement for this special episode where we each talk about our plans for 2024, property trends for the year and make some predictions about what the property market will hold for 2024.  We get serious for a moment crunching some numbers, talk 40th birthday plans for Matt as well as Botox (no connection honest!) Barbados and cocktails.  

We'd love to hear about your 2024 plans so please do email us and let us know - propertyjampodcast@outlook.com. or comment on our socials.  See you next month for the next instalment of our guest series

It's that time of the year again!! We are back with another bangin' Christmas tune and a re-imagining that will make you both laugh and cringe at the same time. If you've not heard Property Jam before, then we apologise (!). If you are a regular listener, then you're in for treat!

Merry Christmas and we'll see you in the new year!

This month’s special guest is none other than Jack Wicks, Internet property guru - not to be mistaken for the Internet fitness guru Joe!!  Jack tells us all about his move from HMOs to social housing and his mission to house 1 million (count ‘em) vulnerable people through social living and supported living.  We discuss finding your passion and how that drives your success, society’s views around owning versus renting your home, chat about the perfect landlord and trying to understand the “human” behind all of the people that you deal with.  There’s also the first mention of (God Help Us) the ‘C’ word…no not that one…CHRISTMAS!!!  

We have a fab guest in store for you this month guys in the shape of Ella Hardy from Land Profits.  She was super fun to have on and we had a great chat all about land deals, joint ventures, reciprocal investing and going with your gut instinct on deals.  We touch upon deal sourcing - which regular listeners will know elicits a VERY strong response from our hosts - relationship building and the drama of 20 somethings!!  Niall also decides on a new business partner when it turns out Ella knows the best places in Reading to go for a cocktail…

We have another fantastic guest for you this month in the form of King of the North West…ish region Mr Adam Hindley!!  Adam tells us all about his property journey - clue it’s not straightforward and he arrived at property a mere 11 months ago via bass playing and physiotherapy!!  He tells us about being a great match with his business partner, becoming a major player in the Serviced Accommodation sector (or as he calls it “buy to lets on steroids”!) and generally how much he’s loving property life at the moment.  He also asks possibly the best question we’ve ever been asked before on Property Jam so tune in to find out what that was!!  Beware, his enthusiasm is infectious!  Enjoy!

We have a brand new guest on this month’s podcast, coming all the way from the land of canals, tulips and bicycles!  Samuel Hemmings from Hemco Properties tells us all about how he started in property as a student (using his student loan to buy a house) all the way to investing in the student market of Huddersfield - famous for Patrick Stewart, Huddersfield Town football club and Last of the Summer Wine.  Honestly it’s practically a history lesson.  We talk about learning on every project, getting the right team of people around you and the best piece of advice that you’ve ever been given.

Have a listen!

Join us for the first of our special monthly guest episodes where we introduce Max Scott from Star Property.  All round Jack of All Trades (and quite frankly it sounds like he’s mastered them all!)  He tells us how his property journey started and how it led to him being awarded the Property Investor of the Year Award in 2022 at the Property Investor Awards.  He talks gambling, construction, insurance, law firms and nerves in the auction room as well babies, growth and Imposter Syndrome driving problem solving.  We need a lie down…

We’ve made it to 200 episodes - YIPPEEEEE!!!!

Come with us down memory lane we reminisce about how we started, the most listened to episodes and of course the amazing guests that have been on with us.  We talk about starting a podcast in late 2019 and having to adjust how we record during lockdown and then how we relied on and used Property Jam to connect with each other and guests during the pandemic.  Jo throws it back to the 00s with “dongle” issues - let us know if you’re too young to know what we’re talking about!!  Finally a birthday episode wouldn’t be a birthday episode without a look at which US states we’re most popular in - is it still Ohio?!?!  Listen now to find out!!

Ok so we’re playing host roulette again!!  This week it’s the turn of Niall to be away and so Jo and Matt are flying soloish!!  Jo is surrounded by a 90th birthday party and is obviously having a raucous time during this record so if you hear a bit of background noise that’s what it is.  Elsewhere they talk about how sometimes it takes longer than you think to complete deals and some of the reasons behind this.  Both Matt and Jo have personal tales of woe on this subject and as ever there’s no holds barred in sharing them with us.  We’d love your thoughts on this episode so please do get in contact via all the usual ways across social media.  Enjoy!

Jo is away so Matt and Niall are flying solo this week.  They’re talking deals, delays and red tape and sharing stories of their frustrations at setbacks in property deals.  There’s also little wins, alternative jobs in Starbucks and a lack of control.  Solicitors get a little bit of a raw deal in this episode so if there’s any solicitors listening get in touch and you can have a right to reply -  Enjoy!!

Introducing Property Jam’s Biggest Fan (and a great judge of character)…Jessica Mortgages!!  Jessica has been listening to Property Jam for at least 2 years now and has pretty much listened to all the episodes so is very knowledgeable!!  She tells us about her property and mortgage businesses and how she manages all of her 23 (count ‘em) properties herself.  We talk about drama in the property market, conspiracy theories and politicians, media hype and drinking on the job - as well as a little bit of seriousness about mortgages and the current market.  Listen wherever you get your podcasts.

Rejection!  That’s what we’re chatting about this week, no not the romantic kind (although feel free to let us know about that!).  Specifically about getting a ‘No’ when it comes to raising finance or getting that property that you’ve had your eye on and done all the due diligence for.  How do you deal with rejection?  When is a ‘No’ a hard ‘No’ and when is it a ‘Not Yet’?  What can you learn from rejection?  And if you’re the one doing the rejecting, how do you do it in a professional manner?  Listen for all the lowdown.

Wow we have a treat for you this week, not one but TWO guests sat in the hot seat at Property Jam Towers (or their own houses because we record on Zoom!!).  We're joined by Jack Jiggens and Ben Richards from XP Property who tell us all about being modern developers and investors.  We cover such far reaching topics as architecture, poker playing, sales jobs and working in the fitness meal industry so you will not be bored!!  Ben and Jack tell us what the human side of property means to them, we dicuss dream jobs and Chat GBT and there's also a bit of marriage therapy in there too - it's all going on!  Listen wherever you get your podcasts, it's a cracker!!

It's a trip down memory lane for you PropertyJammers this week as we take another listen to Episode 113 and discuss the worst (and most annoying!) questions we get asked as Property Investors.  See if you can guess what they are...!  We discuss the questions, the perils of actually answering them and answering them honestly!  We'd especially love to hear from you regarding this episode so give us your thoughts on our social media pages.  See you next week.

Join us for the second of our “together in the SAME ROOM” episodes and we talk about maturing portfolios.  Is your property strategy flexible enough to cover a change in market or circumstances?  Can you turn any of your HMOs into Single Family Dwellings?  If your student market suffers a downturn can you change to attract a new type of tenant?  Now I know it all sounds very grown up but fear not we bring our own unique style to this chat and have a fair few giggles along the way!  Listen and let us know your thoughts.

Everyone is a little giddy on this week’s episode because Jo, Matt and Niall are IN THE SAME ROOM!!  We’re together for the first time in a long time and very happy about it.  We’re talking 100% mortgages and what it means for the market as well as for first time buyers.  There are lots of 100% puns and lots of laughs so have a listen and as always let us know your thoughts on our social media platforms.

This week’s guest is the super busy Saif Derzi from Property Buyers Today.  He tells us all about property trading and we’re not gonna lie - there’s been a lot of Googling here at Property Jam Admin HQ as we try to decipher what it’s all about!  He talks about being busier than ever and loving it, whether or not he has an exit strategy for the business and the deal that won him “Property Trader of the Year” at last year’s Property Investors Awards.  He also asks our hosts a question that has Matt a little bit spoilt for choice!  Have a listen...

We have something a little bit different for you this week - we are coming to you from an open day at a development project run by friends of the show Kerry Beckingsale and her property partner Craig Wilkinson.  The special episode features interviews from fellow property investors and lots of chat around the human side of property!  Have a listen.