Scottish Property Podcast

In this episode, Nick & Steven chat with Kris Dalziel of Dalziel ventures about utilising his sales skills and accounting background to provide a full sourcing to project managing property service. 

• Starting off working in sales and recruitment 
• Returning to college to gain accounting degree for 5 years
• Making a mistake working for someone else 
• Investing in yourself and getting an education 
• Being a full time property source as well as an investor
• Providing a full service from sourcing to project management
• Bootstrapping a 10 property portfolio 
• Branching out to build a portfolio in the north of England
• Living in England and the differences for investors
• Tips for starting out as a sourcer 
• The effect of health and fitness on your business 

Website: dalzielventures.com
Instagram: @kristofferdalziel_property
@dalzielventures

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• Starting of working as an engineer
• Building his own financial business by age 24
• Realising your strengths and working to them 
• Using youth as an asset not a disadvantage
• Changes in the finance market 
• 14 consecutive rises in the base rate 
• How swap rates are the main driver of fixed rates 
• Fixed rate mortgage base rates 
• Explaining the “6 month rule”
• Lenders criteria and how it changed after the 2008 crash
• Are home reports are an opinion not fact?
• It is imperative to know your investment area
• How to factor in your number on bridging lending

Website: gofinancialservices.co.uk
Facebook: Cameron Leslie
Linkedin: Cameron Leslie
Instagram: @cameronleslie99

In this episode Nick & Steven chat with Craig Holmes from HIP Lettings management about recent events in the property monthly market update for September. 

We talk about the following:

• The recent cost of living act capping rent at 3%
• Final extension of legislation for a further 6 months 
• Will rent controls return to pre-covid measures?
• How will future rental controls be determined by the government?
• The difficulty for potential tenants finding rental properties
• Will future rent controls be linked directly to inflation
• Property investors are retaining stock over the board 
• England scrapping the minimum EPC rating requirements
• Property is being used as an easy target for energy legislation
• Latest short term let legislation

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Website: hiplettingsmanagement.co.uk
Instagram: @craig.holmes.property

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In this episode Nick has a catch up conversation about what’s going on in Steven’s businesses. The difference between finance in the past compared with today and Steven’s Aberdeen portfolio status.

• Stevens various projects in progress
• Follow up on completed projects
• Jumping on Opportunity 
• The pain points in the next few years with interest rates 
• Portfolio management 
• Bridging loans and their fees
• The difference in appraisals from last year to now
• Arrangements fees 
• Refinance applications
• Overexposure and over leveraging 

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In this timely episode of the Scottish Property Podcast, hosts Nick and Steven sit down with special guest Chris Turnbull, an experienced short-term let owner with properties in both Edinburgh and Glasgow. With the upcoming Short-Term Lets Licensing deadline on October 1st looming large, Chris offers a wealth of practical advice, having recently navigated the new regulations himself.

Key Points Covered:

The Application Process: Chris takes us step-by-step through the complexities of applying for the new short-term let license.

Edinburgh vs. Glasgow: The two cities have diverging approaches when it comes to planning permission requirements. We delve into what you need to know for each jurisdiction.

Certificate of Lawfulness: Discover how you can potentially circumvent planning permission hurdles through the use of a certificate of lawfulness.

Government's Intentions: Why is the government enacting these new laws? We take a closer look at the motivations behind these sweeping changes.

Economic and Touristic Implications: What do these new regulations mean for Scotland's gig economy and tourism industry? We examine the potential long-term impacts.

Missing the Deadline: What could happen to those who miss the crucial October 1st deadline? Chris shares some insights.

Don't miss out on this indispensable guide to navigating Scotland's Short-Term Let Licensing. Time is of the essence, and this episode aims to equip you with the knowledge and strategies you'll need to comply with the new regulations.

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In this episode Steven has a catch up conversation about what’s going on in Nick’s business. The Highs, lows, trials of Nick’s Lettings agency issues along with putting across the best image of yourself to achieve growth in your business.

In this episode Nick & Steven chat with Ryan Quinn from Quinn & Co wealth management about his move from sports businesses into property investment and financial planning. How buying 10 buy to let's gave him the power to retrain.

• The difficulty in starting your own business 
• Foreign cash buyers looking for properties in Scotland
• Nick acquiring a small letting agency 
• What is possible in terms of growth?
• Taking on new members of staff
• Spending your life on social media for business 
• Hiring someone based on the skills you don’t have 
• Relinquishing full control of your business 
• Remaining available to clients 
     

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In this episode Nick & Steven chat with Ryan Quinn from Quinn & Co wealth management about his move from sports businesses into property investment and financial planning. How buying 10 buy to let's gave him the power to retrain.

• Starting off in sports and football coaching
• Creating his adventure football business 
• Using your time for what you want to do 
• Learning about property from a friend 
• Seeing mistakes on first properties and adjusting 
• Leaving 12k in first properties 
• Spending 10k on property education
• Sourcing can leave you kicking yourself looking back 
• Struggling at school with ADHD
• The impact of ADHD on business
• Sustainable wealth building 
• Utilising all different asset classes    

Website: www.quinnwealthmanagement.co.uk

Instagram: @ryanquinnwealthmanagement

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In this episode Nick & Steven chat with Alex Walker about his hooses! Alex is back on for the second time. He shares a day in the life of owning and managing 246 properties with another 4 in the pipeline. Is it possible to balance building wealth and health?

We talk about the following:

• Life being thrown to the side when building a business 
• Finding balance between business, fitness and personal life
• Owning and managing 246 properties 
• Your business should grow 15% a year 
• You must get out and do the graft 
• Considering other strategies
• Providing a good product for tenants 
• Being aware of the refurb costs over the years 
• Spending money to make money 
• Putting aside £100 per property per month 
• Making less profit with more properties
• Releasing £130,000 equity on 9 properties

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In this episode Nick & Steven chat with John Cox from Cox & Co mortgage brokers about the latest in the world of property investing in August for the monthly market update.

We talk about the following:

• The lack of positivity this month 
• Rentals quarterly report 
• 15% increase on rent on average 
• Having 70 applicants in 24 hours for rentals 
• Landlords looking to keep rents lower for fairness 
• The latest news from legislation changes 
• Rent increases in the big cities 
• Will the rent cap and eviction bans be lifted?
• 8% increase on student rent but capped at 3% for private sector 
• Latest house price index from land registry at 0.0%
• Where is the sort term rental market going?

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In this episode Nick & Steven chat to Terry Blackburn about his rags to riches story going from growing up with very little in the north east of England to building a large portfolio and purchasing hotels and multiple HMO’s along the way.

• Selling a financial services business
• Buying large and small hotels
• The importance of starting with buy to let
• Perfecting a strategy before moving on to others
• Break ins, attempted murders and drug dealers in properties
• Buying quality stock over cheap flats
• investing in the north east of England
• Rags to riches story
• Selling properties due to negative rates issue
• Challenging yourself and being the best at what you do    

Website: terryblackburnproperty.com
Linkedin: Terry Blackburn
Facebook: TerryBlackburnProperty
Instagram: terry_blackburn_property

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In this episode Nick & Steven chat with Jesper Frederiksen about his 12 Scottish properties, His 19 apartments and 8-bed HMO in England. From oil and gas to project management and building his own nationwide portfolio.

• Renovating property while living in it
• The value of education before starting out in property
• Offering on 150 properties in 6 months 
• Having only 8 of those 150 offers accepted 
• He and his wife both leaving the oil and gas industry 
• Tying all of his cash up in a flip at the start 
• Buying 3 properties, keeping 2 and selling 1 
• Owning 12 properties in Scotland
• Employing contractors full time 
• Stopping work as project management 
• Concentrating on his own portfolio
• Purchasing an HMO in England   

Website: quarterbank.co.uk
Linkedin: Jesper Frederiksen

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In this episode Nick & Steven deep dive into the world of portfolio purchases. The numbers and due diligence process. The pro’s and con’s. How to find them and the motivation for landlords to sell. 

• The difference in ADS between single unit and portfolio purchases
• Landlords motivations for selling
• How to find portfolios for sale
• The pro’s and con’s of buying portfolios
• What is classed as a portfolio 
• The effect on market value discount of purchasing portfolios
• What lenders require before providing finance  
• The due diligence process 
• EPC checks to future proof properties 

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In this episode Nick and Steven chat with Noreen Preston about her property portfolio and how she has created a modern multi use business centre from an old building purchased by her Father in the 90's.  

• How Noreen started in property 
• Living in a property while doing the refurb 
• Reasons behind building a portfolio
• Her criteria for buy to let properties since 2018
• Focusing on commercial business recently 
• Portfolio diversification 
• The ethics and public perception of being a landlord
• Will we become a generation of renters?
• Owning a 100 year old building with 160,000 square feet 
• Owning and running a storage company within the building 
• Seeing the potential in an old family asset 
• Filling commercial needs for potential clients  

Website: cclpropertyltd.uk
Linkedin: Noreen Preston

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In this episode, Steven and Nick welcome Mark Shanta back to chat about the latest developments from July in the property market. Check out the video on youtube!

We talk about the following:

• Latest figures from consumer price index inflation rate
• Inflation slowed to 7.9% from 8.7% last month 
• Highest mortgage rates in year
• Potential Mortgage rates being reduced soon
• We are still 5.9% off the inflation target 
• Other countries are sitting at 3% due to earlier rate rises 
• Annual house price increase of 3.2% in 12 months to may 2023
• 200k-400k market is currently struggling
• Are we still competing against first time buyers?
• The problems facing the BRRR investors
• Scottish market being on the increase while south is on the decline
• Scottish rent prices going up higher due to the governments interference 

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Website: shantaresidential.co.uk
Instagram - @mshanta5
Linkedin - Mark Shanta
Twitter - @MShanta5

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In this episode Nick and Steven chat with Connor McGuinness and Barry Wilson from Kraken Property Group. They share how they found an abandoned rotting property owned by a hoarder in the Sun newspaper and how they managed to secure the deal using the assisted sale strategy.

• Meeting at a property education event 
• The opportunities created from paying it forward 
• Making 45k off one deal and 35k from another 
• Starting using your own money to learn what you are doing
• Finding a deal through the Sun newspaper
• Being persistent in contacting the vendor 
• Changing Tac to get your foot in the door 
• The need to treat your first few years in property as an apprenticeship 
• Spending £4000 on skips to clear out the hoarding piles 
• Using the assisted sale strategy to get it over the line 
• The preference of assisted sale over a flip and why 
• The risks and downside of assisted sales 
• How being respectful to the vendor can help get the deal done

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Krakenpropertygroup.co.uk
Krakenhomebuyers.com
Instagram: @connaire31
Linkedin: 
Connaire McGuinness
Barry Wilson 

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In this episode Nick and Steven chat about whether buy to let is still a viable strategy in 2023. Is it a dead strategy or is it all a matter of opinion, spin and fear mongering?

• What are the main concerns with buy to lets at the moment
• ADS going up to 6% recently 
• Rent caps and eviction bans 
• The interest rates keep rocketing up
• Property is still the best way to store wealth
• The difference with property and other asset classes 
• The importance of not over-leveraging going forward 
• Thinking in the long term over cashflow
• Investors are leaving buy to let because its too slow
• If it is dead why are big investors still using it as a strategy?
• Is it self managing investors who are dropping out of the game?
• The days of using buy to let cashflow to replace your job are gone 
• Is it viable to change the strategy of certain properties to SA
• The worries around the EPC ratings in the future 

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This week Nick and Steven chat to Barry Gray of BLG investments about how he bought 17 properties in 17 months starting out with a 6 property portfolio purchase in Montrose. Barry shares the risks taken and the issues faced along the way. Almost going broke and keeping the train on the tracks.

• Starting out working for Pharmaceutical companies 
• Building up a pot of cash working throughout Covid
• Having nearly £100,000 to begin in property with 
• Beating analysis paralysis and “not the right time”
• Starting out with a 6 property portfolio purchase in Montrose
• Showing that you can do what you say you are going to do  
• Spending an unexpected 40k on a refurb 
• Buying an auction purchase with all money out after 6 months 
• Using other properties as collateral against a bridging loan to buy more 
• Almost going broke and having refinancing save the day 

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Instagram: @blg_property_investments
website: blg-property.co.uk

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In this weeks episode, Nick and Steven chat to Davy Hutton about the latest in the economy and property market for the month of June. 

• The announcement that inflation isn’t going anywhere
• How high will UK interest rates go
• The effects on the economy and property industry from Brexit
• Has the latest data spooked the market?
• Is there a mortgage ticking time bomb on the horizon?
• Finance and PCP type methods of payment adding to the issues?
• House prices and the annual price change 
• Is it more likely that prices will head more south than north?
• Are the Government trying to buy time to increase rent controls?
• Latest legislation introduced on short term lets 

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Facebook: QuicksaleProperty
Find your feet charity
Quick sale property auctions
Law Castle

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In this weeks episode Steven and Nick chat with Steven Easton of Easton Group about owning 300 residential properties & 100 commercial properties within the family business whilst also running a green energy efficiency company. He provides some great business insights along with advice on achieving EPC ratings. 

• 400 properties split between residential and commercial 
• Energy efficiency solutions 
• How his father became an accidental landlord
• Buying a £1.5 million property at auction in London 
• The retail markets ongoing recovery struggle
• Rents and rates correlation 
• Running a portfolio of 100 shops
• Building a property management company
• Running business while growing a portfolio
• Running a home improvement contracting business

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greenhomesystems.co.uk

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In this episode Nick & Steven have a chat with the lads from Brightstone property, Andrew Harkins & Chris Brown. they go into the details of their buy to let portfolio, flip projects and why they have decided to pivot into the world of commercial property.

• Complimentary skill sets and roles in business
• Starting on a large flip in Blantyre
• Using family for trades vs using outside contractors 
• Disagreements and weaknesses in partnerships
• Numbers on the first flip
• Conducting business through fear of a market crash 
• Financing purchases 
• The power of education and network in property 
• The importance of accountability 
• Why they have pivoted from buy to let into commercial 
• Moving into serviced accommodation 

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