transport links

In this week's episode of The Property Podcast, Rob & Rob discuss the exact tools they use to establish strong property fundamentals when analysing potential investment locations. They cover key factors such as employment, transport links, education, and regeneration, providing practical tips and specific tools for research. 

You'll learn... 

- How to assess employment fundamentals using tools like LinkedIn Jobs and major employer searches. 

- Techniques for analysing transport links, including rail, bus, and airport proximity and services. 

- The importance of evaluating education factors like schools, universities, and local amenities. 

- How to identify regeneration potential in an area using news searches and investment websites. 

• (0:45) News story of the week  
• (2:24) The five fundamentals begin… 
• (3:24) Tools to access employment data for a location 
• (4:44) How to analyse various types of transport links  
• (9:10) Techniques to evaluate education fundamentals 
• (10:58) The importance of accessing local amenities 
• (12:46) How to scope out potential regeneration projects in an area  
• (17:22) Hub Extra: Save money on your next holiday! 

Links mentioned: 

• Halifax house price index 
• Indeed job search 
• Rightmove 
• Trainline 
• Commuter maps 
• Bustimes.org 
• Google maps 
• The good schools guide 
• Complete university guide 
• StreetCheck 
• Hotels.com 
• Booking.com 

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Rob & Rob are sharing their investment strategies

It’s easy for Rob & Rob to give their advice each week on The Property Podcast, but this week they’re putting their money where their mouths are.

To give listeners an insight into how they’ve been so successful at investing, The Robs are sharing their personal investment strategies.

Unsurprisingly, they start by looking at the fundamentals (which you can read about here).

They also reveal why they look for new-builds, or at least properties less than a decade old, despite some investors having strong opinions on them.

What are ‘trophy assets’ and why do Rob & Rob look for them?

And finally, you’ll find out which locations they’re focussing on at the moment.

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As you can imagine The Robs get inundated with questions day in, day out on all our different platforms. From social media to our Property Hub forum, they get questions fired at them from all directions. 

But one of the places that they get asked lots of questions is through Property Hub Invest. So this week on The Property Podcast, Rob & Rob are answering the most asked questions for you all to hear. 

On a daily basis our Property Hub Invest team talk to clients who are at different stages of their property journey and everyone has a different question to ask, but nine times out of ten they’re all similar. 

So what better way to answer all these frequently asked questions than to compile them all into a podcast episode. Here are some of the questions you can expect to get an answer to:

• How to get a deposit together…
• How to find an area to invest…
• Where to invest and what returns should be expected?
• Is capital growth better on flats or houses?
• Is 1, 2, 3 etc bedrooms better? 

There’s even more questions getting answered in this episode. Maybe one of them has been circling around in your mind. Or if you have a completely different question, make sure you get in touch with a member of our Invest team. 

Our news story this week comes from Property Investor Today and the headline is ‘young Brits are on the move in the UK, and here’s where…’ For once this is a news headline that The Robs actually agree with. Although some aspects seem a little questionable, the overall stats seem to be pretty spot on - city centre living is on the up. 

The Robs have discussed this previously on the podcast and they talk all about the secret trend that nobody else is seeing, so you should definitely go and give that episode a listen.

And finally, the Hub Extra comes with a warning this week…  it might just depress you a little bit at just how old you are. It’s a website called ‘you’re getting old’, which basically shows you all different stats about how old you are. 

You simply enter in your date of birth and the site will show you things like how many days you’ve been alive, how many candles will have been on all your birthday cakes together as well as some interesting milestones throughout the years and how old you were at the time. It’s all a little bit of light hearted fun. 

We’d love to hear what you think of this week’s Property Podcast over on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram. You might even have a topic you’d like us to cover in the future - if so, pop us a message on social and we’ll see what we can do.

Make sure you’ve liked and subscribed to our YouTube channel where we upload new content every week!

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This week on Ask Rob & Rob we’ve got another two cracking property questions from listeners.

First up we’ve got Scott who is a first time investor looking to purchase a property in Sheffield. Sheffield is a great option but he’s also looking at properties in Doncaster as they’re slightly cheaper. Naturally Scott’s question is whether Doncaster will experience any capital growth.

The neighbouring city of Sheffield has been pegged as one of Rob & Robs hotspots for this year, but will Doncaster benefit from a knock on effect? With the amount of public and private investment being ploughed into the area, you may well think so.  

Listen as Rob B gives his opinion and reiterates the importance of fundamentals when investing in property. The Robs covered this last monthso be sure to have a listen if you missed it.

Our next question comes from Adam. After listening to the episode on leveraging, Adam wants to know what would happen if his property decreased in value and he lost his initial 25% deposit (therefore having no equity in the property). Would he be tied into his current mortgage product and unable to switch to a better product?

Tune in to find out what the outcome is and what advice Rob D has for Adam...

Do you have a buy to let or property investment related question for Rob & Rob? You could feature on the next episode by giving us a call on013 808 00035 and leaving a messagewith your name and question (normal UK call rates apply).

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The next question on Ask Rob & Rob could be yours.

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This week on Ask Rob & Rob, Danny and another listener...

...Asks Rob & Rob – two questions about the London Property Market

The Robs give their take on buying in The Capital and weigh up the potential for investors in the area.

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Rob B starts by reminding you that what may be right for one person, won't necessarily be right for another. There will be pros and cons to each approach and there's no absolutely 'right' answer for everyone. However, whilst there is definitely an advantage in being a 'local expert' it is unlikely that your local area will consistently be a smart place to invest, which is why Rob & Rob invest all over the UK in places they consider to have good fundamentals. Rob allocates a lot of his time to research, and considers it to be lower risk to invest in different locations. 

Rob D agrees, it's definitely lower risk to invest in different areas IF you do good research to avoid making any mistakes. Rob D also adds a note of caution for this weeks caller, who had stated she had received lots of BMV deals and reminds everyone to check out these deals really thoroughly before going ahead, and be super diligent with your fact-checking. 

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If you’ve got some money to invest in 2016, where’s the best place to put it? That’s the question we attempt to answer in this week’s episode. Before getting to the specifics though, we needed to talk about the context – and the factors in play pull together lots of the topics we’ve covered over […]

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