Is Buy To Let On The Brink Of Collapse?

Yep you guessed it a newspaper headline for
you this month. The scaremongering continues which is good news for those of us who are serious about property investment.

The amateurs with more money than sense get frightened away and you benefit from a softening in prices allowing you to stack up deals that may not have previously made sense.

It is difficult sometimes to consider short term market blips whilst keeping your long term goals in mind so I’d like you to read this article with one eye focused on today’s unique challenges and issues
and the other firmly focused on what you want your life to be like five years from today.

This is important because no matter what you do or what business you are in, there will always be things for you to worry about on a day to day basis. Very often these challenges distract us from our long term goals and if we focus on these challenges we will

quickly be led away from the things we most want in life and deeper into day to day problems.

Remember, property is a medium to long term investment. If you worry too much about today you’ll never get started…

catch up, they go up again and so on. This cycle has repeated itself for hundreds of years all
over the world so on that basis it is a safe bet to assume the cycle should continue to repeat itself in a similar form.

So that’s the first thing to bear in mind with all the short term uncertainty that is around at the moment.

Recently, I spotted Robert Kiyosaki (author of ‘Rich Dad Poor Dad’) on the Larry King Live show. When asked about the current state of the property market in the US he quickly replied with a smile “property is finally on sale – I’m very happy”.

And he’s dead right.

I believe the next three years will present many opportunities to snap up investment properties at fire sale prices. This is the BIG opportunity staring us all in the face in
2008.

Continued ..

If You Don’t Get Started You’ll Never Reap The Long Term Rewards!

It is rare that I meet someone in property who made all his or her money in a year or two yet I meet many people who purchased properties over several years allowing them to accumulate significant wealth over time. In the property business it really is the tortoise that beats the hare
every time.

As you know, the property market moves in cycles just like any other asset class be it shares, gold, antiques etc.

Property prices go up, they peak, they fall or stabilise, rents and affordability

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