(Garden) Grabbing The Headlines

Did you catch the recent news reports about the Government’s so-called “clampdown on garden grabbing”?
According to the press, garden grabbing – whereby developers build inappropriate developments within the back yards of existing houses – has become “a serious problem”. The Telegraph’s coverage is fairly typical of the way the mainstream press covered the story.
Someone reading [...]

“Buy land: They ain’t making any more of it!”…

…a friend of mine told me that in the pub last Friday.  It’s something a client of his tells him time and again. Last time I looked, his client was worth £1.3 BILLION in the Sunday Times Rich List.  Apparently this pearl of wisdom is the cornerstone of his wealth creation strategy – and it’s [...]

How much could you gain from Planning Gain? £300,000 maybe?

Sep 7, 2009  |  under Planning gain, Property  |  by Lyndon Forshaw

Regular readers will already be familiar with my multi-faceted approach to property. In addition to run-of-the-mill buy-to-let investing, I generate life changing and regular income through site finding, new build developing, land trading, renovating and – more recently – by helping others to replicate my methods.
I’ve already described how I used my knowledge of the [...]

A tricky question of looking beyond the obvious

I was speaking at my local property network meeting recently when a member of the audience asked me a very simple question. It’s a question that, surprisingly, nobody has ever asked me before. A question I should have been able to answer without hesitation. However, for some reason as I stood there in front of [...]