Rob's Blog

Read any news story about property and you’ll come away terrified about a looming “crisis” and blinded by astonishing statistics. How do you pick your way through the hyperbole and get to the truth?

Dream of being "financially free"? So do a lot of people – but they fail, because they never work out how to turn that dream into reality. This post gives you a more practical way of looking at it...

I'm a big fan of peer-to-peer lending – especially when there's free money involved too.

There's plenty of bad news in buy-to-let right now – but it's hurting mortgage lenders more than investors, and that means opportunity...

On the face of it, the property market looks a lot calmer than the jagged ups and downs of the stock market – but don't miss what's happening below the surface...

If you just look at the short-term, the case for property looks shakier than it has in a while. But unless you zoom out, you risk missing what makes it such a great long-term investment...

For once, investors have made it through a Budget relatively unscathed – but there are still a few things worth being aware of...

Learning about US property investment introduced me to a calculation we should really be using over here…