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Honest Property Investment with Natasha Collins

Natasha Collins

Confident investing without shortcuts. The Honest Property Investment Podcast gives UK commercial and mixed-use property investors the expert insight, strategic guidance, and no-fluff support they need to build high-performing portfolios that generate income and hold long-term value. Led by Chartered Surveyor Natasha Collins MRICS, each episode dives into smart commercial property strategies, risk mitigation, leasing, valuations, and the realities of property management — all with honesty,

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00:35:48

How I prepared (ish) my business for Maternity Leave

Honest Property Investment with Natasha Collins ·

2022/02/15

GET ACCESS TO CROSSING OVER TO COMMERCIAL BY CLICKING HERE If you’re not here for Pregnancy content, you can skip this weeks newsletter/pod.But let me tell you it’s been my most requested podcast and so here it is, warts and all. Currently I’m on Maternity leave. Team NCRE have me covered and are still running the ship because I have the best team of Surveyors and Property experts so service was never going to slip. But I may have got ahead of myself. I originally recorded this pod on the 28th Jan,

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00:20:38

Finding BMV Commercial Property

Honest Property Investment with Natasha Collins ·

2022/02/09

Have you started my free mini-course Crossing Over to Commercial? It’s prompting a lot of questions, which I’m more than happy to answer… here’s a biggie: ‘You say only search in one location, but I can’t find any BMV deals there, so can I expand my search?’ No 👏 no 👏 no Mainly because… BMV (below market value) just isn’t a thing in commercial property (I don’t believe it is in resi, but we just don’t have time to go through that right now). Commercial properties are priced based on risk and its

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00:19:08

Asset Management 101 and Beating a Down Valuation

Honest Property Investment with Natasha Collins ·

2022/02/01

I’m going to start by celebrating the fact that after 3 valuations I finally got a valuation for my remortgage that is what I wanted it to be… the RIGHT VALUE! I had to get to that figure mainly because I had my second charge mortgage relying on it and quite frankly, anything less and I was going to be out of pocket, which I’m not doing. To keep you in suspense, I’ll give you the names of the lenders and valuers in my pod ;) All I can say is, if you know the Comps state your property should be

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00:18:43

Catfishing in Property and What’s the Deal with ITZA

Honest Property Investment with Natasha Collins ·

2022/01/25

You can sign up to Crossing Over to Commercial HERE First things first, I need to get a public announcement out there to ask… please, commercial agents, stop with the Catfishing! I just can’t… What do I mean?! Pricing property deals way too low so that you get eyeballs or bids and then being shocked when I call up and give you an offer at the market price and you saying ‘No that’s way too low!’. Errm yass… so why bother listing at that price… grrrr! The problem being that I have to look into it

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00:15:09

The decisions you MUST make to buy commercial property

Honest Property Investment with Natasha Collins ·

2022/01/20

It may sound obvious that you MUST be good at decision making in order to be a property investor… But it truly shocks me the number of investors who say to me ‘is this a good deal, would you buy it?’ Because that’s not the question you should be asking. That’s asking me to judge a deal based on decisions I’d make for my own portfolio… that’s not your portfolio and your goals. I know for a fact that clients of mine and friends definitely wouldn’t buy the same things that I buy and that’s brilliant

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00:27:59

Where you need to concentrate on being resilient in...

Honest Property Investment with Natasha Collins ·

2022/01/11

Now it's time to focus and I want you to listen closely because there are some tripping hazards in 2022, that if you don’t concentrate on, will slow your property investment success this year. The biggest tripping hazard… F👏I👏N👏A👏N👏C👏E (Finance) Firstly, if you need an affirmation, use ‘There will always be finance for my property’... I firmly believe that. However, it’s taking longer than ever to find a product that suits that you’re aiming for. This is across the board for both residential

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00:29:47

The Risks I’ve taken to become the End of 2021...

Honest Property Investment with Natasha Collins ·

2021/12/22

After last weeks podcast about the 10 business mistakes I’ve made, it also got me thinking about the biggest risks I’ve taken to get to where I am right now. Success doesn’t happen through luck or coincidence, it happens because you keep putting yourself out there again and again and again until something sticks… here’s a summary of the risks I have taken which have made me laugh and cry, I go into the learnings in detail on this week's podcast. And just like that… it’s the end of 2021. Thank you so

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00:31:58

The 10 worst mistakes I’ve made in business (In no...

Honest Property Investment with Natasha Collins ·

2021/12/14

It’s getting to the end of the year and firstly I’m getting reflective… for the second year in a row we’re about to double NC Real Estate’s income… in fact it’s doubled today and we’ve still got 4 months until the end of the year. It’s crazy, certainly something that when I sit down and reflect with Lorenza and the rest of my team, I wouldn’t have even imagined being able to do back in 2016-17 when I really started to push forward on this. In the spirit of transparency and to help those of you out

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00:36:58

Moving House, Serviced Accommodation Sometimes Sucks...

Honest Property Investment with Natasha Collins ·

2021/12/07

I didn’t know how to sum up this email and subsequent podcast in anymore of a succinct way then simply: Moving House, Serviced Accommodation Sometimes Sucks and Resident Meetings because that has been the last two weeks of my life. Maybe… now I’m reflecting on the podcast I just recorded, all of the chaos happened with my US portfolio and I’m just not used to dealing with Amercians and I’m a fish out of water. What I can confirm is that: Hosting an Air BnB in the US seems to come with more demands

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00:25:47

The deets on my newest commercial property purchase

Honest Property Investment with Natasha Collins ·

2021/11/30

Click Here to join my Webinar on Monday 6th December The 5 Step Process to nailing down and executing your Property Investment Strategy...over the next 12 months - https://ncrealestate.co.uk/december2021 It took 6 months to go through but finally the commercial property in Barnstaple completed!! There are a lot of lessons that I’ve learnt here: If you buy a commercial property (that’s wholly commercial not mixed use) lending is harder to get which makes it more expensive… eurgh 7.3%. The reason

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00:25:04

Residential Investors perhaps we need to stop getting...

Honest Property Investment with Natasha Collins ·

2021/11/23

SIGN UP For the December webinar HERE I float this question because there is always so much buzz around the next creative strategy… HMO’s, which are a product of the private investment market and have been picked up and ran with by small time investors thinking they are about to make a quick buck… when over the years legislation and increased health and safety (which is necessary) have decreased net yields. SA’s whereby investors, excited to get nightly prices rather than monthly prices,

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00:20:41

What’s all the fuss about sheds?

Honest Property Investment with Natasha Collins ·

2021/11/16

Sign up for the Webinar on the 6th December HERE If you’ve seen where the hype is in the commercial property market, you’ll know it’s great big massive sheds somewhere around the midlands where all the big online retailers are gathering on good supply routes. We’ve seen cap rates (yields) down as low as 3.5%, the reason being, they are seen as ‘safe bet investments’ for large pension pots and big investors. Caroline Saxon, our in house commercial surveyor believes that, for now, these larger

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00:23:47

The next hot commercial deal is...

Honest Property Investment with Natasha Collins ·

2021/11/09

I’ve invited the next Team NCRE member onto the Pod, Doug Parker, our asset management surveyor. We talk about how the mundane actually can be the most lucrative. Why you need to be patient and the secondary / tertiary locations we’d be investing in for good commercial property deals RIGHT NOW… but you’re going to need to listen to the podcast to find that out! Fill out this questionnaire for what you want to see coming up on the podcast WEBINAR Sign up here - Monday 6th December @ 6:30pm The 5 Step

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00:36:24

We all need small wins in Property Investment

Honest Property Investment with Natasha Collins ·

2021/11/02

This week I've invited Lorenza Allan who is the community manager for the Members Club onto the podcast to discuss how small wins add up to big things in property investment! Remember to come and follow this podcast @honestpropertyinvestment

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00:26:46

How and why commercial property is so tasty right now!

Honest Property Investment with Natasha Collins ·

2021/10/26

JOIN THE MEMBERS CLUB AT £97/MONTH FOR THE LAST TIME HERE Last night I hosted a webinar, which covered exactly how and why commercial property is so tasty right now. Whilst it’s still turbulent times in the commercial sector… some tenants are still struggling. Some property is still lying empty. But, that seems to be the exception, not the rule (well in my experience). The trick is that rather than sitting back and letting the market work around you, you have to be proactive in speaking to your

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00:17:55

Have a little patience Property Investor!

Honest Property Investment with Natasha Collins ·

2021/10/22

Before I get started, make sure to register for my webinar on Monday 25th October at 6:30pm UK time: How to Supercharge Your Portfolio through buying Commercial property, Without jumping on the Commercial to Residential bandwagon. Have you been feeling like you’re rushing your property investment journey recently? Maybe you feel like things aren’t happening quickly enough? If you’ve answered YES to either one of those questions its a sure sign that you have given up on patience… which is one of the

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00:31:42

The Truth About Residential Property Finance Coming...

Honest Property Investment with Natasha Collins ·

2021/10/12

Before I get started this week, I’m putting this up top… come join me LIVE on Monday 25th October at 6:30pm for my webinar: How to Supercharge Your Portfolio through buying Commercial Property without jumping on the commercial to residential bandwagon. Just click the link ⬆️ and pop in your name and email and I’ll send you the details. I’m always curious about the changing nature of the mortgage industry… the reason being it seems to change on a month by month basis. You think you’re getting lending

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00:21:28

Let’s get off the commercial to residential gravy...

Honest Property Investment with Natasha Collins ·

2021/10/05

It’s been a hot minute since I last released a podcast, here we are on season 4! I see the trends come and go in the property industry. Flavour of the month is commercial to residential conversion… I’m skeptical that we should all be doing it. Here’s what I’m finding works instead (if you’re looking to buy commercial): Find something that’s got an alright value because it’s either vacant or part vacant. Get an estimated rental figure for the building Look at the demand for tenants in this area

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00:28:01

Buying property in the UK v the US which works better?

Honest Property Investment with Natasha Collins ·

2021/09/15

This week I’m late in sending this out because I’ve been in Austin, TX, searching for another house! I’ve had so many requests for details on what it’s like to buy in the US that I thought I would share. Now full disclaimer, I’m not a US investment expert we buy where we need a base… that’s completely possible because the money needed on completion is low. For example on what I’m about to tell you, the purchase price is $595k, we’ll need $50k/£36k to complete. If you’ve been listening to the pod,

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00:24:17

Being a property investor isn’t for the faint hearted

Honest Property Investment with Natasha Collins ·

2021/09/07

I’m not going to sugar coat it, being a property investor is hard. Especially when you’re building a portfolio and you want to keep buying. I’ve been doing this for 12 years and this week I was met with a curveball… a lender ignored the valuation report and allowed their underwriter to choose the value instead. Remember to come and follow me @honestpropertyinvestment Don’t forget to subscribe and rate and review! If you have a story to tell me please email natasha@ncrealestate.co.uk Here’s the link

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