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Flipping a UK Property Portfolio for £190K!!!

The Expat Property Guy Season 8 Episode 241

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This is a cracking episode you won't want to miss.

It features a case study of how Saif Rehan is making a potential gross profit of around 190K by:

Buying a portfolio of 6 houses from a retiring landlord

Trading 4 at auction

Reconfiguring the 5th

Developing the 6th into a 6 Bed HMO leased to a Social Provider which he can now either hold or sell.

We discuss:

·       Need for supplementary income to maintain and grow property portfolios

·       Importance of cash flow models

·       Multiple sources of income

·       Auction Pricing Strategy

·       Experience of Together Finance for bridging

·       Experiences with Serco and typical disputes over property condition

·       Purchase of a six-house portfolio from a retiring landlor

·       Tag-team strategy for maximizing portfolio deal value

·       Disposal & Monetization of portfolio

·       Critical importance of cash flow management

·       Tension between speed, price, and certainty in property transaction

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Six-Property Portfolio: The Numbers

Overall Purchase:

  • Price: £580,000
  • Done up  value: £900,000


Properties 1-4: Auction Trades 

  • Property 1:
    • PP 62K
    • Sold: 92K
    • Profit:  30K
  • Properties 2 & 3
    • PP: 80K each
    • Sold: 110K each
    • Profit: 60K
  • Property 4
    • PP: 80K
    • Sold: 97K
    • Profit: 17K
  • TOTAL profit from four auction trades: About £107,000


Property 5: Flip (Reconfigured from Two-Bed to Three-Bed)

  • PP: 80K
  • Sold for 167K 
  • Profit 32K


Property 6: Converted to Six-Bed HMO (Social Housing)

  • Purchase cost: Bought for 107K
  • Refurb cost: 100K
  • Profit: 53K

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