He’s Traded 850+ Properties Over 40 Years! Here’s Everything He Knows | Episode 106: Paul Ribbons

Paul Ribbons has spent four decades investing in UK property as a property trader, buying unmodernised houses on the open market and selling them on at auction. With more than 850 deals completed and two full boom-and-bust cycles behind him, Paul has seen this market from every angle. In this episode, he explains what actually causes a property crash and what four decades of hindsight taught him about reading the market instead of following the crowd.

We get into where prices go next, how stamp duty, affordability changes and government backstops are reshaping demand. He unpacks the "transfer of wealth" behind the buy-to-let boom and the commercial valuation trap catching out boutique HMO investors. Paul also shares his auction playbook and the three things he looks for in every deal, circumstances, timing and leverage.

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00:00 Coming up
00:25 Property market mechanics & the lending shift
04:12 Property Developer Show & PDBC
05:52 Why the 2022 crash never happened
08:39 Is UK property now “too stable"?
11:30 Stamp duty, affordability & government stimulus
16:25 The best long-term play: vanilla buy-to-let
22:35 The boutique lending & commercial valuation trap
25:21 TerraQuest
25:49 Property trading 
38:00 Winning at auction: stock, auctioneer, timing
40:35 Finding deals
48:50 Biggest regret & advice for starting out
51:50 How to get in touch with Paul

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