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1. The 3+1 Series presents
UK Property Investors Guide
2023
A simple guide to buying and managing investment property in the UK.
By Brett Alegre-Wood MARLA MNAEA
Author of the 2010 Peoples Book Prize winning 'The 3+1 Plan'

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UK property has always been a favourite spot
for investors. The United Kingdom provides an
excellent opportunity for your core investment
strategy.
So what does "effortless" mean?
It’s based on my "Set and Forget Philosophy,"
which means that everything you do in property
should be set up in order to forget about it on a
day-to-day basis for periods of two years. Why
two years? Well, this is enough time for the
market to change and short enough to make
positive decisions.
Chapter 1:
How to achieve Effortless
UK Property
Investment

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You see, I've always run my business as if I were managing my own portfolio,
the tools, the advice, the property, and the services are all fashioned in the very
same way that I run my personal portfolio. I’ve always had a career outside of my
portfolio. So being a passive investor and NOT a stressed landlord was the most
important thing.
I’m originally from Australia and have lived in UK until 2012 then in Singapore
until 2022, when Arlene and I packed up, put our 4 kids into homeschooling, to
begin a 2 year world tour. So you might say that after 10 years of living abroad,
I know a thing or two about being an expat, living in Asia, and not being in the
same country as my property.
First and foremost, you need to trust your chosen partners. However, I find that
most of the time, you choose agents based on their proximity, the fact that they
are "Johnny on the spot," or, as with many relationships, a word-of-mouth referral.
In fact, you’d be surprised how many times we can beat their prices, property
options, terms, and level of service, often creating less work for you and providing
a much more joined-up experience for your portfolio.
You see, I train my team to cover everything for you, you might see it as a full
service Agent, we see it as 'effortless property investment and management'
That’s exactly what we aim to provide. We do the following:
• Researchthebestareaswiththebestfundamentalsandongoingregeneration.
• Source from a variety of recognised and proven developers that practise
incremental price increases throughout the build program.
• Negotiate the best prices on the best plots on the earliest phases.
• Structuring by an expert each property and your portfolio.
• Mortgages by specialist brokers for your property and portfolio.
• Conveyance by specialist new build solicitors to ensure all your bases are
covered.

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• Lettings that are guaranteed to find a tenant minimising any void period.
• Management covering everything including being your address and paying
any bills for you.
• Compliance & Licensing - with over 170 bits of legislation don’t risk it with
an unqualified, unregulated agent.
• Resales - when that time comes, get the best price and the certainty that
your property sells.
• Reviews-matchyourstrategytothemarket,expandyourportfolio,increase
your cash flow or reduce your expenses or debt.
• Bespoke - giving you the service and support you personally need rather
than a we serve the developer mentality.
So whatever your needs, we’ve got the qualifications, experience, systems,
relationships, and history that you need for an effortless experience. We're
perfectly suited to investors looking to invest in UK property.
Chat with the team about how you can get started with or expand your existing
UK portfolio.
Live with passion,
Brett
PS. Want to see our property - CLICK HERE

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I love Regeneration!
I'veseenitworkoverandoveragainfor3decades,
in fact, I've been fortunate enough to pick 8 of
the last 8 London areas that have boomed due
to regeneration, many of our landlord's have
massively benefited from this. Oh and we've
been involved in the past 5 Manchester and 3
Birmingham areas the same.
Don't think for a minute this is some sort
of gift that I have, the gift is understanding
fundamentals and the effects of large scale
regeneration on them. I'd love to teach you the
simple steps to picking them repeatedly.
Chapter 2:
This One Choice
Guarantees Growth
in Your UK Property!

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A great example of this is Royal Arsenal In Woolwich, our investors started buying
1 beds at £187,000 in 2010 they were at £494,000 in 2022. That's regeneration
working in addition to the usual market capital growth.
What are the skills in picking regeneration areas, it's all about picking fundamentals.
I'm talking about shops, schools, transport links, major employment, and major
investment, all the things that go into an area and make up its fundamentals.
Fundamentals to give you certainty that the price of your property and the rent
you receive will continue to increase over time.
So why is regeneration such a damn good strategy?
Picking an area where the fundamentals are profoundly changing gives you the
best chance to beat the market averages.

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You end up with a property in a great area where rents and values have increased,
and then you have the choice to either ride the high or sell out when they plateau.
Then take the profit and reinvest it into a new regeneration area.
It's a simple strategy we've been repeating successfully over and over since 2004
(well, even longer if you count my Aussie experience).
You see the strategy is so simple that anyone can do it, no matter whether you
live in Kuwait or Kathmandu, and no matter how much time you don’t have to
commit to this.
In any case, we research and pick the areas, then negotiate with developers for
you, doing it all for you and making it as effortless as possible!
Add to that our relationships with various large-scale developers who are
redeveloping and drastically changing specific areas, and you have a winning
formula for any investor.
So, if you want to benefit from UK regeneration, if you want to benefit from our
relationships, if you want to benefit from the massive change in fundamentals that
is regeneration, then talk to the team and go over the next areas of regeneration
that are coming up.
Live with passion,
Brett
PS Here’s a list of the previous regeneration areas we researched, sold, and
clients made money: Woolwich (2010), Southall (2012), Elephant & Castle
(2011), Acton (2011), Stratford (2011), Greenwich Peninsula (2009), Shoreditch
(2005), East London (2009), Royal Docks (2012), Reading (2005), Canary Wharf
(2004), Watford (2020) - Click for our latest areas - CLICK HERE

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Chapter 3:
How To Avoid Buying Someone
Else Problems in UK Property
Property in the UK is great, but not if you buy someone
else’s problem!
I've been involved with New Build and Off Plan property
for over 25 years initially as a mortgage broker financing
New Builds and then as an Estate Agent & Buyer’s Agent
whose business has sold upwards of £1.3 billion of UK
property.
New build off plan is a fantastic way of doing property,
it affords you the ability to sit back and have an almost
effortlessexperience;there'snorenovating;there'sgenerally
no issues with the property for the first few years.
So you end up with a new property that, if bought well, can
see a great amount of growth as the area settles in and its
renewed fundamentals take off.
Off Plan offers an even greater benefit and that is the
benefit of controlling a property having only put down a
small deposit of say 10% - 20%.

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Chosen well the property increases in value during the build program and you're
sitting on significant equity by the time completion comes.This is, of course,
subject to the market cycle.

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Because these properties were built with the latest technology, energy efficiency,
and sustainability in mind, we rarely need to think about changes that the
government might require because they are already compliant.
Instead, you can relax and enjoy the fruits of your decision. It’s effortless, really!
If you're interested in learning more about off plan new build property, give us a
call, sit down, and run through a few live examples to see the level of detail our 2
Year Cash Flow Worksheets provide and the opportunity that is offered with our
unique approach to new build off plan property.
Live with passion,
Brett
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