The Complete Guide to Property Investment: How to survive & thrive in the new world of buy-to-let

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Somewhere between 90% and 100% of professional fund managers fail to beat the market consistently over time.

This can change dramatically with sufficient motivation on both sides, although you will not always be in control of the factors at play. Now, for our listeners who are renting, what have you got to say to them? Because they might say, well, one of the reasons I can’t invest is because rents in London are so high. Read my full article on this. Principle #2: Anything you own is either to “Protect” or “Expand” your wealth It’s also worth considering that while there is not a single book that will answer every question and deliver success, part of the research all investors should undertake is to read several books on the subject to ensure they are well-versed in terminology and how they can deliver profits. Are property investment books worth reading?It’s called the definitive guide to letting and managing a rental property and the author Robert Dix makes clear that the book only covers the letting and managing of a property that the investor already owns. Unhelpfully, some of these strategies directly conflict with others. It's not possible for everyone to be correct. This is an audio transcript of the Money Clinic podcast episode: ‘Investment masterclass: ‘Money is basically a fiction’’

Markets are the aggregation of millions of individual human actions. Humans act as a herd, and whip each other into bouts of unjustified mania followed by woe-is-us pessimism. No fancy equations can overcome these tendencies. Yeah, well, first of all, I choose to rent because I like the flexibility, so I fully do so in London, where rents have gone up a lot. So I fully see that side of things as well. But that’s, also kind of shows why I like property as an investment, because the rents do tend to rise in line with earnings and inflation. So you’ve got an income stream that sort of rises over time. In terms of actually getting into property, though, it’s not something to be taken lightly. I challenge you to read one property investment book per month for the next year, and find your new favourite! So the first one is to be aware that saving isn’t gonna get you there. So for the reasons we spoke about, with the fact that you’re guaranteed to lose purchasing power in the bank. So even though you can now actually get something in a bank, you could’ve get, gotten like three and a half per cent . . . Extraordinary Profits from Ordinary Properties: How to Create the Life of Your Dreams with Just Five PropertiesReal Assets, like property, are great because you can’t create them out of thin air. They have real-world utility and intrinsic value regardless of what’s happening in the financial markets.