The document provides information about the Scottish Letting Day 2019 conference and exhibition, including details about sessions, speakers, and sponsors. It includes an agenda with sessions available to attend on topics like working with Universal Credit, energy performance certificates, and completing tax returns. One session provides tips from a self-made property investor, including strategies for success like getting rich slowly, understanding numbers, and leveraging debt. Another session discusses understanding Universal Credit, with information on resources available for landlords.
5. • audience reach of over 3 million visitors per year*
• over 400 agents**
• advertising >50,000 properties per year**
• Scotland’s leading residential lettings site***
*Google Analytics **Citylets ***
6. Citylets market reports
• produced quarterly for 13 years
• analysis draws on large volume
and breadth of data, around 50k
properties per year
• statistical expertise built up over
many years
• Citylets figures uniquely ‘mix
adjusted’ at the macro level
• accepted by the industry as a key
barometer of the lettings market
7. The Citylets Datahub
• new self serve system for property rental data
• displays report essentials - average quarterly
rents and TTLs – but over longer time periods of
up to 10 years
• introduces context such as comparison with CPI
and overlaid with other financial indices such as
ROS, interest rates
• ‘Open Source’ approach to data providing
flexibility to produce and export charts in
seconds
• FREE online 24/7 at citylets.co.uk/datahub
21. • get more landlord leads from your website
• powered by trusted data
• sensible valuations range with context
• average rent & TTL figures provided
• manages landlord expectations
• connects with Optilet
• drives uplift in landlord enquiries
• positions agent as the expert
Citylets valuation tool
See a live demo of the valuation tool at:
xyzlettings.citylets.co.uk/
22. When clicked the landlord will be taken to the valuation
tool maintaining the look and feel of your own website
28. Sessions now available to attend
Scottish Letting Day
Showdome
(current room): Top tips from a self-made property investor
Biosphere Blue: Understanding the private residential tenancy
Ozone: Demystifying legionella &
A year in the life of a tenancy deposit scheme
Biosphere Green: Tribunal know how for letting agents
4D Cinema: Informing research to shape the future of private renting
Salisbury Suite: The role of the CMA in regulating letting agents
29. Top tips from a self-made
property investor
Kirsty Leonard,
Leonard Property Group
Scottish Letting Day
Scottish Letting Day 2019
31. WHO AM
I?
Self-made full time
property investor,
developer &
business owner
Property & Business
Coach
32. MY JOURNEY
➤ First property Dec 2014
➤ 2015 - Flip
➤ 2015/16 – Education & first
BTL’s
➤ 17/19 - Legacy Mentor
➤ Now:
➤ Own a multi-million £
property portfolio
➤ Raise creative funding
➤ Private Coach
➤ Source property to others
33. MY
PORTFOLI0
➤ Scotland & N. England
➤ BTL
➤ Social Housing
➤ HMO’s
➤ Flips
➤ Conversions/developmen
ts
➤ Comm to Resi
➤ Sell off plan
➤ Asset stripping
34. MY TOP
10
Top tips for success in
property market
Future of investing in
Scotland
35. WHAT DO I BUY?
• Distressed property
• Add value
• Leave as little £ in as possible
• Be the best – standard &
value
37. TIP 1 – GET RICH
SLOWLY
➤ Property is no longer a ‘hobby’
investment
➤ Property is dangerous if you
consider it get rich quick
➤ Impatience & inexperience
leads to bad deals & bad
decisions
40. COMPOUNDING
• BENEFIT OF LEVERAGE
• BENEFIT OF TIME
• BENEFIT OF EXPERIENCE
• BENEFIT OF EDUCATION
41. TIP 2 STRATEGY FIRST, NOT PROPERTY FIRST
➤ Property is a business – Business only works with a plan
➤ Understand WHY you are buying property – What is it doing for
you?
➤ Do you understand your goals? Personal & Business
➤ Your goals will dictate the appropriate strategy for you
➤ E.G. Passive income vs. Large cash sums
➤ Timeline?
➤ Cost out your ‘dream life’ and work backwards
➤ WRITE YOUR GOALS DOWN
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46. TIP 3 BUY TO DEMAND
➤ Understand your geographical investment area
➤ Who is your end user / what are they looking for?
➤ Who is your competition and what are they providing?
➤ What prices are being achieved and how quickly?
➤ What do you need to do to meet that demand?
➤ Always be re-checking demand and keep abreast of market
changes
47. TIP 4 – UNDERSTAND YOUR NUMBERS
➤ Monthly Operating Expenses (MOE)
➤ Understand your mortgage options
➤ Profit margin calculations
➤ Cost of money (COM)
➤ Return on investment (ROI)
➤ Understand your costs and work backwards to a purchase price
that works for you
48. RENOVATION COSTS
➤ Educate yourself
➤ Work with your builder
➤ Work with quotes not estimates
➤ Take responsibility of understanding
49.
50. TIP 5 – HAVE A POSITIVE DEBT MINDSET
➤ Debt is your friend
➤ What is your debt mindset – challenge it
➤ Leverage in property & business is everything
➤ Leverage:
➤ Other people’s experience
➤ Other people’s knowledge
➤ Other people’s money (OPM)
51. DEBT MINDSET - LEVERAGE
➤ Understand your Cost of Money (leverage) vs earning potential
➤ Use OPM – it will get you much further, much faster
➤ OPM allows growth beyond your savings account
➤ Mortgage leverage (institutional OPM) – Comfortable
➤ Private finance (e.g. Angel investors) – Get comfortable
➤ Do you treat taking money from private individuals differently from institutional
money?
52. TIP 6 – PREPARE FOR THE STORM
➤ Treat property as a business
➤ Must understand the market fluctuations
➤ There is a strategy for every market – a fall in one
sees a rise in another
➤ Invest understanding this, and have exit
strategies ready
➤ Stress test – we do deals with contingencies &
test at higher interest rates
➤ Low interest rates & favourable terms won’t last
forever
53. WE BUY FOR INCOME NOW
➤ Don’t invest speculatively
➤ Ensure your investment will perform despite market changes
54. TIP 7 – UNDERSTAND LEGISLATION
➤Knowledge is power
➤ Clause 24
➤ Ltd company purchases & access to lenders
➤ LBTT changes (stamp duty)
➤ 6 month mortgage refinance ‘rule’
➤ Interest rate changes
➤ PRA – Mortgage regulation changes
➤ Increasing tenant rights e.g. PRT
➤ Homeless legislation requirements – Changes demand
56. TIP 9 – FOCUS ON YOU
➤ Property world can be a strange place – people competing for attention
➤ Always present the honest you – don’t be afraid to ask for help
➤ Go against the masses
➤ Don’t compete with others, focus on you
➤ But, do model yourself on someone who is where you want to be
57. TIP 10 – DON’T BE A LONE RANGER
➤ Your network = your net worth
➤ Law of averages - your income is the average of the top 5
people you spend time with - Jim Rhon
➤ Pay your advisors well – Robert Kyosaki
➤ Comes back to leverage:
➤ Use other people’s knowledge
➤ Use other people’s experience
➤ Learn from other people’s mistakes..!
59. Educate yourself
Use OPM – We offer 10%
p.a. return
Use other people’s
knowledge
Use other people’s
experience
Learn from other people’s
mistakes
Work alongside people who
are better than you
WORK SMART, NOT
HARD
63. Sessions now available to attend
Scottish Letting Day
Showdome
(current room): Working positively with Universal Credit
Biosphere Blue: Unwrapping the energy performance certificate
Ozone: Changing the referencing process forever (Vouch) &
What’s next? (PayProp)
Biosphere Green: Letting question time
4D Cinema: A guide to completing your tax return
Salisbury Suite: Preventing HR headaches
65. d she will establish contact for you and make
sure you have the relevant escalation routes
for your area.
Understanding Universal Credit
Visit the landlord section on this website
which gives more information about Universal Credit.
Click on the landlord box, for landlord videos and top tips:
www.understandinguniversalcredit.gov.uk
https://youtu.be/t1I_MKT-KGg
For help with individual cases and to find your local partnership
manager please email: louise.cook1@dwp.gov.uk
66. d she will establish contact for you and make
sure you have the relevant escalation routes
for your area.
Understanding Universal Credit
View Universal Credit video:
https://youtu.be/t1I_MKT-KGg
67. d she will establish contact for you and make
sure you have the relevant escalation routes
for your area.
Understanding Universal Credit
Visit the landlord section on this website
which gives more information about Universal Credit.
Click on the landlord box, for landlord videos and top tips:
www.understandinguniversalcredit.gov.uk
For help with individual cases and to find your local partnership
manager please email: louise.cook1@dwp.gov.uk
68.
69. d she will establish contact for you and make
sure you have the relevant escalation routes
for your area.
Understanding Universal Credit
Visit the landlord section on this website
which gives more information about Universal Credit.
Click on the landlord box, for landlord videos and top tips:
www.understandinguniversalcredit.gov.uk
For help with individual cases and to find your local partnership
manager please email: louise.cook1@dwp.gov.uk
70. Scottish Letting Day 2019
Lunch is now served in the Stratosphere area
Programme resumes 13.15pm
Please visit our exhibitors’ stands
Scottish Letting Day
Sponsors:
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For those of you who may not know, whilst Scotland focused, Citylets is the UK’s certified no 1 residential lettings site in the UK according to web authorities such as Experian Hitwise. The web is a mature and audited medium, similar to Rajar for radio or ABC for print, and all Citylets product information on visitor traffic is referenced to source.
The growth of Citylets and the PRS in general is nicely encapsulated in this chart. Using Q1 2007 as base, our visitor traffic is now 4 times bigger. Citylets had been going for 8 years by 2007 and we were considered a mature company then so this is a meaningful base that underlines the growth of both the sector and Citylets market share. Citylets invested heavily through the credit crunch as the market turned to lettings and the results are there to be seen today.
No need to read bullet points, most of which has now been said.
Citylets has produced quarterly market reports for the last 7 years which is where cut our teeth on market analysis….the latest report for Q3 2013 was I trust on the chairs after the break. Specifically we look at rent values, growth and time to let as well as a focus on topical issues of the period.
The growth of Citylets and the PRS in general is nicely encapsulated in this chart. Using Q1 2007 as base, our visitor traffic is now 4 times bigger. Citylets had been going for 8 years by 2007 and we were considered a mature company then so this is a meaningful base that underlines the growth of both the sector and Citylets market share. Citylets invested heavily through the credit crunch as the market turned to lettings and the results are there to be seen today.
No need to read bullet points, most of which has now been said.
The growth of Citylets and the PRS in general is nicely encapsulated in this chart. Using Q1 2007 as base, our visitor traffic is now 4 times bigger. Citylets had been going for 8 years by 2007 and we were considered a mature company then so this is a meaningful base that underlines the growth of both the sector and Citylets market share. Citylets invested heavily through the credit crunch as the market turned to lettings and the results are there to be seen today.
No need to read bullet points, most of which has now been said.
The growth of Citylets and the PRS in general is nicely encapsulated in this chart. Using Q1 2007 as base, our visitor traffic is now 4 times bigger. Citylets had been going for 8 years by 2007 and we were considered a mature company then so this is a meaningful base that underlines the growth of both the sector and Citylets market share. Citylets invested heavily through the credit crunch as the market turned to lettings and the results are there to be seen today.
No need to read bullet points, most of which has now been said.
The growth of Citylets and the PRS in general is nicely encapsulated in this chart. Using Q1 2007 as base, our visitor traffic is now 4 times bigger. Citylets had been going for 8 years by 2007 and we were considered a mature company then so this is a meaningful base that underlines the growth of both the sector and Citylets market share. Citylets invested heavily through the credit crunch as the market turned to lettings and the results are there to be seen today.
No need to read bullet points, most of which has now been said.
The growth of Citylets and the PRS in general is nicely encapsulated in this chart. Using Q1 2007 as base, our visitor traffic is now 4 times bigger. Citylets had been going for 8 years by 2007 and we were considered a mature company then so this is a meaningful base that underlines the growth of both the sector and Citylets market share. Citylets invested heavily through the credit crunch as the market turned to lettings and the results are there to be seen today.
No need to read bullet points, most of which has now been said.
The growth of Citylets and the PRS in general is nicely encapsulated in this chart. Using Q1 2007 as base, our visitor traffic is now 4 times bigger. Citylets had been going for 8 years by 2007 and we were considered a mature company then so this is a meaningful base that underlines the growth of both the sector and Citylets market share. Citylets invested heavily through the credit crunch as the market turned to lettings and the results are there to be seen today.
No need to read bullet points, most of which has now been said.
The growth of Citylets and the PRS in general is nicely encapsulated in this chart. Using Q1 2007 as base, our visitor traffic is now 4 times bigger. Citylets had been going for 8 years by 2007 and we were considered a mature company then so this is a meaningful base that underlines the growth of both the sector and Citylets market share. Citylets invested heavily through the credit crunch as the market turned to lettings and the results are there to be seen today.
No need to read bullet points, most of which has now been said.
The growth of Citylets and the PRS in general is nicely encapsulated in this chart. Using Q1 2007 as base, our visitor traffic is now 4 times bigger. Citylets had been going for 8 years by 2007 and we were considered a mature company then so this is a meaningful base that underlines the growth of both the sector and Citylets market share. Citylets invested heavily through the credit crunch as the market turned to lettings and the results are there to be seen today.
No need to read bullet points, most of which has now been said.
The growth of Citylets and the PRS in general is nicely encapsulated in this chart. Using Q1 2007 as base, our visitor traffic is now 4 times bigger. Citylets had been going for 8 years by 2007 and we were considered a mature company then so this is a meaningful base that underlines the growth of both the sector and Citylets market share. Citylets invested heavily through the credit crunch as the market turned to lettings and the results are there to be seen today.
No need to read bullet points, most of which has now been said.
The growth of Citylets and the PRS in general is nicely encapsulated in this chart. Using Q1 2007 as base, our visitor traffic is now 4 times bigger. Citylets had been going for 8 years by 2007 and we were considered a mature company then so this is a meaningful base that underlines the growth of both the sector and Citylets market share. Citylets invested heavily through the credit crunch as the market turned to lettings and the results are there to be seen today.
No need to read bullet points, most of which has now been said.
The growth of Citylets and the PRS in general is nicely encapsulated in this chart. Using Q1 2007 as base, our visitor traffic is now 4 times bigger. Citylets had been going for 8 years by 2007 and we were considered a mature company then so this is a meaningful base that underlines the growth of both the sector and Citylets market share. Citylets invested heavily through the credit crunch as the market turned to lettings and the results are there to be seen today.
No need to read bullet points, most of which has now been said.
The growth of Citylets and the PRS in general is nicely encapsulated in this chart. Using Q1 2007 as base, our visitor traffic is now 4 times bigger. Citylets had been going for 8 years by 2007 and we were considered a mature company then so this is a meaningful base that underlines the growth of both the sector and Citylets market share. Citylets invested heavily through the credit crunch as the market turned to lettings and the results are there to be seen today.
No need to read bullet points, most of which has now been said.
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Started very late 2014 - 4 half years ago!
Caroline was my basic speaker
Now : Private Coach
Legacy Mentor
1 bed to 2 bed
2 bed to 3 bed
1 flat to 2 flats
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