Episode Details

John Howard has completed more than 4,500 property deals across a 40+ year property investing and property development career. Known from Property Elevator and decades in the UK property market, he shares his experience of building, investing, developing and navigating multiple market cycles, including three recessions and changing landlord regulations.

We discuss property investing vs property development and the traits that make you successful in both, how to navigate turbulent property markets, the biggest lesson he’s learnt after thousands of deals, what he would do differently as a landlord today, how the UK property system could improve, the warning signs experienced investors look for before offloading assets, how to develop self awareness in business and where the biggest UK property investment opportunities could be over the next decade.

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00:00 Coming up
00:35  Property Elevator 
02:34 4,500 property deals, how?
04:12 Investor vs developer - what skill sets are needed?
09:54 Property Developer Show & PDBC
11:36 How to navigate turbulent markets
16:20 The #1 lesson from 40+ years in property
26:42 What John would do differently as a landlord today 
33:49 How the UK property system needs to change
39:46 TerraQuest
40:13 What John wish he knew when he first started out  
42:00 Surviving 3 recessions
46:22 The warning signs it’s time to start selling property
50:20 Building self-awareness as an investor
57:34 Where are the biggest opportunities over the next decade:

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