Welcome to Inside Property Investing!

Inside Property Investing was started by us, Mike & Victoria Stenhouse, to document the ups and downs of creating our property portfolio. We’ve gone from living on building sites and working all hours to sailing the world on our floating home – all thanks to property investing.

We now want to help you navigate the UK property investment world – setting the right goals, understanding the different investment strategies, and building a portfolio to help you achieve financial freedom!

OUR PODCAST

Learn from the best in the industry

Inside Property Investing is one of the original UK property podcasts, meaning we have a backlog of valuable free content covering every aspect of investing in the UK property market.

Every week we bring you an exclusive interview with an inspiring property investor to help you understand how to succeed in growing your own property business.

As well as that, Mike & Victoria regularly share the successes and struggles of their own property business – growing a team, growing a portfolio, and running it all remotely whilst travelling the world.

Latest Episodes

354: Is now a good time to invest in the UK property market?

August 31, 2021

353: Can you really become financially free from property?

August 23, 2021

352: Discovering a £600/month addition to our latest HMO project

August 17, 2021

351: 5 steps to your most productive 90 days ever

August 9, 2021

Property Investing With Passion

Mike & Victoria Stenhouse

Discover over 300+ podcast episodes to learn from

What do you want to learn about?

In addition to our weekly property podcast, we’re slowly building out our blog with free guides to all aspects of property investing. New categories will be added below as they’re released.

Strategy Definition

Picking the perfect property investment strategy is unique to your own circumstances and goals, but understanding the pros and cons of each is the best starting point.

Finance & Investors

Money is one of the 3 essential resources we need to succeed in property investment. Whether it's your own, a bank's, or from private investors, we break it all down for you here.

What do you want to learn about?

Inside Property Investing is one of the original UK property podcasts, meaning we have a backlog of valuable free content covering every aspect of investing in the UK property market. Every week we bring you an exclusive interview with an inspiring property investor to help you understand how to succeed in growing your own property business. As well as that, Mike & Victoria regularly share the successes and struggles of their own property business – growing a team, growing a portfolio, and running it all remotely whilst travelling the world.

Goal Setting

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Strategy Definition

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Sourcing

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Purchasing

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Finance & Investors

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Managing Renovations

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Property Management

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Business Development

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Ready to
dive deeper?

As well as the wealth of free content available on our podcast and blog, we create a range of guides and tools to help you build a deeper understanding of different strategies and start to build your own portfolio. Feel free to download our most popular guides below, or click ‘View All Guides’ to see all of the free tools that are available for you.

Introduction to HMO Investing

Ready to find out if HMO investing is right for you? This guide shares an introduction to the market, case studies and answers to our most frequently asked questions.

30+ Property Tasks to Outsource

Being an investor doesn’t mean doing everything yourself – the quicker you bring on a team the quicker you can grow. Here’s where we suggest getting help early on.

Financial Goal Setting Guide

Setting goals is the first step to success, so before you jump in to your first deal this guide will help make sure you’re on the right path to the life you want to lead.

Discover all of our free tools & resources

Connect With Us &
Follow Our Journey

One things we’re passionate about (you might have already realised this by now) is getting our hands dirty with our own projects to practice what we preach and keep our own knowledge up to date. Sharing both the ups and the downs of these projects means that you can learn from what has gone well, avoid what goes wrong, and take inspiration and ideas from our strategies, interior designs, and business model.

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Where’s your happy place? We’ve been lucky eno

Where’s your happy place? We’ve been lucky enough to have two trips to the mountains in the past couple of weeks, and it got us thinking… we love summers on the boat, but not so much winters in Stockport.
So a new goal is to head to the mountains for ‘at least a month, up to a season’ in the next couple of years.
And of course, keep the business growing whilst we do so.
Location freedom is one of the 3 pillars of freedom we encourage everyone to plan for (the other two being time freedom and financial freedom). So where would be on your hit list to disappear for a month or more?
Where would you go if you had a property business that could be run from anywhere?
And if you’re a skier, are there any resorts you think would make a great location for a longer stay?
#digitalnomad #propertynomad #propertyinvestment #propertydevelopment #ukpropertyinvestment #buytoletproperty #locationfreedom

Tomorrow we’re heading skiing (late in the seaso

Tomorrow we’re heading skiing (late in the season I know!) which reminded me of this pic I took a couple weeks back when we were in the Italian mountains for a friend’s wedding (best wedding setting every BTW!).
When you’re starting out in property the first thing you need to get good at is sourcing deals. That gets you to a certain stage before your own capital runs out (happens to pretty much everyone at same stage) and then raising finance becomes the next skill to focus on. Once you nail these, most other tasks you can rely on others for.
But if you really want to scale, there’s a 3rd skill you need to develop - managing people. Without relying on other people you’ll get burnt out and/or stall your growth.
It doesn’t need to be fancy - freelancers, virtual assistants, contractors, part-timers, consultants, or of course full time employees - but it DOES need effort, otherwise you risk creating even more work for yourself.
Some good tips in this book.
Any book recommendations for this trip? What have you been reading recently?
#lifelonglearner #propertyinvestment #propertyinvestor #propertydevelopment #ukpropertyinvestment #buytoletproperty #buytoletinvestment

Today the lease was finally signed on the retail u

Today the lease was finally signed on the retail unit of our Brewery project.
It’s brings to a close a 2 year effort to bring this amazing building back to life.
We knew it was going to be interesting when we bought it, but it’s become even more than expected.
Yes, financially it’s a bit of a cracker!
But there were a ton of lessons learned that we’ll take forward to our future projects as well.
We’re planning a podcast sharing all the details of #IPIBrewery. And I’d love to answer the questions that you want to hear about.
Would you be interested in a deep dive into this building from start to finish? What parts of the process would you be interested in us digging into? Let me know.
#propertyinvestment #buytolet #buytoletinvestment #ukpropertyinvestment #propertydevelopment #investmentproperty #landlord #ipibrewery

Talk about a glow up✨✨ Swipe to see the befor

Talk about a glow up✨✨
Swipe to see the before ➡️
Bringing New York loft vibes to the Underbanks of Stockport.
Probably one of my favourite transformations yet. I hope you like it?
#beforeandafter #rediscoveringtheunderbanks #ipibrewery #beforeandafterhomeedition #greenkitchen #loftstyleliving #stockport #renovation #howdenskitchen #kitcheninspo #kitchendesign #buytolet #landlord #propertyinvestor #homesunderthehammer #hgtvuk #propertydevelopment #propertydeveloper #exposedbrick #propertymarket #ukpropertymarket #kitchendecor

Are you guilty of any of these? We racked our brai

Are you guilty of any of these? We racked our brains for this week’s podcast to come up with 7 actions most of us can stop doing right now on our projects and notice an immediate uplift in our productivity and project success.
Number 4 is definitely my guilty pleasure. But don’t worry, I’m getting help!
#propertyinvestment #buytolet #ukpropertyinvestment #buytoletinvestment #propertyinvestor #houseflipping #propertyrenovation

Project management isn’t just about getting buil

Project management isn’t just about getting builders to show up on time (or at all!).
For us, good project management starts from the day an offer is accepted and keeps going until we’ve done a full debrief after the dust has settled to understand what can be improved on future projects.
Last week Will and I spent some time at #IPIWashway finalising some tweaks to the layout, and preparing a schedule of works to get priced up by builders.
Will’s only been with us for a year now, but he’s running renovation projects like this one like an absolute boss. With the right systems and processes, it becomes a bit like painting by numbers. There’ll still be problems caused by external factors, but they’re much easier to handle when your internal management is in order!
#propertyinvestment #ukpropertyinvestment #buytoletinvestment #propertydevelopment #buytolet

‘BUY TO LET IS DEAD…’ said nobody ever. At l

‘BUY TO LET IS DEAD…’ said nobody ever. At least not anyone we’d want to take advice from.
Our strategy is almost always to buy and hold. Whether that’s single lets, HMOs serviced accommodation, or commercial property. Holding property is the best way to build long term wealth.
But every once in a while, we'll consider selling. And we're currently listing one of our projects for sale at auction at the end of the month.
Want to know why? Check out the details in the images...
What, if anything, has made you consider selling?
#ukproperty #ukpropertyinvestment #ukpropertymarket #buytolet #buytoletinvestment #hmoproperty #servicedaccommodation #servicedapartments #propertyinvestment #propertyinvestor #propertydevelopment #propertydeveloper #businessgrowth #businessmindset #entrepreneurlife #smallbusinessgrowth #productivity #ukbusiness
#projectmanagement #renovationproject #propertyentrepreneur #investmentproperty

Sad but true… this transformation from ugly duck

Sad but true… this transformation from ugly duckling (>>swipe for before and afters) was our worst deal ever.
We hoped to make 50k with a quick flip but cost overruns and project delays reduced that almost to 0 😭
Would we do it again? Sure! Would we do some things differently? Absolutely.
This week’s podcast is all the lessons we learnt if you want more details. Let me know if you’ve listened already. Did you enjoy?
#ipixsjm #fliporflop #propertyinvesting #propertyinvestment #propertydevelopment #propertydeveloper #propertyinvestor #buytolet #landlord #ukpropertymarket #propertyladder #homesunderthehammer #hgtvuk #propertycouple #beforeandafter #renovation

Last year we finished 3 projects - a 6 bedroom HMO

Last year we finished 3 projects - a 6 bedroom HMO, a quick flip, and 2 serviced apartments. One of them turned out to be our worst deal ever, and it'll be the subject of this week's podcast (that's right - new podcast incoming!)
Ahead of us releasing the episode, can you guess which project we'll be focussing on? The HMO (picture 1), the flip (picture 2) or the SAs (picture 3)?
Despite the issues, there were good lessons to be learnt that we'll be digging into, and sharing what we would do differently next time around to hopefully give a different result. But before we release, let's see if you can guess which property we're talking about...?
#propertydevelopment #propertyinvestment #propertydeveloper #propertyinvestor #buytolet #buytoletinvestment #buytoletproperty #ukproperty #ukpropertymarket #ukpropertyinvestment #ukpropertyinvesting

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