Introduction
  • What to expect in this property course
  • 7 guiding principles for property assessment
  • Caveat emptor; 'buyer beware'
  • The thing about estate agents...
  • Be clear on your requirements. It helps.
Timings. Buyer and rental market 'temperature'
  • 18 year property cycle
  • Buying: Checking capital growth.
  • Buying & renting: How hot is the market?
Area assesment
  • Assessing capital growth
  • Is the area safe?
  • What people live here?
  • What are the local amenities?
  • Green spaces & air quality
  • What is the travel time?
Google maps - street assessment
  • Get the Patma chrome addon
  • Find the post code & property number
  • Guiding principles for street assessment
  • Google maps historic snapshots
  • Street view: Property exterior condition
  • Street view: Urban decay, rubbish, bad roads
Location assessment
  • Privacy. How overlooked?
  • Smells
  • Noise pollution
  • Electricity sub stations & pylons
  • Crime
  • Main roads & motorways
  • Industrial
  • Parking
  • Flooding
  • Air pollution
  • Mobile signal & broadband speed
  • Ex mining
  • Planning applications
Assessing the age of the property
  • Why does property age matter?
  • Property checker. Useful tool.
  • 1900 to date. Building tech changes things.
Space optimisation
  • Floor plans, more important than you might think
  • Floorplans - apartments
  • Floorplans - kitchens
Finally...Let's assess some locations!
  • Property in a very bad area.
  • Property in a middle-class area
  • Property in a high capital growth area
  • Well done!