This week’s guest on Expat Property Story, (a podcast for expats investing in UK property), is Singapore based expat, Peter Sell, who has practised what I preach!

Well, maybe it’s time to think again about storing your savings in the bank. As I write this in February 2023, a cursory glance at my own bank’s guide to finding an account “that best suits your needs”,

This blog post accompanies Episode 46 of Expat Property Story.

As Season One of my podcast, Expat Property Story, draws to a close after five months and 33 episodes, downloaded in over ninety countries perhaps now is time to reflect on one particular theme that keeps coming up: property education. In this blog, I will revisit this theme within the context of bias.

At the end of my chat with Richard, he kindly offered to answer the questions I didn’t have time to ask him on the day:

As Season One of Expat Property Story draws to a close, it's time to explain the titles of episodes to anyone who hasn't already noticed. Each episode is named after a song and if you go to the episode show notes, you will find a link to a YouTube clip of the song chosen for each guest.

I recently read on a property forum of an eager expat struggling to secure a property sourcer in the UK. His problem wasn't that he couldn't find any, but that he couldn't decide which ones to trust of the hundreds that were offering their services in his Facebook groups after being spooked by some of the horror stories on that forum.

A recent discussion about risk on a well-known property forum revealed that the most prominent risk in the mind of most investors revolves around loan to value. Many investors, and, it seems to me, expats especially, appear to equate low LTV to low risk and high LTV to high risk.

A few months ago, I decided to start a podcast for people like me: expats investing in UK property. Years ago, I considered a career in radio production, making programmes like the BBC’s Crossing Continents, which would combine two of my passions: travel and broadcasting.