In Episode 99 of Expat Property Story, my UK property podcast for expats investing in the UK, I interviewed Carly Houston, who has created two Aprthotels with her business partner in Brighton.

Based on my conversation with Carly, here are the top ten things you need to do to start an Aparthotel business in the UK …

Inspired by an interview with Sam Cooke of Blue Bricks Magazine for my property podcast Expat Property Story, I asked Chat GPT to interview me as an Expat UK Property investor

To celebrate our 100th episode, I reflect on the story so far and offer a compilation of ten of my favourite clips from the first 99 episodes that collectively sum up the story of our property podcast so far.

Reading books may not be the top of your agenda. But unless you’re happy swapping your time for money, then perhaps it should be.

All our blogs so far have been about buying UK property as an expat, but in this article, we tell the story of how we bought an off-plan apartment in Hong Kong in 2015 and watched it rise in value only for the USA - China Trade War and Hong Kong protests affect the Hong Kong property market. Now we were trying to catch a falling knife.

We still managed to make £100K in three years which helped fund our purchase of 3 students HMOs and scale our UK property portfolio.

You won’t find this in many UK Property Investment books or through any of the UK Property Investment companies! But getting an expat mortgage for the UK is one of the most difficult aspects of building a UK property portfolio from abroad. Keeping on top of your credit file and credit report is therefore really important. This blog tells the story of an Expat Mortgage disaster.

So you’ve educated yourself via UK property investment books, property podcasts and forums.

You’ve found yourself an expat mortgage broker, been through the arduous task of getting an expat mortgage and even bought yourself a UK buy-to-let or two.

And now you want to speed up your expat property story. You’re looking for Serviced Accommodation opportunities.

Great UK property deals don’t come along every day, but when they do, you have to be ready to fill your boots! Find out the factors that enabled us to fill ours.

Spoiler alert you probably won’t be able to make 23 Million!

A recurring theme from recent podcast guests has been that the days of the part-time landlord are numbered. In days gone by, so called ‘hobby landlords’ could buy one or two buy-to-let properties and leave them in the background while…