The "Fundamentals of Property Investment" course has 3 components:

Pre-Course Assignment

Prior to the course you are required to complete an on-line investor profile, read a designated investment book and complete some simple financial calculations.

1 day intensive Property Investment Course

The syllabus is designed to give you the necessary tools to make rational and profitable decisions on property investment, minimising risk at all stages. Don't be put off by the technical terms - you will fully understand their meaning and application at the end of the courses.

Sharkwatch Community of Investors

Graduates of our property investment courses, if they wish, become full members of the Sharkwatch Community of Investors, formed in order to support, mentor and assist each other.

Using the latest profiling techniques used in the City and industry, we will analyse your personality and business approach in order to determine your investment risk profile. This will assist you greatly in developing an investment strategy that will work for you. It is completed on-line and discussed at the start of the course with a psychologist, who is an expert in the field of behavioural psychology.

This is an important step in determining your property investment strategy. We are all different, and have different tolerances to risk, different goals and ambitions and different life and financial commitments.

There is no 'one size fits all' approach to property investment.

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The Economics of Successful Property Investing

In order to help you understand the economics of property investing, we will look at –
What economic factors make property prices increase.
Macro-economic drivers of house prices, such as inflation, interest rates, unemployment, real earnings, regional development, multiplier and accelerator effects on income and investment and hence property prices.

• How to discover, and then take advantage of, property hot spots.
• Simple financial forecasting methods.
• How to value a property investment - am I paying too much?
• How to work out the true market price - and then buy below market value
• Simple financial calculations to ensure that you are making the best possible property investment.
• How to finance property investment.
• How to use "other people's money" to expand your wealth.

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Property Investment Strategies

Step by step, we will take you through the thought processes and actions involved in creating an investment strategy that is tailored to your own individual property investor profile. We are all different and strategies need to reflect this. One size does not fit all.

We have a specific strategy which is effective in all market conditions, and we will show you examples of both successful and unsuccessful investments.

We also look at other strategies, including "off plan", holiday lets, cash versus growth models, Jet-to-Let, Commercial, Students and Funds using the Investment Possibility Curve. We will show how different strategies suit certain market conditions more than others.

We will also show you how to expand a portfolio indefinitely to maximise wealth.

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This is the key analysis to be undertaken in any market conditions and is used to mitigate and neutralise business, financial and opportunity risk.

We will look at how you can effectively plan for any eventualities using a Risk Management Matrix, and give real life examples of how these plans can be put into practice.

Management of Key Relationships/Negotiating and Psychology

We will give advice on how to strike up and maintain key relationships, looking particularly at -

• How to avoid "The Crowd".
• How to negotiate, and the psychology of negotiating.
• How to manage key stakeholder relationships.