How I make money in property when others hesitate.
I’ve traded property through every type of market for nearly four decades. This page shows, with real examples, how we spot opportunities others miss — and why the right deal often looks “too hard” to everyone else.
I didn’t set out to become a property trader.
I started as an estate agent in the 1980s and worked through the brutal years of the early 1990s. What I noticed back then was simple: the people who were consistently successful — not loud, not flashy — were involved in property.
In 1997, I had the opportunity to work with a developer on a property in East London. It turned out to be one of the worst purchases you could imagine. The property was wrecked. The cost of works would have exceeded its finished value.
Out of necessity rather than strategy, we sold it at auction.
It sold for significantly more than we’d paid.
That moment changed how I saw property — and how I’ve traded ever since.
I’m often asked what I actually do in property — not in theory, not in soundbites, but in practice.
This isn’t theory.
It’s simply how opportunities show up, why most people miss them, and what I pay attention to instead.
So for clarity
This is what I do.
I buy properties that require work and place them straight into auction for a fast, clean exit. — like this one in Ashford.
Ashford
Bought: £250,000
Sold (auction): £305,000
Time held: 5 weeks
This property had been on the market for some time. Multiple buyers had tried and failed to secure a mortgage. The issue wasn’t how it looked — it was a specific problem with the loft insulation that made lenders nervous. That hesitation created the opportunity.
The same thinking applies even when the issue is more obvious.
We found this property in Swindon after it had been sitting around for months, not because it looked attractive, but because most people didn’t know how to deal with the problem.
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Swindon​
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Bought: £185,000
Sold (auction): £218,000
Time held: under 2 months
​​This property we bought after failing to sell due to a visible crack in the kitchen wall. It was about to come back to market when we stepped in, exchanged quickly, and placed it into the next available auction.
This deal was brought to us by a 23-year-old participant on Find It, Fund It, Flip It.
The property was a probate that had failed survey due to its condition and had been sitting on the market for some time.
It looked worse than it actually was. Once the circumstances were understood, the opportunity became obvious.
First deal — aged 23
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Bought: £250,000
Sold (auction): £347,000
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This isn’t one deal.
Over nearly four decades in property I’ve been involved in hundreds of transactions — buying, selling, and trading property through every type of market.
The examples above aren’t unusual.
They’re simply the kind of opportunities that appear when you understand the circumstances that reveal them.
They weren’t found by scrolling harder, making endless offers, or buying what simply looked cheap.
They came from understanding what to buy, why it would work, and where it should be placed once secured.
You can’t just buy anything and throw it into auction.
Auction demand changes. Buyer appetite changes. The same property can perform very differently depending on timing and placement.
This is exactly what I will teach on a one-day programme called Find It, Fund It, Flip It.
I don’t teach theory.
I show you how to decide what the market actually wants, how to uncover those opportunities before they become competitive, how to negotiate them properly, and where to place them so they exit cleanly.
That’s the difference between thinking “I could do that” and doing it consistently.
What you’ll learn at Find It, Fund It, Flip It
At this one-day training, I’ll show you:
• How to identify the circumstances that create opportunity
• The technical indicators I look for online
• How to extract the information agents don’t normally volunteer
• When to walk away — and when to move quickly
• How deals like the ones above actually come together
This isn’t theory.
It’s the same process that has led to hundreds of transactions over nearly four decades.
Want to learn how to spot opportunities like these?
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