In today's show, we sit down with Tom Dylan, a full-time property investor based in Manchester.
We have a great and wide-ranging conversation, covering all manner of topics in and around property, business and life.
A successful property investor in his own right, Tom also set up the Cuppa Property Networking & Investing Group, which meets in person and online on a weekly basis.
And Tom is also a fellow podcaster, with the Cuppa Coffee Property Podcast.
Listen to Tom's thoughts, opinions and experiences on: building his portfolio in Manchester and other areas; the amount of legislation seeping into the property world; predictions for market and returns in the future; the eternal supply and demand issue of UK property; and the merits and risks of single-units, HMOs and apartments...
Take everything you think you know about property auctions - too urgent and unpredictable for the buyer, too much money lost for the seller, too much hassle for an estate agent - and throw it out of the window.
Today's guest, Jamie Cooke, one of the Co-Founders of iamproperty, explains how things can, and are, very different.
The UK's largest residential auction provider, now working with over 6,000 estate agencies, and pioneering the Modern Method of Auction, iamproperty has an ecosystem of services that can help solve so many problems for people.
Take the slow and unpredictable world of Private Treaty, and replace it with speed and security.
Take the urgency and fear of an auction window to get your buyer finance in place, and replace it with a measured and achievable breathing space.
Take the agent's hassle of trying to involve an auction house, and replace it with a pleasant and easy relationship.
Take iamproperty...
In today's show we hear from Robin Rivaton, CEO of Stonal, which launched in the UK at the start of the summer following a strong record in France.
Stonal is an AI-powered platform that enables asset owners and managers to make informed decisions based on trustworthy data, helping to preserve and enhance the value of portfolios and ensuring the ongoing liquidity of assets.
The platform provides benefits to asset managers primarily across ESG, data extraction and data quality. Whilst not an AI company, Stonal also uses automation to extract document information and ultimately aims to make real estate a considerably more liquid asset.
Robin already boasts a career of incredible experience. A former Venture Capitalist, a former columnist with the major French newspaper Le Figaro, Robin is very well known on the French PropTech scene, he is the author of 7 books focused on urban challenges, a board member of 7 startups, and he sits as an independent director of 4 property developers and REITs.