by Pawel Konrad | Sep 23, 2026 | HMO Guide
Most investors buying in Stoke-on-Trent do the obvious thing: buy a terrace, let it to one household, bank a respectable single-let yield and move on. Nothing wrong with that — but it leaves the best part of Stoke’s numbers on the table. The city has two things...
by Pawel Konrad | Sep 22, 2026 | Lease Options
The short version: Bradford is one of the most affordable cities in England — a typical terrace still changes hands for well under the national average. Yet the deposit-and-mortgage gap still shuts thousands of would-be buyers out. Rent-to-own and lease options can...
by Pawel Konrad | Sep 17, 2026 | BMV Investing
The short version: the average Coventry home now sells for around a quarter of a million pounds, and its average rental yield is thin. Buy at the average price and you earn the average return. The investors who make Coventry work buy below market and recycle their...
by Pawel Konrad | Sep 16, 2026 | Lease Options
If you rent in Nottingham and feel like the ladder keeps moving up a rung every time you get close, you are not imagining it. The good news: getting onto it in 2026 is less about earning a fortune and more about knowing which route fits your situation. Let’s...
by Pawel Konrad | Sep 15, 2026 | Market Update
Open any “best buy-to-let hotspots” list and the North looks like a gold rush: Sunderland, Bradford, Middlesbrough, “8–10% yields”. Then you run the actual numbers for this quarter and the average home in those same towns yields under 6...