Beating the Property Clock : How to Understand and Exploit the Property Clock for Maximum Gain

by Ajay Ahuja

It is no longer acceptable for the analysis of the UK property market to be conducted on a national basis. Investors that go beyond this have been making a 'killing' - there is no other word for it! One such investor, a chartered accountant and property guru named Ajay Ahuja, has devised a model that ALL professional investors should follow. It is this model, the property clock, that has taken him from an initial investment of GBP500 to a portfolio of 100 properties worth over GBP6m in less than 5 years. ability to operate to its own fundamentals; the introduction of the buy-to-let mortgage in the late 90s; the propensity of property prices to be volatile; the stable nature of market rents; the ever-existence of bandwagon-type investors. to find each of them; why professional investors sell exclusively in cooling spots; why the owner-occupiers and novice investors are the only ones left in the cold spots; how to calculate the bubble element in any property and why you should buy only properties with a negative bubble that burst in your favour; how to calculate the real value of a property under any environment; how to lock in certain growth by doing nothing; how to lock in certain growth by making the right enhancements and how to quantify the size of the gain.

224 pages, Paperback

First published March 1, 2004