From this, you can draw up a shortlist of a few areas to look at in more detail. Your shortlist will depend on your strategy. If you’re looking for dirt-cheap properties that are likely to yield well, the areas that people say “avoid” might be the first you want to explore. If flipping is your strategy, you need an area with high buyer demand – so you’ll be looking for places that families or young couples want to move to. A niche strategy like students or HMOs might take you in a different direction again – with proximity to universities/colleges and transport links respectively being the
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