Profiles Archive - Property Portfolio Investor https://propertyportfolioinvestor.co.uk/profiles/ UK property investment magazine Fri, 10 Jul 2026 19:59:48 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 https://propertyportfolioinvestor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Property_Portfolio-Investor_Logo-150x150.jpg Profiles Archive - Property Portfolio Investor https://propertyportfolioinvestor.co.uk/profiles/ 32 32 Geoff Marlow: ‘Three cottages out-earn my teaching pension, and I feel slightly guilty’ https://propertyportfolioinvestor.co.uk/profiles/marlow-southwold-holiday-let-investment/ Fri, 10 Jul 2026 19:59:48 +0000 https://propertyportfolioinvestor.co.uk/?post_type=profile&p=2122

Geoff Marlow spent 34 years teaching history in Ipswich and planned a quiet retirement. Instead the 68 year old runs three Airbnb cottages in Southwold, one of the most contested holiday let markets in England, where second-home premiums and local resentment run high. Marlow says his holiday let investment now out-earns his pension, but the… Read more →

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Sarah Okafor: ‘The landlord exodus is the biggest buying opportunity of my career’ https://propertyportfolioinvestor.co.uk/profiles/okafor-hmo-investment-strategy/ Fri, 10 Jul 2026 17:23:39 +0000 https://propertyportfolioinvestor.co.uk/?post_type=profile&p=2117

Inside one Sunderland landlord's HMO investment strategy: 14 per cent yields, a £68,000 mistake, and why she is buying while other landlords sell up. Read more →

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Priya Nair: ‘International students saved my portfolio, and most landlords turn them away’ https://propertyportfolioinvestor.co.uk/profiles/nair-student-property-investment/ Fri, 10 Jul 2026 17:01:09 +0000 https://propertyportfolioinvestor.co.uk/?post_type=profile&p=2114

Priya Nair on student property investment: 62 Nottingham beds, why international students transformed her returns and the mistake that cost a year's rent. Read more →

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Tom Brindle: ‘My tenants repair their own roofs. Try that with a buy-to-let’ https://propertyportfolioinvestor.co.uk/profiles/brindle-industrial-property-investment/ Fri, 10 Jul 2026 16:29:43 +0000 https://propertyportfolioinvestor.co.uk/?post_type=profile&p=2111

Tom Brindle sold his last Salford flat in 2019 and never looked back. The former quantity surveyor now controls a £30 million portfolio of small multi-let warehouses ringing the M60, let to everyone from kitchen fitters to a drone repair firm. Read more →

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