 |
Honest Property Investment with Natasha CollinsAuthor: Natasha Collins
Confident investing without shortcuts. The Honest Property Investment Podcast gives UK commercial and mixed-use property investors the expert insight, strategic guidance, and no-fluff support they need to build high-performing portfolios that generate income and hold long-term value. Led by Chartered Surveyor Natasha Collins MRICS, each episode dives into smart commercial property strategies, risk mitigation, leasing, valuations, and the realities of property management all with honesty, integrity, and innovation at its core. New episodes drop every Tuesday at 7am UK time. Language: en Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it |
Listen Now...
Why “getting all your money out” is stopping you buying commercial property
Monday, 2 February, 2026
In this episode, I tackle one of the most common (and most frustrating) sticking points I see when investors assess commercial property deals:“Is the uplift enough to get all, or most, of my money out?”It’s an understandable question — but when it becomes the only question you ask, it will stop you buying almost anything.Using the same commercial property deal, I walk through what that question looks like over 1 year, 3 years, and 5 years, and show how dramatically the pressure, risk, and probability of success changes hookup change depending on the timeframe you’re forcing onto the deal.Nothing about the property changes. Only the expectations do.Why focusing solely on “getting all your money out” is a mental handbrakeHow compressed timeframes make good deals look bad on paperThe real cost of trying to force a one-year refinanceWhat changes (and what doesn’t) when you give a deal 3 yearsWhy a 5-year timeframe is often the most stress-free and realistic optionHow lenders, valuers, leases and rent events behave over timeWhy time is the cheapest form of risk reduction in commercial propertyHow to assess deals without forcing certainty too earlyCommercial property isn’t about forcing a deal to perform quickly.It’s about giving it enough time to do what it naturally does.If every deal you analyse almost works but never quite stacks up — the problem is rarely the deal.It’s the timeframe you’re forcing onto it.You can book a call with us here: https://ncrealestate.co.uk/bookacall/
