Without a doubt, an investor’s secret weapon to building a profitable property portfolio is their ability to use equity. This is because the one thing we need as property investors, particularly in the acquisition phase of our journey, is access to our money.

Who doesn’t want a slice of their own piece of paradise. But with slow wage growth and exceedingly high house prices, it’s getting harder and harder to become a traditional homeowner – which is why some people are opting to become rent-vestors instead.

With a booming property market, it can sometimes feel impossible to achieve that dream of purchasing your first home. Here are six practical ways you can speed up your ability to grab a slice of your very own real estate gold…

How important is it to buy right the first time? Well, I’d go as far as saying that your very first property could easily be your very last if you don’t play your cards right from the get-go. This is because one of the key ways to build a thriving real estate portfolio is by banking on the growth of a property to support the next one (and so on and so forth) through the process of recycled equity.

It’s the age old question when it comes to making money from real estate. Should you buy and flip, or buy and hold? The potential profits of flipping make it sound instantly attractive compared to the idea of boring long-term investing. BUT – how much money do you really make, and is it all that it’s cracked up to be…

It’s the ultimate dream right – building a real estate empire and then living a life of luxury off it. But what do we actually have to do in order to make enough money from property to make this wish come true? And more to the point, is it even possible in this day and age to actually quit your job and live off your real estate earnings or are those days dead and gone…