This ranked guide of property titles is a resource to help your find the best property investment books for beginners in the UK. So the first one is to be aware that saving isn’t gonna get you there. So for the reasons we spoke about, with the fact that you’re guaranteed to lose purchasing power in the bank. So even though you can now actually get something in a bank, you could’ve get, gotten like three and a half per cent . . . Absolutely. Now, Rob, tell us about your experience as a landlord and the kind of lessons that you pass on to people who are aspiring to get there. Countless economists have cooked up models for running a country’s economy (and won Nobel prizes for them) that they claim will end the boom/bust cycle. It takes an average of 15 - 25 weeks to invest in a property. This measures the time from a property being publicly listed on the market, to keys being handed to the buyer.

You need an emergency fund. If you’re saving for something like a house, you don’t want to have that exposed to the markets where anything could happen over a short period of time. So I’m not saying don’t save, but I’m just saying be aware that it might feel now like your savings are doing something for you, but because inflation is higher as well, it’s kind of not. Now, Cornerstone Press is republishing a revised and updated edition, supported by a campaign to take the book to an even wider audience. Editorial director Rowan Borchers acquired UK and Commonwealth rights from Rachel Mills at the RML agency in a two-book deal. It’s called the definitive guide to letting and managing a rental property and the author Robert Dix makes clear that the book only covers the letting and managing of a property that the investor already owns. Across the 2010 decade, average house prices across the UK rose by 33%. London saw the highest growth, with a 66% increase in price being registered. OK. Well, to return to the question that we asked at the start of the podcast, money is just a fiction that everyone has chosen to believe in. Now, with all the issues right now, Rob, in the financial system, do you think there will come a point where that faith in the financial system will be shaken or even lost?

Well, yeah, a career. And in broadcasting too. And one thing I ask everyone, Rob, who comes on the show is: what’s your earliest money memory? This can change dramatically with sufficient motivation on both sides, although you will not always be in control of the factors at play. The fourth is to favour real assets. So this is sort of the things that you can touch, like a property, but also infrastructure, commodities, things like that. And obviously I’ve got a bias towards property because that’s what I do. But what’s at the core of that is that real assets have utility and they’re scarce. So value comes from scarcity. If something is abundant and there’s just loads of it, no one’s going to pay you much for it. So if you’ve got something like property or even gold or something like that, then there’s only so much value. There’s a natural built-in scarcity there which is going to become more and more useful over time. And with something like property, then of course it’s something that people actually need to live in and there’s always gonna be a need for it, which kind of gives some kind of value to your investment. So, in general, as we have moved into inflationary times and possibly more challenging times, it’s always are things that people actually need that are going to perform better. This is a common people asked by people researching the best books on property investment. There is certainly some overlap between the two terms.

You don’t need even the slightest knowledge of economics to read this book – just a desire to understand why the world of money is working against you, and what to do about it. Rob Dix started investing as a hobby using his spare cash, but soon became obsessed. Over the next 10 years, he would do everything he could to educate himself about the financial world and to pass on what he learnt.The best investing books come in two main styles; those that offer facts, data & information and those that offer an opinion. Both are incredibly useful - but we need to be able to identify which books are which. No. And it’s been a really big problem even for older colleagues in the FT who hadn’t realised they were being lifestyled and having their pension investments moved more into bonds as they got older. So that’s another tip . . . Doing something else. (laughter) So that’s one. And the other is favouring boring companies. So it’s like, when money is free and everything’s going great, then all your kind of Teslas and Netflix and all those exciting companies that are maybe possibly gonna make money one day, are very attractive. When that’s not the case and we’re now in a more high-interest-rate environment and gonna stay there, but your kind of boring, kind of consumer staples, again, things people actually need, and they’re probably been trading a bit cheaper over recent years, again, going to be more appealing. So we’ve, that’s obviously a correction we’ve already seen. But what I’m saying is it, I think, is gonna stay that way because the conditions are going to remain in place. So keeping it boring both in terms of what you invest in and how you invest in it is probably a better way to go. Hmm. Well, I mean, certainly there are many things in it that fascinated and surprised me. But let’s talk about your journey towards becoming an investor because you started investing your spare cash at really quite an early age. And that developed into an obsession, in your own words. So tell us how it all began.

Somewhere between 90% and 100% of professional fund managers fail to beat the market consistently over time.In The Price of Money, a leading investment expert explains what’s changed – and what you should do now we’re here.You’ll learn why currencies the world over have lost 99 per cent of their value, and how to use future declines to your advantage. You’ll understand how the government can produce hundreds of billions out of thin air, and which investments benefit when they do. Most importantly, you’ll be shown what’s coming next – and how to position yourself to gain rather than suffer. Cash gets a bad rap. Everyone points out that you barely earn any interest on it, and it loses earning power to inflation every year.