Apologies for the delay in getting last Friday's Office Hours recording uploaded! This session was very much focused on a walkthrough of the new AI Onboarding Flow, one of the most important improvements we're making to Sentinel. The whole purpose of Sentinel is to act as your AI property co-investor, and that starts with understanding you as an investor. During the session, we explored how the new onboarding experience: ✅ Defines your investment goals – What you want your portfolio to deliver and by when. ✅ Understands your resources – Your available capital, experience and investment circumstances. ✅ Evaluates your targets – Assessing whether your ambitions are achievable with your current resources and identifying where trade-offs may be needed. ✅ Establishes your operating style – From passive investing through to more hands-on, operational strategies.

A new week, more coaching, and some powerful new features to get stuck into on Sentinel! 🎓 TUESDAY 13 OCTOBER | 10:00 AM ACOM Coaching – Financing This week's coaching session is all about financing property deals. We'll explore funding options, structuring finance and how to make the numbers work. 🟢 FRIDAY 16 OCTOBER | 11:00 AM Sentinel Office Hours Our weekly opportunity to catch up on Sentinel, explore the latest developments, ask questions and get more out of the platform. 🚀 SENTINEL – LATEST RELEASE NOW LIVE! A reminder that our latest update has landed, bringing some significant improvements to the platform: ✅ Automatic Property Import – Import property listings directly into Sentinel, reducing manual data entry and speeding up your deal analysis. ✅ Price & Status History – See how a property's asking price and listing status have changed over time, giving you more intelligence for negotiations. ✅ Granular Postcode Comparables – Access detailed, postcode-level comparable metrics across every property type, helping you better understand local markets and assess opportunities. These improvements are all about giving you better intelligence, reducing the legwork and helping you make smarter investment decisions. Get into Sentinel, try out the new features and bring your questions to Friday's Office Hours! See you this week! 🚀

Been in property for many years and gone through many recessions, changes, interest rate hikes. I had 2 x buy to let’s mortgages at 8% interest, thankfully paid those off now. You just have to adapt to the market. As your book says, I’m looking at houses split into 4 or more flats and shops/uppers that I can change the use of the upper parts using PD Im selling a flat in a block and got one flat left in a block but I’d never personally buy a flat in a block ever again. Service charges just wind you up how much they cost every year, mine are £2k pa each one. Looking to extend the lease on my last one, then get rid of it. Hopefully I’ll finish the book tomorrow

Thanks to everyone who joined today’s Office Hours. We covered some important changes now being made to Sentinel, plus what’s next on the roadmap. 🧭 Goldmine Areas are changing The three-postcode restriction is being removed. Your Goldmine will now be a broader target area, using as many postcodes as Sentinel thinks are relevant — and, importantly, it will no longer constrain your deal pipeline. You can analyse properties wherever you find them. Instead, Goldmine becomes a behavioural tool. Sentinel can compare where you intend to invest with where you're actually finding, analysing and progressing opportunities. 📊 More intelligence on the Deal Card With those postcode restrictions removed, we're also introducing Market Intelligence directly into the Deal Card, giving Sentinel — and you — better context around each individual opportunity. 🤖 A new activation experience We're rebuilding activation away from a rigid, linear flow and towards an AI-led onboarding conversation. Sentinel will understand your goals, capital, experience, strategy and intended areas, then use that context throughout the platform. ⚡ Next on the roadmap: automating the deal itself The next major focus is removing more of the manual work involved in adding and analysing a property. Phase 1 – Property Intelligence Sentinel automatically gathers and structures the core property information: listing images, brochures, EPC data, market context, price and listing status, and other available property data. Phase 2 – Income & Asset Structure From there, we move into automatically understanding the property itself: accommodation breakdown, unit and room sizing, existing income structure, rents, leases and other information needed to underwrite the opportunity. The direction is simple: less input from you, more work done by Sentinel. You find — or eventually Sentinel finds — the opportunity. Sentinel reads the deal and gets you to the judgement faster. See you at the next Sentinel Office Hours.

Hi all, Attended the summit on Saturday in Chester, bit of a long drive from Essex but at least I stayed over for 2 nights. I really liked a Grade 2 listed ex pub near me and went to visit it about 3 times but after having a chat with Rob, won’t bother now, I had plans in my head to turn the grounds into storage and other things but chances of getting planning were slim to nil. Somethings you just have to walk away from. Been in property 30 years this year and done a few things over the years and sometimes you just have to walk away from a possible deal. However, if anyone comes across land in a residential area. 1.25 acres to 3 acres, no semi rural or rural, I maybe interested, ideally in South East, Hertfordshire, Kent areas. This will be for the care sector When I eventually sell a flat I’m trying to complete on, I will be looking at title split opportunities in the near future and uppers and lowers commercial properties Good luck in everyone’s journey