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.