Going Countrwide means increased sales

Great News for us this month - we have agreed terms with working with Countrywide  - the UKs largest estate agency branch network with 1200 branches.

We have to sift through an awful lot of properties when selecting for investors and it becomes a time consuming and frankly wasteful process at times because we have to discard 70% of all the sites / properties we see; often because they are in the wrong location or they aren't going to generate enough yield for an investment deal to stack up.

So in 2012 we are now able to represent some of our developers who want extra marketing by selling via the Countrywide branch network nationwide. This is a major milestone for us at Midas because , though the properties might not stack up for an investor, they can make perfectly good homes and it now means we will be engaging at a national level for most of the properties we get sent - and revenues will obviously be driven north by virtue of working in partnership as a corporate client of the nations largest asset management and estate agency business.

So we are looking forward to marketing our properties in the 3rd week of January 2012 and look to grow the partnership further with plenty more on the table to discuss. More to announce in due course.

Sunday Telegraph: East End of London attracts lots of investor attention

The Sunday Telegraph posted a great piece this weekend on the rising boom in investor interest in the East End of London with particular attention drawn to the development in Lett Road Stratford and Isle of Dogs which Midas has access to with fantastic discounts.

Here is a copy of that piece.

For more information on the Stratford development click here: and feel free to call us to discuss in more detail on 0117 9117590 

Oxford United and Leyton Orient do business with Midas

Great News we have 2 new Property School partners in Oxford United and Leyton Orient who are both becoming business partners with Midas and hosting schools at their stadiums - promoting the events to their corporate and football fanbase for Midas. Its a great win win situation for Midas - because we now have fantastic venues to host our events as well as the credibility of league football clubs as advocates.

 

We are also excited to about all of our other negotations with other sports clubs including premiership rugby clubs and national property businesses - soon to be announced.

Work with Midas - The Introducer training

  Today marked a special occasion - our first introducer training session for those people who have caught the Midas Buzz and want to understand exactly how the Midas business works and how they can work for us in finding clients.

We had 4 sessions:

1.   I gave the opening session on how to work the real estate business from an estate agents point of view

2.   Robin gave his overview on the introducer numerous tools and resources available and a full explanation on how he uses networking and internet marketing to attract clients

3.   Phil Clark , one of our preferred mortgage brokers gave an insight on what was possible for investors and how to understand the basics of buy to let investment mortgages

4.   Andy Dillan our lettings manager explained all about the Lettings market and how to find new investors.

Here was a view from the car park at the new office.

Here was the team enjoying their lunch and getting settled back down into the afternoon session.

Here were some comments from some of the attendees

Rob Tolchard - Plymouth
Today's training has allowed me while listening to the great presentation to think of the points I'd been missing out on and I think there are a number of avenues I can now attack and build my Midas introducer business

John Doherty
I have been aware of Midas for a few months now and had already spoken to a couple of people but today it was good to get a good overview of the business, a greater in-depth knowledge of the model and the type of properties and the lettings and the backup service and the knowledge of all those elements helped me explain more fully to the people I talk to -its a really good model

Jawad Ahmed
I think the biggest thing I found today is that there is a lot more equity in your property that  you realize especially if you are self employed and the other thing I found useful was the source of leads and different ways of contacting people and also getting an update on the back office tools available

Paul & Sian Mayer-Haart
It clarified a lot of things and answered a lot of questions and also a lot of things we would never have thought of ourselves. Helpful to meet other people and to get other perspectives - also the questions aren't necessarily occur to us. We found it equipped us for the future

Tony  Ward
There are numerous things -  the first thing I got was trust in the people that set up the business so I have confidence in their experience and what they can do has been proven. Now they have put it altogether in a simple presentation the client must understand its just there for them.

Mike Beckley
Its really interesting - there are a lot of questions you get asked when presenting the concept of property investment and the session today answered all those objections.

Robin asked Kevin Crook from London and Tamas Lakos from Bristol what they got from the sessions

Thanks for coming guys - we hope you can now go off and build a business that enables you to further your own investment plans