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The First Questions are For You
- How Risk Averse are You?
- Do You Want to Invest in Property?
The Media and Property Prices
- What the Media Use
- Fashionable Articles and Tragic Stories
- The Use and Abuse of Mortgages
Making House Price Predictions
Understanding the Property Market
- The Current Trend
- The Traditional Property Cycle
- Variations in the Traditional Property Cycle
Is a Property Market Overvalued?
- Modelling the Market
- Average Salaries
Property, Confidence, Stocks and Money
Property Bubbles and Market Crashes
Why Buy in a Falling Market?
Finding a Property Hotspot
Buying to Let / for an Investment
- Yield
- Capital Gain
- Buying off Plan

Getting on the Property Ladder
- The Deposit
- 100% Mortgages
- Buying Where You Don't Want to Live
Working With Estate Agents
- The Way Professionals Work with Agents
- Preparing for Your Search
- Irrelevant Questions
Sorting Out Your Mortgage
- AIPs and PAMs
- What do You Need Your Mortgage to do?
- Financial Advisors Who Charge
Choosing a Conveyancer or Solicitor
- Before You Start Viewing Properties
- Big Firms and Little Firms
- The New Breed of Conveyancers
- No Sale, No Fee and Fixed Fee
- Recommended by a Friend
- Flowchart Chooser
Your Own Homework
Viewing Properties and Making Offers
- How the System Works
- Preparing for Viewings
- Common Terminology
- Making an Offer
How to Really Make an Offer on a Property
- How Much to Offer and When
- Clearly Defining the Offer
- Pitching an Offer for Negotiation
- Non-Refundable Deposits

Who to Trust When Buying Property
- Why Buyers Trust the Wrong People
- The Advice of Family and Friends
The Property Buying Process in Theory
- You, The Buyer
- Your Solicitor
- The Vendors' Solicitor
- The Vendor
Has Hips Helped?
The Balance of Power
Time Costs Deals
What a Property Survey Really Means
- Types of Survey
- What is in the Survey
- Structural Issues
- Other Issues
- Types of Surveyors
Legal Matters in Property Purchases
- What the Solicitor Needs to Find Out
- Solicitors Who Fight
- Power of Attorney
- Fast Track Purchasing
Why Vendors are Poorly Prepared
- Preparing the Paperwork
Why Vendors Choose Bad Estate Agents
- The Fee
- Big Agent, Little Agent
- Using More Than One Agent
- Changing Agents