The investment side
Buy well. Renovate properly. Sell without hurry.
Flipping only looks easy from outside. The money is made on the day you buy, and it is lost by paying for someone else’s optimism. Here is how we actually do it.
Find it
We look for property priced below what the street supports — a deceased estate, a distressed sale, a flat nobody has photographed properly. The margin is made here, not at the end.
Run the numbers cold
Purchase, transfer duty, bond costs, levies while we hold it, the renovation, agent's commission on the way out. If it only works on the optimistic version, we do not buy it.
Renovate to hold value
Kitchens, bathrooms, floors and light. We finish to a standard that survives a valuation and a fussy buyer, not to a standard that photographs well and fails at the inspection.
Sell, or keep it
If the market gives us our number, we sell and recycle the capital. If it does not, the apartment goes into the letting portfolio and pays its way until it does.
Investing alongside us
Estate-Vest is a private company owned by its directors. We are not offering shares to the public, and nothing on this website is an offer or financial advice.
We do talk to people who want to put capital behind a specific purchase, and to owners who would rather sell to us directly than list. If that is you, start with a message and we will tell you honestly whether there is anything to discuss.
A note on regulation. Estate-Vest lets and sells its own property. We are not acting as an estate agent for anyone else, and we do not give financial advice. Anything you invest, you should put to your own advisor first.