Proving a Discount Is Real

Comparables, valuations and spotting a fake "BMV" deal

Below-market-value buying rests on one skill, and it is valuation. This book teaches you to prove, from free and public evidence, whether the discount in front of you actually exists. It explains that one property has several values, why the claimed value is the number most likely to mislead, and how to build a set of comparables that stands up to scrutiny. You will learn to work out true value rather than optimistic value, and to count the cost stack that can quietly eat a discount alive. The discount, the valuation and the timeline are then stress-tested. A complete worked example, invented to teach the method rather than to promise a result, runs a deal from start to finish, and the final chapter gives you a short sequence to run on every deal that reaches you, along with the legal questions it cannot answer. Next in this series: “Discounts, Lenders and Disclosure”.

What’s inside

• The only numbers that actually matter
• Where to find reliable local data for free
• Working out true value, not optimistic value
• The full cost stack nobody mentions
• Stress-testing the discount, the valuation and the timeline
• A complete worked example, start to finish
• Your deal calculator, and the legal questions it cannot answer

Educational material only, not financial, legal or tax advice. Results are not typical and are not a guarantee of income. Freedom Property Academy LTD, registered in England and Wales.