Splitting the Uplift

Refurb cost, end value and agreeing a fair share with the owner

An assisted sale lives or dies on three figures: what the property is worth today, what it will genuinely sell for once the work is done, and what that work truly costs. This book teaches you to get all three right, so there is real profit to share and a fair split with the owner almost negotiates itself. It explains the numbers that matter and where to find the evidence for them free of charge. You will learn to test the uplift before believing in it, and to count the full cost stack rather than just the builder's quote and the agent's fee. Each deal is stress-tested against a works overrun, a slow sale and a falling market, because something in property almost always goes off plan. A complete worked example, using round figures chosen to teach the method, brings everything together, and the final chapter reduces it to a short calculator and names the legal questions it cannot answer. Next in this series: “Assisted Sale Agreements”.

What’s inside

• The only numbers that actually matter
• Where to find reliable local data for free
• Working out true uplift, not optimistic uplift
• The full cost stack nobody mentions
• Stress-testing for the overrun, the slow sale and the falling market
• 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.