heather smail

Most "best places to invest" lists send you straight to Manchester, Liverpool or Birmingham. They are solid markets, but they are also crowded, competitive and increasingly expensive to enter. What rarely gets a mention is the cluster of East Midlands cities and market towns sitting quietly between them, offering some of the strongest rental yields in the country at a fraction of the price. Heather Smail has spent over 16 years investing and developing across Nottingham and Derby, £106...

Loughborough has quietly become one of the East Midlands' most talked about property markets. With a university that consistently ranks in the UK's top ten and more than 18,000 students needing somewhere to live each year, demand for shared housing here rarely slows down. For landlords and investors, that raises an obvious question. Are HMO properties actually a good investment in Loughborough, or is the appeal bigger than the reality? The answer depends on how well you understand the local...

Nottingham is one of the most written-about property markets in the UK, and most of what's written is the same recycled list: two universities, strong yields, regeneration, buy here. All true. None of it useful on its own. This guide is different in two ways. First, it's written from sixteen years of investing in this market HSPG's founder bought her first property here in 2010, and the group has been acquiring, converting, and holding Nottingham assets ever since. Second, it treats...