About Property Investments UK & Our Founder

Hi, I'm Rob Jones. I've been a property investor since 2005, I'm the founder of Property Investments UK, and I consider myself the luckiest man in the world. Why? Because I have a wonderful family, two amazing children and a work/life balance that means I can provide for them without ever having to be absent.

It wasn't always like this, of course.

I've had 9-5 jobs where I dreaded Monday morning. I've earned poor wages in exchange for long hours. I've looked in the mirror and asked myself the question: is this the best there is?

Then, after two failed businesses and with a tonne of debt, someone introduced me to estate agency work at the same time that a few of my friends had started to build small buy-to-let portfolios. I made a decision. I would spend a year as a negotiator for an estate agent. I would sleep little, read a lot, attend every networking event and seminar that I could, and then I would aim to grow my own business, maybe launch a property sourcing company and start building my own portfolio.

I realised two things very quickly. The first was that success in property is all about contacts and networks. The second was that there is a lot of very bad advice out there.

So, while growing my property sourcing business, I started to focus on building my own network of investors and agents, and on creating articles, videos and interviews with industry experts to serve as an honest counterpoint to the disingenuous articles and advice that I was seeing online.

Business is all about providing real value to your customers and your audience. Property is no different. I wanted us to create something that would not only serve our customers well but also help any friends or family who might ever want to get started in property, in a way I wish I had been helped when starting out.

The result has been the creation and development of Property Investments UK, a website that is often cited and recommended by our industry peers.