This is an exclusive community where many of the UK's top professional property investors and trainers are made.

This is an exclusive community where many of the UK's top professional property investors and trainers are made.

Some of the most active Progressive Property Academy Community Members have multi-million pound portfolios with between £3,000 and £10,000 net cash flow per month.

Many Progressive Progressive Property Academy Members past and present are now UK property experts in their own rights, running their own training programmes, portfolio building and deal packaging businesses and mentoring others. We keep them, and you, accountable to success.

£65million of joint-venture (JV) finance has been raised and exchanged within the Progressive Property Academy Community, which you can instantly tap into. Just imagine what these or similar results could do for you and your life.

Everything you need to grow

35-minute mentoring sessions with certified Progressive mentors, every month.

Expert speakers at PPA events throughout the year on advanced, community-requested topics.

PPA-exclusive webinars with PPA mentor Nick Thorpe, including a live Q&A.

Priority access to the lowest prices across all Progressive training programmes.

Continual support from the UK's largest professional property network — for freedom, choice and profit.

We keep you and the whole community on track. Members go further, faster, together.

Here you can see all of our Progressive Property Academy Gold Mentors:

Derbyshire

Rick has been full time in property since 2018, leaving his previous corporate role in web development. Having built a successful deal packaging business, Rick has sourced or purchased over 70 properties for himself and his clients. These have included BRR single lets, flips, HMO conversions, commercial to residential HMO, flats, and new builds. His current scheme is a commercial to residential block of 18 flats with a GDV of £2.6M+. Having worked on a wide range of projects, Rick has a keen eye for space planning and layouts, and now creates most of his own floorplans and working drawings. This has on occasion given him a unique edge, enabling him to buy deals which others have missed. Rick has raised millions in JV finance and private loans has built a multi million pound property portfolio across multiple successful businesses. In addition Rick and his wife Sophie have setup a Lettings agency managing over 150 tenancies and growing.

Deal packaging, BRR single lets, HMO conversions, commercial to residential, planning gain,   JV structures, floorplans.

Norwich, Norfolk, East Anglia.

Over the past decade, Nick has founded, grown and sold multiple companies based around property and finance. He built his personal property portfolio and then started offering bespoke sourcing to hundreds of international clients. Property strategies include Buy to Let, Houses of Multiple Occupancy, Serviced Accommodation and Medium size developments (up to £10m Gross Development Value). He also has 20+ years experience as a life, business and wealth coach

BRR, BTL, HMO, Raising Private Finance.

Ipswich, Norwich, Colchester, Great Yarmouth

Halstead bought his first property at age 19, and has been involved in property investing ever since. In order to take his investing to the next level, he joined Progressive in 2010. Halstead now has a multi-million pound portfolio consisting of BTL's, HMO's and SA's, and has raised over £5m in JV finance. He has also converted a care home into 30 bungalows, built 4 industrial units and has land which houses 10 storage containers.

B2L's, Problem solving, Raising finance, Creative Strategies and Commercial Conversions.

Peterborough & Boston.

Shaz is a chartered accountant, serial property investor for 17 years and director of a national-multi-award-winning accountancy practice - AA Accountants. AA Accountants have been voted one of the UK’s most inspiring accountancy firms and were chosen as one of the world’s most inspiring accountancy firms Shaz owns five separate businesses and has conducted over 3,000 business growth consultations, AA Accountants have a team of specialist property tax accountants (including a specialist property VAT advisor, a specialist property tax adviser and their own Estate Planner for Inheritance Tax and Trusts) Shaz's team also specialise in working with property investors (B2L, SA, R2SA, R2R, Commercial Conversions, New Builds and all things property), they also specialise in VAT, TAX, SDLT, business structures, Capital Gains Tax and Inheritance Tax Currently Shaz has helped clients secure over £150m in funding, added an additional £100m in profit to clients’ bank accounts and saved millions in additional tax (£1,937,367 tax saved for clients in 2018 alone)

(B2L, SA, R2SA, R2R, Commercial Conversions, New Builds and all things property), they also specialise in VAT, TAX, SDLT, business structures, Capital Gains Tax and Inheritance Tax.

Cumbria/Scotland

Darren tried to buy his first BTL property when he was 16, back in 2003, He was told by the bank he needed to come back when he was 18 to be able to apply for a mortgage. After reading Mark and Rob’s book, Multiple Streams of Property Income. Darren attended a Multiple Streams of Property Income event and then joined VIP. Darren then went full time
into property four months into his VIP.

Single Lets - Buy – Refurbish – Re-mortgage (BRR), Sourcing BMV Properties via Estate Agents/Direct to Vendor Strategies, HMOs, Serviced Accommodation, Rent to Rent, Joint Venture Finance Raising, Mindset

Hartlepool, North East England

I’ve packaged and sold around 360 properties to investors, I have a small portfolio of 15 single buy to lets and plan to buy some more this year or next. I’ve done around 20 creative deals, some I’ve kept some I’ve sold, which have been Vendor Finance or Delayed Completions.

We have an Arla/Property Mark registered lettings Agency which manage around 250 units, this is ran by two of my daughters and their staff. This is definitely my proudest achievement.

I was a PPN host for around 4 years and learnt a lot from it, I’m also a mentor on Progressives Academy program which I’ve done for around 10 years and still enjoy it."

Special in Direct to vendor marketing, Sourcing and Packaging BMV Deals, Options, Delayed Completions and Vendor Finance.

Leeds / Wakefield

John rented his first property way back in 1987 with zero advice or education. He now has an impressive multi million pound residential and commercial portfolio, deal sourcing / development company and letting agency (www.homestorentleeds.co.uk). John and his wife Melanie own and operate award winning beauty salons (www.beautymattersleeds.co.uk). Along the way John studied Person Centred counselling, NLP, Hypnosis and Reiki healing. MINDSET is of particular interest.

Single and Multi-lets, Commercial, Business, Multiple Income Streams, Buy refurb
refinance, Creative property solutions, Mindset, title-splitting and the rest.

Liverpool & Bedford

Steve spent 13 years working for a global commercial finance company in sales and then Risk Management. Since leaving the corporate world in 2013, Steve set up his portfolio of BTL rental properties in Liverpool as he went through Progressive's VIP programme making him financially free. It was also at this time Steve completed his first lease option deal generating £30,000 net profit in nine weeks using strategies learnt at Progressive. To get more property experience, Steve joined Countrywide, the largest residential sales & letting company in the UK, spending 3 years understanding the operational aspects of the residential letting business. It was at this time Steve then focused his attention on HMO management in Bedford by setting up his own HMO management company which quickly grew by 143% in the last 12 months to over £250,000 annual revenue. Steve is process orientated and constantly looks to leverage technology to streamline his business. He is currently looking to expand his HMO management business into five new locations.

HMO, Rent2Rent, Letting Agency, BTL, Systems & Technology

 North East of England, Newcastle,
Sunderland Area

Malcolm has over 20 years of experience in property. He first started investing in property in 2002 when he purchased an investment property for £42k in Sunderland; it’s been a huge success and currently rents out at £700pcm. He also invested in Leeds and more recently acquired many more in his chosen investment area in the far North East of England. He joined Progressive in 2019 and was inspired by Kevin McDonnell and Toni Gargan amongst others. He invested in a number of courses including the No Money Down Masterclass and the Mastermind. He also joined the Progressive Academy, then subscribed to Lifetime membership. His main skills have been acquired throughout his varied career, these can be summarised as Project Management and Business Development where he now finds himself problem solving by finding creative solutions for his JV partners and his personal business projects. Having personally managed over 20 refurbishment projects Malcolm now has a great power team he can rely upon. He continues to network widely and has had opportunities to guide and mentor small business owners and aspiring property investors. 

Malcolm is based in the North East of England, close to Newcastle where you might find him at the weekend ‘OOT On the TOON’ dancing in clubs with his partner Debbie.
His most successful property investments are now all consolidated in a portfolio located the
Sunderland Area.

Malcolm has packaged deals for clients in the past and now specialises in B2L (BRRR) for cashflow and Flips for capital growth

Ironbridge, Shropshire & the West Midlands

I first came to Progressive in 2016 at the start of my property investing journey, and since then have built my own multi-million pound portfolio – all done around my amazing, non-negotiable “day job” teaching guitar and helping people to chase their passion. Along the way I’ve invested heavily in my own education and personal development – as I do to this day: it’s made all the difference to my life’s trajectory. Since joining the mentoring team I’ve put my teaching and coaching skills to use, along with the countless valuable lessons learned from my previous career which saw me involved in the British Armed Forces, international and domestic casino management, personal finance, accountancy &
management consultancy, as well as owning businesses in the service and retail sectors. I’m dedicated to your success, to your continuing growth and learning. And I’m living proof that it’s possible for you - because if I can do it... anyone can!

Buy-To-Let, Joint Venture, and Vendor Finance strategies to build my portfolio, and have raised over half a million pounds of investor funding. Having trained in all of the No Money Down strategies I’m able to analyse deals from multiple angles.

SE London & Kent, Essex, Surrey & Sussex, will look at areas further

I started investing in property in 2007 and made lots of the usual mistakes until finding Progressive and attending my first event in April 2018. I sat the No Money Down Masterclass in Nov 2018 and started Mastermind in February 2019.
My main strengths are in sales & social media/marketing plus structuring tenant buyer deals as well as securing and operating R2R serviced accommodation units. I mainly specialise in working with investor clients on the planning, structuring and managing the delivery on refurb and conversion projects.
I’m passionate about working with mentees to help them understand and embrace the processes around:
1. Viewing a property and capturing & recording the information
2. Estimating build costs
3. Finding & vetting building contractors and professional services
4. CDM health & safety compliance
5. Delivering projects through to completion

R2R, sales & social media/marketing, SA units, refurb and conversion projects.

Milton Keynes

If you have been in the property scene in Milton Keynes before you probably would recognise Neil Briggs, he started in the industry in 2001 as a Mortgage Advisor and has since then gone on to establish several businesses and a multimillion-pound property portfolio. Neil has been investing in property personally since the early 2000s and personally does multiple strategies which include Flips, HMO’s, Single lets, commercial conversions, new build developments, Mini Mo’s, Micro Flats and commercial property. Neil has experience in JV’s and working with armchair investors for his property and development arm but also owns and runs a multi-branch sales and lettings agency, a mortgage brokerage, property sourcing company and a building company and also has in-depth experience of the planning system. Neil has educated his staff at the agency so they understand the property investing sector so they are well placed to explain rent to rent to landlords, option agreements, exchanged with delayed completions and other strategies that most will just dismiss. Having experience in these transaction types means we understand the benefits for both parties so can properly advise clients on all aspects relating to them. Anyone that knows Neil knows he’s passionate about property and also has a passion for running, he can often be out running marathons regularly and also taking phone calls doing deals! He is always happy to help people along the way and has a straight-talking no-nonsense manner that people find refreshing.

Flips, HMO’s, Single lets, commercial conversions, new build developments, Mini Mo’s, Micro Flats and commercial property.

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