Progressive Property Academy

If you'd been with us in 2005 when we started Progressive, you'd have never imagined we'd build the UK's largest and most personal property community. We just wanted a few properties in our portfolio but it grew and became it's own community of like minded property entrepreneurs, like you, of all levels, making money and making a difference.

We launched the Progressive Property Academy programme in 2010 because there was a big gap between training and implementation. To know and not to do, is not to know.

The missing ingredients were accountability, support, motivation and personal coaching to take you through the property speed bumps.

We also wanted you to have a readymade network power team of everyone you needed, including JV partners, financiers and local investors, so you could hit the ground running towards financial freedom

We're honoured that you chose Progressive and really want to help you achieve all your goals and dreams. We love working with inspired people, everyone at Progressive are here to help you so together we can make this happen!

The Progressive Property Academy programme is designed by you, for you to invest in freedom, choice and profit.

Mark Homer has been the driving force behind the 600 properties acquisitions (and counting) for himself, Rob and their investors. He built Progressive Lets and has commented in many major publications including BBC Radio, Landlord Today, Financial Reporter, The Independent and The Wall Street Journal. Mark has been an Investor/Entrepreneur since the age of 16.

He has a keen interest in finance investment, compounding growth and finding property deals. He is constantly developing and refining investment strategies designed to outperform the masses and create increase, sustainable, blended returns whilst controlling risk. His trademarked Deal Analyser is used by 10,000's of investors and is becoming the industry standard investment tool.

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 Progressive Property Academy. Darren then went full time into property four months into his Progressive Property Academy.

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.

Derek has completed most of the Progressive courses including 2 years Progressive Property Academy and 1 year ICM, having sourced and packaged around 250 deals in the last few years. He completed on 43 deals in 2019 alone, just short of his 50 target for the year. This has lead Derek to have his own letting agency which two of his daughters run managing nearly 200 units. Jennifer the older of the two daughters also runs the refurb and maintenance business. Through sourcing Derek has also done most of the creative strategies such as Vendor Finance and Delayed Completions. For 4 years he was also PPN Newcastle Host.

Mark has over 25 years experience in property and business. During that time, he has sourced property through agents, auctions and direct to vendor. He specialises in the renovation of problem properties, adding value via refurbishment, change of use or title split. He now owns a multi-million pound portfolio of single lets and HMOs, some of which have been commercial to residential conversions. He is also a regular YPN author/ contributor.

Roy owns 69 properties with over £1 million gross rental income per year. He’s also raised over £1million of JV finance. Roy has scaled and systemised a letting agency. Roy has partnered with Progressive with an ‘On Patch Mentoring’ and is head of the Progressive Property Academy mentors to deliver excellence.

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 of experience as a life, business and wealth coach.

Nick love’s to be outdoors – you’ll always find him listening to a book, scribbling in a notebook, and hunting for a coffee shop!

Peter started with a small portfolio of 4 BTLs 10 years ago and has spent his previous 25 years in his 'Job' working for various House Builders and Councils across the Country.

Following a visit to Multiple Streams of Property Income (MSOPI) in January 2015 he realised he could do it for himself. He joined Progressive Property Academy and within 12 months he had increased his portfolio to 17 units worth £1.6m and a net cash flow of £4000 pcm.

Alongside this he is currently developing over 40 units and has raised JV finance to fund this of £3.4m. During his time as a Progressive Property Academy his wife has had a baby, given up her day job and started a Lettings Agency to help provide an end to end service as part of the Deal Packaging and Sourcing Business.

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 Property Academy 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.

Alongside this he is currently developing over 40 units and has raised JV finance to fund this of £3.4m. During his 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.

Jez founded Kove Properties, a property investment company based in the North East in
2019 and have the bold vision to improve housing across the UK. Since then they have
sourced over 140 deals for their clients across multiple strategies, and project managed
60 refurbishment projects. 

They have also built a portfolio of 15 BTL and Serviced
Accommodation units, both owned and R2R. They have a strong following on Social
Media with 10k+ subscribers on Instagram.

Jez He joined the Progressive Property Academy in early 2020 and won the Academy’s
“Outstanding Achievement” Progressive Property Academy Award 2021.
Prior to property he has a background in the charity and business sectors with expertise
in project management, business development, fundraising and marketing. He managed
contracts of up to £6m, with the likes of Vodafone, Deutsche Bank and Deloitte. He also
founded his own catering business and spent 3 years managing hospitality businesses in
London including winning a ‘Best Cafe’ award in 2019.
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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)

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.

Philip has been investing in property since 1999, alongside a full time job as a mortgage broker. He now has a single let portfolio worth over £3M with a monthly gross rental income of over £13,000. In 2006, after spending a year training with Countrywide he set up his mortgage brokers Shire Financial Services. He now has a team of brokers, with as you would expect a specialism in the BTL sector. Philip is married to Danielle and they have 2 grown up children.

Philip & Danielle have completed several flips and always made £30,000 or more profit on every deal. Prior to all of this Philip worked for accountants PwC for 11 years where he trained as an Accountant.

History: Chloe is a dedicated Property Investor who has gradually built a successful property portfolio since transitioning to full-time investment in 2021. With a background in management and leadership, combined with years of experience in the health and social care sector, Chloe has brought a thoughtful and strategic approach to property investment. Specialising in BRR and HMO conversion projects, she has grown a multi-million asset base, generating a steady income of £200k+ per year.

Chloe has raised and repaid over £500k in private finance, demonstrating her ability to structure and secure funding for investment opportunities. Additionally, she has built and staffed an online Letting Agency to manage her own portfolio and for other landlords.

Her efforts have been recognised through awards like the Progressive Property Academy Member of the Year 2022 Winner, 2017 Partnership Working Award and shortlisted at the Female Business Festival 2024 for Professional Services and Business Growth categories, as well as being featured in the NRLA newsletter and On The House Magazine.

In her free time, Chloe enjoys sports, reading, being in nature, and live music. She is passionate about helping others be their very best selves by offering practical advice and support with mindset, wellbeing, and of course, all things property, business and raising finance.