Swindon November 2025 Meeting 

The Insider’s Guide: How to Get Into Your Agent’s ‘Black Book’ and Scale Without the Stress  - Wendy Brumwell 

With over 12 years in property, based in Bristol and the South West, Wendy and her team have built a multimillion-pound portfolio of HMOs and BTL’s and have a deep understanding of how to manage and scale them successfully. Their focus has now expanded into developments including commercial-to-residential conversions, planning gain projects, barns, luxury houses, self-builds, and strategic title splits.

They have recently extended their offering through Open House estate agency in the Bristol area, a business built by developers and landlords, for developers and landlords. By combining their experience as developers with a professional agency and property management services, they help investors access off-market opportunities, maximise returns, and grow their BTL and HMO portfolios confidently and without the stress.

ALSO...From Hidden Potential to Real Property Profit: How to Maximise What You Already Own - Michael Donovan 

In this talk, Michael Donovan shares how landlords and investors can unlock hidden value in the properties they already own. With rising costs and changing tax rules, the key to stronger returns isn’t always selling or buying more, it’s making smarter decisions with what’s already in your portfolio. Michael will walk you through practical strategies to audit your assets and improve performance backed by real-life case studies.

On the evening you will learn:

• How to audit your current portfolio to identify poor-performing assets and unlock trapped equity
• Practical strategies to repurpose properties
• Responding to the dreaded Section 24 tax traps
• Real case studies showing how small changes led to huge increases in cashflow or capital gain