Paul S

Investor & Entrepreneur ~ passions are Property Investment, AI, a heavy dose of Personal Development and all things beautiful

[Paul S @paulsamuda]

morally suspect doesn’t apply when a pension fund does the same thing at scale.

The philosophy gap. The most damaging one.

Episode 79: All Change, All Change — Mind the F@7cking Gap.

#PropertyManagement #EssentialManagement

[Paul S @paulsamuda]

At some point I became the villain of the housing story.

Meanwhile the government directed 1.1 million council workers’ pension savings into institutional rental housing.

The principle that makes individual property investment

[Paul S @paulsamuda]

290,000 rental homes left the PRS in a single year.

That’s not coincidence. That’s mathematics.

#Section24 #PropertyInvestment

[Paul S @paulsamuda]

Private landlord under Section 24: pays income tax on GROSS rental revenue.
Build-to-Rent corporation: pays 25% tax on PROFIT.

Taxed on what came in vs taxed on what’s left.

26% of landlords sold at least one property in 2024. Highest proportion ever recorded.

[Paul S @paulsamuda]

One senior professional impressed by ALMa. Another convinced AI doesn't care. Same day. Then ALMa quietly proved a point about me too. Full story on LinkedIn.
#ALMa #AIinProperty

[Paul S @paulsamuda]

The equality gap. Episode 79. 🎤

#RentersRightsAct #PrivateLandlord

[Paul S @paulsamuda]

Sub-£1,000/month rental homes in England and Wales:

2020: 740,027
2023: 464,774

37.2% fewer affordable rental homes in three years.

The people the Renters Rights Act was meant to protect are the ones hardest hit by the supply collapse it helped create.

[Paul S @paulsamuda]

The government taxing private landlords out isn’t indifferent to institutional landlordism. It has a direct financial stake in it.

Gap 1: The Budget Deficit Gap. Ep 4 out this week.

#PropertyInvestment #BTR

[Paul S @paulsamuda]

In February 2026, Border to Coast Pensions Partnership invested £70m into 139 rental homes in Cambridge.

That’s the pension money of 1.1 million council workers directed into the residential rental sector.

[Paul S @paulsamuda]

Last week of H1. Sent our developer the list of what needs finishing before we call phase one of our AI agent build done. Nothing focuses a roadmap like a deadline.
#TransformationYear #AIinProperty

[Paul S @paulsamuda]

#PrivateLandlord #RentersRightsAct

[Paul S @paulsamuda]

Four gaps. All widening simultaneously.

Budget deficit gap.
Equality gap.
Tax gap.
Philosophy gap.

Private landlords are falling into every single one.

Episode 79 of The Essential Property Podcast drops this week. The honest version of what’s actually happening.

[Paul S @paulsamuda]

MABLe vs the tool we were paying for. Head to head. Every feature scored. MABLe won all but 2. Team confirmed. One fix outstanding. Then we cancel the subscription. ~£150/month saved. Small number. The principle is bigger: we own the stack. #MABLe #PropTech #AIinProperty

[Paul S @paulsamuda]

Full story on LinkedIn here. #AIinProperty #PropTech

[Paul S @paulsamuda]

Late night. AI forward planning session. I said to Manus: gold star if you can tell me what I'm thinking. 15 seconds. It was right. Me: how did you know that? Manus: can I claim my gold star first? I've been doing this 13 weeks. I still stopped.

[Paul S @paulsamuda]

The second half planning starts now.

#TransformationYear #AIinProperty #OutcomesAsAService

[Paul S @paulsamuda]

13 weeks in. H1 done. H1: build, deploy, test, report honestly. H2: performance, metrics, planning for commercial model. We're calling it Outcomes as a Service. Not AI as a tool. AI that delivers measurable results — and can be subscribed to.

[Paul S @paulsamuda]

You can’t outsource decisions before you’ve decided what the system is allowed to decide.

#BuildInPublic #AIinProperty #TransformationYear

[Paul S @paulsamuda]

13 weeks in. The lesson nobody warned me about:

The hardest part of AI integration isn’t connecting the systems.

It’s sequencing the humans around them.

STAn + REGGIe connected correctly. The gap was human coordination.

[Paul S @paulsamuda]

#ALMa #AIinProperty #EssentialManagement

[Paul S @paulsamuda]

ALMa asked how I was last week.

I was running on habit, not energy.

ALMa noticed. Session shifted. I took the weekend properly.

One question. One honest answer. Two days of actual rest.

That’s not the AI story people expect. It might be the one that matters most.