As Season One of Expat Property Story draws to a close, it's time to explain the titles of episodes to anyone who hasn't already noticed. Each episode is named after a song and if you go to the episode show notes, you will find a link to a YouTube clip of the song chosen for each guest.

I recently read on a property forum of an eager expat struggling to secure a property sourcer in the UK. His problem wasn't that he couldn't find any, but that he couldn't decide which ones to trust of the hundreds that were offering their services in his Facebook groups after being spooked by some of the horror stories on that forum.

A recent discussion about risk on a well-known property forum revealed that the most prominent risk in the mind of most investors revolves around loan to value. Many investors, and, it seems to me, expats especially, appear to equate low LTV to low risk and high LTV to high risk.

A few months ago, I decided to start a podcast for people like me: expats investing in UK property. Years ago, I considered a career in radio production, making programmes like the BBC’s Crossing Continents, which would combine two of my passions: travel and broadcasting.