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Etiquette you should follow when selling your home in Bristol
There are a whole wealth of emotions wrapped up into selling your home; you have to part ways with a property you once loved, whilst you start your quest for the next one that will steal your heart. The ups and downs of the process can sometimes cloud your judgement and, as this is one […]
PORTSMOUTH RESIDENTIAL MARKET REPORT – FEBRUARY 2020
Welcome to the February market report, where we cover the following topics. Portsmouth Homeowners £1,047,060,300 Windfall Since 2014 In the latest, and most recently published, set of UK mortgage data (for the month of November 2019) 18,470 pound-for-pound re-mortgages were made (i.e. the borrower went from one rate to another with no additional borrowing). Looking […]
The ‘Account Manager’ approach to Estate Agency
As an industry, Estate Agency has one of the poorest reputations when it comes to perception of service and value for money. It can be so painfully frustrating to deal with estate agents whether you’re a seller, buyer, tenant or Landlord. The reason for this is that there is no common theme throughout the customer […]
Bristol Landlord’s £71.1m Tax Bill
I am asking Kerry McCarthy, Darren Jones, Karin Smyth and Thangam Debbonaire the Labour MP’s for Bristol to remind the Chancellor Sajid Javid and Prime Minster Boris Johnson to use their persuasive skills to highlight and take a more holistic approach and attitude to the private rented sector and tackle issues which affect a Bristol landlords’ […]
Portsmouth Homeowners £1,047,060,300 Windfall Since 2014
In the latest, and most recently published, set of UK mortgage data (for the month of November 2019) 18,470 pound-for-pound re-mortgages were made (i.e. the borrower went from one rate to another with no additional borrowing). However, since the 1970’s, the British have seen their homes as cash cows and cash machines, with many homeowners […]
Portsmouth Landlord’s £32.5m Tax Bill
I am asking Penny Mordaunt and Stephen Morgan the Conservative and Labour (respectively) MP’s for Portsmouth North and Portsmouth South to remind the Chancellor Sajid Javid and Prime Minster Boris Johnson to use their persuasive skills to highlight and take a more holistic approach and attitude to the private rented sector and tackle issues which affect […]
Get Ready To Buy
You’ve been putting what you can in savings for what feels like forever but suddenly it becomes a reality and owning your first home is just around the corner, but what can you do to make the final steps of the journey as easy as possible? I’ve compiled a short list of things you can […]
A decade in the Portsmouth property market
What has happened to the local Portsmouth property market in the last decade? The average Portsmouth property has risen in value from £165,400 to £240,900 in the last 10 years … meaning each Portsmouth homeowner has seen a profit of £145.19 per week for those last ten years. Rolling the clock back to the start […]
Is the Portsmouth property market bouncing back?
The Halifax announced in early January that there was a bounce in the national property market as they stated national property values soared 1.7% in December 2019 – the biggest rise since the 1.9% month on month rise in February 2007 (a few months before the Global Financial Crisis aka the Credit Crunch). The Halifax […]
The £1.1 billion mortgage debt of Portsmouth homeowners
Irrespective of the shenanigans and political goings on in Westminster recently, the housing market (for the time being anyway) shows a striking resilience, fostered by the on-going wide-ranging monetary policy by the Bank of England. With interest rates and unemployment low, UKplc is heading into 2020 in reasonable condition. Additionally, despite the UK’s new homes industry improving […]
Portsmouth Buy to Let – Past, Present and Future
Investing in a Portsmouth buy to let property has become a very different sport over the last few years. In the glory days of the five years after the turn of the Millennium, where we had double-digit house price growth, mortgage companies (notably Northern Rock, HBOS and their ilk) desperate to get on the buy to let mortgage […]
BRISTOL RESIDENTIAL MARKET REPORT – OCTOBER 2019
Welcome to the October market report, where we cover the following topics. Are Bristol Builder’s Constructing the Wrong Type of Property? The British housing market has never been so newsworthy. Every other day, there is an article in the newspaper or online about impending house price drops, house price rises, building on green belt, mortgage […]