Feb 26, 2015 | Blog
Interesting research about tenants and repairs. Also a surprise warning for landlords! The research also highlighted that just a third of tenants would rather deal with a landlord than a letting agent and one in six tenants have experienced bad landlords in the past....
Feb 23, 2015 | Blog
The prospect of a general election has minimal impact on the property market, according to a new report released by global property firm CBRE. It is commonly reported that the property market slows in the run up to a general election as property purchasers and sellers...
Feb 19, 2015 | Blog
Downsizing – the act of trading down from a detached house to a bungalow or semi-detached property – has become increasingly popular for many adults in the UK and it can be a shrewd method of making additional money. Lloyds recently declared that last year’s average...
Feb 19, 2015 | Blog
Analysis by a high end estate agent has revealed that 2.5% of homes in London would be affected by a planned ‘mansion tax’ on properties worth more than £2 million. To measure how this impact on the capital equates to the rest of the country, Knight Frank examined ten...
Feb 19, 2015 | Blog
This week houses made of straw went on the open market for the first time. A row of seven straw houses in Bristol have now become the first to secure building certification which makes them eligible for a standard mortgage. The properties, consisting of two and...
Feb 19, 2015 | Blog
Over one million new homes could be built over the next decade if each of the 353 councils in England built just one garden village of 3,000 new homes. This is the finding of a new report by think tank Policy Exchange which argues that a future government should...
