Professional help with your biggest purchase.
Nobody wants to operate on themselves and few would conduct their own divorce and yet almost everyone thinks that when it comes to finding a new home they are the best people to search for one, fall in love with it, evaluate it and then negotiate the best deal. TheContinue Reading
Top tips for buyers & sellers
In a helpful article in The Times property editor Carole Lewis has some useful tips for people thinking of buying or selling in the current market. Buyers1. Make friends with estate agents, consider employing a buying agent, you need to do everything you can to get first sight of properties preferablyContinue Reading
Shortage of stock.
Data out this morning from Rightmove highlights the shortage of homes for sale across the country. Newmarket tops the list. The town has seen a surge of 79% in sales agreed over the last year and a 49% drop in new sellers. Parts of Britain are so short of homesContinue Reading
Really useful people
From time to time we are asked if we know anyone who can… So here is a list of tradesmen* and others who we or our clients have used in the past. Asbestos Surveyors – Kim Francis at AzMatt https://www.asmattltd.co.uk Japanese Knotweed – Richard Slade at Environet https://www.environetuk.com Electrical testContinue Reading
Four in a day.
Friday 13th wasn’t ill-fated for us it turned out. We had four exchanges in one day making five in total for the week with two other purchases completing. £10m worth of homes on one day. Rosie got two deals over the line making three in total for her. The firstContinue Reading
Covid business
A selection of the 30+ homes that we have helped acquire during the Covid pandemic totalling over £75m. 25% were ‘off market’, 75% agreed below asking price.Continue Reading
August house prices
House prices are still rising just not quite as fast as they were earlier this year according the Halifax. This month the ‘average’ house is currently £261,221 and leaving prices 7.6% higher than at the same time last year. In a blizzard of half year results estate agents and houseContinue Reading
Italy – 17th – 30th August
Like everyone else I’ve been stuck, often locked down for eighteen months and l’m dying for some sunshine. I’m in Italy for two weeks leaving Rosie and Kate in charge. If you need anything please email, text or phone.Continue Reading
Still no stock!
The latest monthly RICS survey of their members who sell homes says that price rises are slowing but that a shortage of homes for sale is a large part of what is keeping prices boiling. There is no expectation that prices will fall, just that the pace at which theyContinue Reading
BBC MoneyBox 19th June 2021
My contribution to Moneybox about the rush to beat the extended Stamp Duty Deadline at the end of June.Continue Reading
Prices up, supply down.
The monthly RICS housing sentiment survey is widely reported this morning highlighting two things – that prices are up and that the supply of homes for sale is down. I keep my own tally of unique listings drawn from Rightmove and Zoopla. It’s not an exact science but having strippedContinue Reading