Buy-to-let market tracker
A really useful tool from Telegraph helps you to discover where to invest in property for the best rental yields, the highest demand and how much profit you could make. Remember, the yield reflects the risk to the investor. The people of Newcastle aren’t just generous offering higher yields thanContinue Reading
The rise of the secret property market (and how to break into it)
Useful guide to the merits of retaining a buying agent by Sybilla Hart in the Telegraph including generous comments from my favourite clients who bought last year.Continue Reading
‘Why are there so few homes for sale?’
There is a superb article in the FT that’s worth a subscription to the paper alone! I’m not going to reproduce the whole article (mindful of the rules of Copyright etc.,) but I wanted to share the meat of the piece for those trying to find a home to moveContinue Reading
Would you pay thousands to a buying agent to find your dream home? Here’s how it works
In this weeks Sunday Times Hugh Graham explains about the rise of off-market sales which doubled last year according to Hamptons. The supply crisis is hitting homes hard. It’s not just a lack of building materials, labour shortages and difficulty sourcing trendy taps and tiles, it is about finding aContinue Reading
Shortage of homes for sale
There are just 12 properties available for sale per estate agency branch, according to all-seeing Rightmove. Buyers have snapped up the few homes on the market with the average time to find a buyer two weeks shorter in Dec 2021 compared with the previous year. Meanwhile TwentiCi told The TimesContinue Reading
All done in ’21
36 homes bought this year totalling £94m. 45 offers made and 6 ‘under offer’ or in solicitors hands as we head into ’22. Prices ranged from £650,000 to £10m, the average price paid was £2.67m. The biggest discount-to-asking price was £600k. The biggest premium-to-asking price £150k which just goes toContinue Reading