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Market Comment: October 2022

Property Market Report: October 2022 In this video, recorded on the 1/10/22, we chat about the news headlines following the weeks mini budget and how

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September 2022 Market Comment

September 2022 Property Market Report Welcome to the September 2022 property market comment.  There is no denying that the incredibly strong property market we have

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August 2022 Market Comment

August 2022 Property Market Report Welcome to the August 2022 property market comment. So far this year, we have seen continued growth in the property

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June 2022 Market Comment

June 2022 Property Market Report Welcome to the June 2022 property market comment. The Jubilee weekend kicked off the summer in style, although from a

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May 2022 Market Comment

May 2022 Property Market Report As you may know, the Bank of England has just announced a further 0.25% increase in interest rates. That’s the

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April 2022 Market Comment

April 2022 Property Market Report As we enter the spring, the traditional spring market doesn’t quite feel that way yet! The acute shortage of stock

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March 2022 Market Comment

March 2022 Property Market Report As we exit what has been an extraordinarily upbeat winter in terms of the property market, we enter a slightly

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February 2022 Market Comment

It’s well known that confidence is key to a healthy property market. Or it used to be at least. The pandemic didn’t dent it – quite the opposite in fact, with the average house price having risen over 11% in the past year (Source: Nationwide). Could issues such as rapidly

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How We Protect You​

Propertymark promotes higher standards than the law demands and campaigns for more laws and enforcement to regulate the sector. They hold us accountable in order to protect you, the consumer and your money.

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“Moving House” may be the term we commonly use, but moving HOME is surely a better description for one of life’s more stressful experiences. Few changes, other than a relationship, can stir such emotions.

As estate agents, we are effectively “agents of change” and whilst our natural focus might be to help people move in

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November 2021 Market Comment

Here’s a quick overview of the property market this November.

The manic race for space prompted by the SDLT concession has definitely started to ease and we are now experiencing a near-normal healthy property market, albeit with a little less stock than expected, because we have sold most of it!

According to the Halifax, the

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October 2021 Market Comment

Here’s a quick overview of the property market this October.

According to the Nationwide, annual house price growth last month was still very strong at about 10%, although this was down from 11% in August, and no doubt supported by the tail end of the SDLT concession which has now come to an end.

It

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Stress-Free Completion

One of the frustrations with the system of property transfer in this country is that moving day invariably coincides with the formal completion of a sale.

Generally, the buyer cannot move out, and the seller cannot move in, until such time as the completion monies have been received by the seller’s bank, or in most

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Chains

Many property transactions form part of a chain of related sales. Of course a chain is only as strong as its weakest link and, as a national statistic, unfortunately one in every three chains will fall apart, often at the eleventh hour. This happens for a variety of reasons from one party’s mortgage glitch to

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September 2021 Market Comment

According to the Nationwide, the average house price across the UK is up 11% on last year prompted, as we know, by three things: 1) Pent-up demand following three years of Brexit confusion, 2) The SDLT (stamp duty) holiday coupled with ultra-low mortgage rates, and 3) Lifestyle changes prompted by the pandemic. Interestingly, the average

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