Traditionally, the first four months of the year are usually an estate agents’ busiest time for house sales. However, if the last three years have taught us anything, nothing is ‘normal’ and ‘usual’ anymore. The SE16 property market is finding that with the friction of higher mortgage rates and the effects of inflation on household… Continue reading Is it Now or Never for the SE16 Property Market?

SE16 Homeowners – Do you know how big your SE16 home is? What is the square footage of your SE16 home? Don’t worry, most of us don’t – yet it could be fundamental as SE16 home buyers search for new homes. Us Brits are obsessed with our homes, yet most SE16 homeowners need to learn… Continue reading Is your SE16 home bigger than 764 sq ft?

The share of Brits moving each year has been declining since the late 1980s (when at one stage, people moved every eight years), yet since the pandemic’s beginning, something has appeared to upset that trend. Newspaper stories and social media posts painted a picture of homeowners moving from the city centres to its suburbs, from the… Continue reading 50% of SE16 house sellers in 2022 had only been in their old home on average 6 years and 35 weeks

Over the last five years, life has become a little trickier for SE16 landlords, with changes to their taxation status, mortgage interest relief and an additional 3% stamp duty for a buy-to-let property, and has made lots of SE16 landlords ask themselves: ‘Is buy-to-let in SE16 still worth the risk?’ Regarding taxation, in 2016, the Government… Continue reading Is Buy-to-Let in SE16 Still Worth the Risk?

Read the article to find out what is happening to the SE16 property market. As we enter February, the SE16 (and British) property market is full of mixed messages. Whilst the Bank of England increased the base rate 10 times in 2022, meaning they are now at 4% (3.5% higher than 12 months ago), mortgage… Continue reading SE16 Property Market Update: February 2023

In her first conference speech as the Tory’s new leader in 1975, the grocer’s daughter from Grantham, Margaret Thatcher, asserted her conviction in a ‘property-owning democracy’. Although Thatcher didn’t conceive the saying – (that credit belonged to Conservative MP Noel Skelton in 1923), it encapsulated what she thought Britain should be. Through prudence, saving and… Continue reading Thatcher’s Dream Alive as Homeownership in SE16 Increases

Some of you reading this will be old enough to remember the 1970s – the bell-bottom trousers, the huge collars, frayed jeans, disco glitter balls, maxi dresses, midi skirts but above everything else – HYPER-INFLATION. With inflation currently standing at 11.1%, many of us envy the last few years when we have been lucky to… Continue reading Inflation – Every SE16 Landlords’ Saviour