Recent Articles

Soft or hard landing for the Property Market in 2019? (in: Buying and Selling Property Checklists)
Mar 7, 2019

While Theresa May seems to be battling for a soft or hard Brexit, the property market this year could go one of three ways...

Kate's comprehensive property price update for February 2019 - data from the UK house price index (in: Buying and Selling Property Checklists)
Mar 7, 2019

Nearly all the indices are now heading to a ‘zero’ increase year on year, bar UK HPI which measures the market some months behind the rest. These figures would normally relate to ‘talk’ in the media of a house price crash, but as most of the reports point out, the market is surprisingly resilient considering the level of uncertainty, not just from Brexit but this month from a poor economic performance.

English Housing Survey Part 1: How do we put a roof over our heads? (in: First Time Buyer)
Mar 5, 2019

The English Housing Survey (EHS) is one of the most interesting and useful reports on our housing stock that exists. Whether you are a home owner or an investor, or just looking to buy your first property or rent, there are lots of useful pieces of information that can help you understand the market you own, invest or rent in. I have put together a series of articles that summarise the latest findings for housing in England and explains how our use of property is changing.  This is the first article on how people put a roof over their heads.

Are developers making large profits from the tax payer? (in: First Time Buyer Property Checklists)
Feb 13, 2019

A few weeks ago I was interviewed by Winifred Robinson on BBC Radio 4 You and Yours programme about new build developers. Currently, they are making substantial profits, yet not delivering the 300,000 homes that the government wants built every year and, in some cases, the quality of new builds seems to be going down the pan. Bearing in mind that developers have been supported by tax payers' money since the 2013 Help to Buy Scheme, You and Yours were asking whether people were getting a good return or if developers needed to do better.

In some areas over 40% of people think they can afford to buy their first home on their own
Feb 4, 2019

New research released by the Nottingham Building Society (The Nottingham) has revealed that first-time buyers in the East Midlands and Scotland are the most likely to buy alone when purchasing their first property.