Recent Articles in Selling a Home Checklists

Daily Mail article suggests price falls of 40% – what’s the real story?
Jul 3, 2017

Last year I predicted that the papers would start reporting pending property price crashes during April and May. Nothing clever about it, I just look at the figures for Q1 2016 which were skewed due to the 3% stamp duty and, if property prices/transactions then slowed as forecasted for Q1 2017, the papers would be able to populate headlines, whether a crash was coming or the market was just naturally slowing.

However, with an election to cover, the headlines took a little longer to come through than I thought...

What to do you if you can’t pay your mortgage
Jun 22, 2017

Life is full of surprises and can be going perfectly smoothly one day, before the rug is pulled from under your feet the next. Redundancy, illness and relationship breakdowns are all bad enough on their own, but when they result in you potentially losing your home, too, they can be devastating. What can you do if the happens to you?

Is your London borough growing or slowing?
Jun 19, 2017

What's the current property price situation in London - are prices growing or slowing?

Taking the fear out of downsizing for an ageing population
Jun 14, 2017

The hot topic in housing is the struggle facing young people as they try to get on the property ladder. But what about their grandparents? They face what is, in my view, an equally difficult issue: whether to move from their home to somewhere more suitable for independent living in their later years.

The UK’s most comprehensive property price summary for April 2017
Apr 18, 2017

Despite a slowing market, and misleading headlines about house price crashes, I’m happy to report that people’s confidence doesn’t seem to be eroded by reports of a fall in property price growth. This is good news, because low confidence can drive down prices further.