Traditionally, if you had not sold your Didsbury home by the first week in November, you would normally have to wait for the house sellers to return in the famous Boxing Day rush on the portals (Rightmove, Zoopla etc) to get potential buyers interested. Yet matters have been different this [...]
The Government’s scheduled publication of their White Paper for the Renter's Reform Bill, which incorporates proposals to forbid Section 21 evictions and introduce ‘Lifetime Deposits’, has been suspended until 2022. The additional time is required to give a chance to create a level playing field to reforms for both landlords [...]
How far would you go to help your child get on in the world? Many Didsbury parents move area to ensure their child gets into the best primary school or fund their university costs. Many of you reading this have even helped your children with the deposit for their first [...]
The ‘Buy-To-Let’ (BTL) mortgage is celebrating its Silver Anniversary (25 years) this autumn. Isn’t it fascinating that a decision between a group of letting agents and bankers all that time ago to offer BTL mortgages has changed the face of the Didsbury (and national) property market? But has it been [...]
The number of properties for sale in Didsbury has fallen by 19% since this time a year ago (October 2020). One of the reasons is that many Didsbury buyers feel overwhelmed and fearful they will be made homeless if they sell their home and can’t buy another. So, I have [...]
Didsbury landlords are becoming progressively more self-assured about expanding their rental portfolios; as Didsbury rents rise, mortgage interest rates fall and demand for decent Didsbury rental properties outstrips supply. A number of reports nationally would suggest around a third of UK ‘portfolio’ landlords (i.e. landlords with more than one rental [...]
With Rightmove announcing a national drop of 0.3% in average asking prices in August, some are asking if the steam has been let out of the property market. Yet with the gains we have seen in the last 12 months, is this just a minor bump in the road? Alarm [...]
Whether you are a Didsbury homeowner, first-time buyer or landlord; the last 15 months has been a roller coaster ride when it comes to the Didsbury property market. With 213,120 UK house buyers and 58,580 UK tenants moving home in June, the summer has been manic for many people. Meaning [...]
The value of an average Didsbury semi-detached house has increased in value by £108,360 in the last 12 months, an increase in value of 8.1%. Yet the costs of building a Didsbury home have shot up even more in the last 12 months, meaning the price of Didsbury new homes and [...]
There is no getting away from the fact that the rise in the number of buy-to-let properties in Didsbury has been nothing short of astonishing over the last twenty years. As a result, many in the press have said Britain is a broken nation, with many twenty and thirty-somethings unable [...]
