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 ‘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 [...]

A new Hartley’s style semi detached property coming onto the market this week with a large corner plot and requiring cosmetic updating throughout. The property is very well priced to reflect the work required and would be ideal for a wide range of buyers. With gardens to three sides it [...]

As 1 in 14 Didsbury homes are selling within a fortnight of coming to market  One of the most astounding things that has happened in the last 12 months was something that did not happen. Even after the country saw the deepest recession since the Great Freeze of 1709, with GDP [...]

Has there ever been a better time for Didsbury home sellers? The Didsbury property market, for people looking to sell, is at its sturdiest for at least the last five years with home buyers jumping on to the Didsbury property ladder with abandon. Didsbury house prices are anticipated to rise throughout [...]

The Chancellor Rishi Sunak announced two initiatives to keep the Didsbury property market firing on all cylinders into 2021. Firstly, the £500,000 zero-rate Stamp Duty band has been extended to the 30th June 2021. After then it will phase down to £250,000 for an additional three months, returning to the [...]