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Bristol Homeowners £3,862,014,900 Windfall Since 2014
In the latest, and most recently published, set of UK mortgage data (for the month of November 2019) 18,470 pound-for-pound re-mortgages were made (i.e. the borrower went from one rate to another with no additional borrowing). However, since the 1970’s, the British have seen their homes as cash cows and cash machines, with many homeowners […]
Bristol Landlord’s £71.1m Tax Bill
I am asking Kerry McCarthy, Darren Jones, Karin Smyth and Thangam Debbonaire the Labour MP’s for Bristol to remind the Chancellor Sajid Javid and Prime Minster Boris Johnson to use their persuasive skills to highlight and take a more holistic approach and attitude to the private rented sector and tackle issues which affect a Bristol landlords’ […]
Bristol Property Market … the Rollercoaster of the last Decade
Ah the 2010’s, the tens, the teens – I am not sure what we are supposed to call the decade that has just gone. No matter what it was called, the last decade was a tough one, so does it really matter that we never really got around to giving it a name? Some might say, […]
Will There Be a ‘Boris Bounce’ For the Bristol Property Market?
The Halifax announced in early January that there was a Boris Bounce in the national property market as they stated national property values soared 1.7% in December 2019 – the biggest rise since the 1.9% month on month rise in February 2007 (a few months before the Global Financial Crisis aka the Credit Crunch). Get […]
198 Bristol Landlords each risk a £5,000 fine in Spring 2020
Washing Machine Energy Ratings for Houses was the phrase one Bristol landlord told me a few years ago when we were talking about the colour bar chart graphs that every property has had for over 10 years now. Now these weren’t brought in to use the whole palate of ink in people’s printers, but to […]
BRISTOL RESIDENTIAL MARKET REPORT – DECEMBER 2019
Welcome to the December market report, where we cover the following topics. 204,727 People Live in Rented Accommodation in Bristol That number surprised you didn’t it? With the General Election done, I thought it time to reflect on renting in the manifestos and party-political broadcasts and ask why? As the best way to tell the […]
The £8.5 billion mortgage debt of Bristol homeowners
Irrespective of the shenanigans and political goings on in Westminster recently, the housing market (for the time being anyway) shows a striking resilience, fostered by the on-going wide-ranging monetary policy by the Bank of England. With interest rates and unemployment low, UKplc is heading into 2020 in reasonable condition. Additionally, despite the UK’s new homes industry improving […]
204,727 People Live in Rented Accommodation in Bristol
That number surprised you didn’t it? With the General Election done, I thought it time to reflect on renting in the manifestos and party-political broadcasts and ask why? As the best way to tell the future is to look at to the past, so we decided to look at the number of people who rented […]
Smart Tech
In today’s piece I want to talk about smart devices that can have an amazing impact on your home. Over the past 5 years we’ve seen an enormous uptake of smart devices being rolled out across the UK and much further afield, and for good reason. Helping you save those precious pennies and at the […]
Why hasn’t my home sold? Some tips to get you moving
You’ve made the decision to sale your home. You’ve touched up the décor, polished from top to bottom, placed the kids in isolation, mowed the lawn to within an inch of its life, been out viewing property and set your sites on ‘the dream house’, appointed your estate agent, then…… NOTHING! Follow these simple initiatives […]
BRISTOL RESIDENTIAL MARKET REPORT – NOVEMBER 2019
Welcome to the November market report, where we cover the following topics. Bristol Property Values 1.5% Lower Year-on-Year It seems that quite a few Bristol homeowners and Bristol landlords have become acclimatised to living with the uncertainty of Brexit throughout most of 2019, as figures show many of them decided to get on with living […]
Bristol Buy to Let – Past, Present and Future
Investing in a Bristol buy to let property has become a very different sport over the last few years. In the glory days of the five years after the turn of the Millennium, where we had double-digit house price growth, mortgage companies (notably Northern Rock, HBOS and their ilk) desperate to get on the buy to let mortgage […]