The number of properties for sale in Stockport has fallen by 29% since this time two years ago (October 2019). One of the reasons is that many Stockport buyers feel overwhelmed and fearful they will be made homeless if they sell their home and can’t buy another. So, I have [...]

Stockport landlords are becoming progressively more self-assured about expanding their rental portfolios; as Stockport rents rise, mortgage interest rates fall and demand for decent Stockport 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 Stockport homeowner, first-time buyer or landlord; the last 15 months has been a roller coaster ride when it comes to the Stockport 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 [...]

I know of many Stockport buy-to-let landlords who fell into property investing by accident. Many didn’t want to sell their family home when the Stockport housing market crashed in the Credit Crunch of 2009/10, yet still needed to move (often for work). They thought they would keep their Stockport family [...]

The Semi-Detached House – the icon of middle-class aspiration, the pinnacle of liberalism yet at the same time compromised individuality, the ‘semi’ as it is colloquially termed is, for many Stockport homeowners, the highpoint of modern domestic bliss. Britain’s gift to architecture is the humble ‘Semi-Detached House’. This type of [...]

The value of an average Stockport semi-detached house has increased in value by £19,407 in the last 12 months, an increase in value of 7.13%. Yet the costs of building a Stockport home have shot up even more in the last 12 months, meaning the price of Stockport new homes [...]

There is no getting away from the fact that the rise in the number of buy-to-let properties in Stockport 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 [...]

As 1 in 6 Stockport 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 [...]

The Chancellor Rishi Sunak announced two initiatives to keep the Stockport 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 [...]