6 years ago
If you are buying a home in England costing more than £125,000, you will have to pay Stamp Duty Land Tax on the purchase of your new home. In the provinces, it’s called something slightly different, so if you…
7 years ago
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…
7 years ago
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…
8 years ago
In our blog about the Newbury Property Market we mostly talk about two of the three main sectors of the local property market, the ‘private rented sector’ and the ‘owner occupier sector’. However, as we often stress when talking…
8 years ago
As I have mentioned a number times in my local property market blog, with not enough new-build properties being built in Newbury and the surrounding area to keep up with demand for homes to live in (be that tenants…
9 years ago
Market comment from Lee Fenn-Tripp of Downer & Co Looking at the newspapers between Christmas and New Year, it seemed that this year’s sport in the column inches was to predict the future of the British housing market. So…