10 years ago
That isn’t a typo, of the 16,375 households in Newbury, 5,916 of those properties don’t only have one spare bedroom, but two spare bedrooms! … and it is this topic I want to talk about this week, my Newbury…
11 years ago
The ‘Right to Buy’ scheme was a policy introduced by Maggie Thatcher in 1980 which gave secure council tenants the legal right to buy the Council home they were living in with huge discounts. The heyday of Council ‘Right…
11 years ago
Newbury’s continuing housing shortage is putting the town’s (and the Country’s) repute as a nation of homeowners ‘under threat’, as the number of houses being built continues to be woefully inadequate in meeting the ever demanding needs of the…
11 years ago
My parents bought their first house in the 1980s, they were in their early 20’s. Interestingly, looking at some research by the Post Office from a few years ago, in the 1960’s the average age people bought their first…
11 years ago
Well, we are well into the new year and I remembered that a few days before Christmas, I got chatting with one of my out of town landlords who was back in Newbury visiting his family. Brought up in…
11 years ago
One of my landlords rang me last week from Speen, after he had spoken to a friend of his. Over Christmas, they were discussing the Newbury property market and neither of them could make their mind up if it…