When making home improvements, many dive into the project with a short-term budget in mind. Yet they don’t fully consider whether making the “improvement” will benefit the home’s overall value when it comes to selling in the future. To help make renovation decisions easier, home improvers Lucie Levesley, Director at Jackson Woodturners stair part specialists and Kevin Gaskell, Director at...
“We’re yet to see any real signs of a notable drop in house prices despite a turbulent few months and now that the government has steadied the waters, any movement is likely to be a gradual return to normality rather than a sheer market crash.
Of course, tomorrow’s Autumn Budget could put the cat amongst the pigeons in this...
What would happen to house prices if they kept pace with the energy cap increase?
The latest research by estate agent comparison site, GetAgent.co.uk , has revealed what the average cost of buying and renting a home would look like if house prices increased at the same rate as the spiralling cost of energy bills.
GetAgent looked at the growth rate of the current energy cap since...
Research from the team behind the Property Investor Show reveals that despite a bumper year for stock markets in 2021, the buoyant UK property market still managed to beat it on growth.
According to the Government’s Housing Market Index prices across the United Kingdom rose by 10.8% in the last twelve months whereas the FTSE 100 index of leading shares saw an uplift of 9.6%. And so...
OnlineMortgageAdvisor.co.uk can reveal that there are 705 streets with a romantic name in the UK. The most romantic region is the South East of England where you can find a whopping 115 streets containing a love-related term in their name.
In second place is the East of England with 109 romantic streets , followed by Yorkshire and the...
The latest property market analysis by London lettings and estate agent, Benham and Reeves , has revealed that staging your home during the selling process could boost your sale price by as much as £47,000.
Staging is generally considered to be an American property market import, but it really just requires a few finishing touches in addition to the work we already put in before...
The True Price of Safety: How Much Value Can Having a House Alarm Add to Your Home?
Right after our physiological needs, our second most fundamental requirements are to feel safe and secure. Feeling safe in our own homes is imperative, and whilst the way safety measures make us feel is of the upmost importance, can additional safety measures also add value to a property?
Research by the estate agent comparison site, GetAgent.co.uk , reveals that the stamp duty holiday has increased the price of first-time buyer homes by an average of 11.7% in England in the last year, and by as much as 31.5% in some areas of the country.
The stamp duty holiday was introduced as a financial incentive to keep the housing market buoyant during the pandemic and thus...
Research from the national estate agent, Keller Williams UK , has revealed which autumn-themed road names command the highest house prices on the property market.
To celebrate this turning of the seasons, Keller Williams has studied transaction history for some of the UK’s autumn-themed street names to discover which ones command the highest average house price.
