Liverpool Property News

Over the last 5 years, we have seen some interesting subtle changes to the Liverpool property market as buying patterns of landlords have changed ever so slightly.

The background to this story was the recently published set of buy-to-let (BTL) lending statistics. Roll the clock ...

With the Government preparing to control tenant’s deposits at five weeks rent, Liverpool landlords will soon only be protected in the event of a single month of unpaid rental-arrears, at a time when Universal Credit has seen some rent arrears quadrupling and that’s before you ...

Liverpool property values are unexpectedly 5.8% higher than at the end of 2017, notwithstanding the uncertainty and threats over the potential impact of Brexit in 2019. This has exceeded all the predictions (aka guesses) of all the City of London economists, in an astonishing sign of strength for the ...

It is vital that landlords are fully informed of the regulatory matters that impact on their business. This is the case for national licencing matters, but it is also the same for local matters. As of April 2019, landlords who rent property in Seacombe, Hamilton ...

The conventional way of categorising property in Britain is to look at the number of bedrooms rather than its size in square metres (square feet for those of you over 50!). My intuition tells me that homeowners and tenants are happy to pay for more space. It’s quite obvious, ...

No matter how experienced a landlord you are, it is vital that you remain up to date with the latest rules and regulations in the letting industry. There have been many changes in recent times but if you believed that 2019 would see landlords having ...

For most Liverpool people, a mortgage is the only way to buy a property. However, for some, especially Liverpool homeowners who have paid off their mortgage or Liverpool buy to let landlords, many have the choice to pay exclusively with cash. So the question is, ...

As we go full steam ahead into 2019, it’s certain that the Liverpool housing market in 2018 was a little more restrained than 2016 and 2017 and I believe this will continue into 2019. Property ownership is a medium to long term investment so, looking ...

You read the personal finance pages of the newspapers and it all seems to be the impending pensions crisis ... where people aren’t saving enough for their retirement. But it’s not the lack of Liverpool peoples’ future pension incomes that are my immediate concern. The ...

With constant advances in technology, medicine and lifestyles, people in the Liverpool area are, on average, living longer than they might have a few decades ago. As Liverpool's population ages, the problem of how the older generation are accommodated is starting to emerge. We, as a city, have to ...

It’s now commonly agreed amongst economists and the general public that the dramatic rise in Liverpool property prices of the last six years has come to an end.

Read the National newspapers, and they talk of doom and gloom in the British housing market with such things as ...

There is no denying that work must be done to help people get on to the property ladder. There are many people who are happy to rent, but there are also people who are keen to buy property but find that they are unable to. ...

Following on from my last article, if you recall I said that Waterloo Road had the most properties sold in the L3 Liverpool postcode, yet I felt that this information wasn’t telling the whole story, as some roads in Liverpool have more properties on them than others. Therefore, ...

Many folks say moving home is the most stressful thing. Moving home is like someone (and that someone is usually you and you are the cause of this devastation) has collected all your worldly goods, put them into brown boxes and into a lorry making your whole life ...

A few months ago, I wrote an article on the Liverpool Property Blog about the length of time it took to sell a property in Liverpool and the saleability of the different price bands (i.e. whether the lower/middle or upper local property markets were ...

“I just love looking over and keeping up to date the 108 pieces of legislation that govern the rental of residential property in the UK”  

...No Liverpool Landlord, ever

 

If you are one of the 20,031 Liverpool landlord’s that manages your ...

The Budget which took place at the end of October was a hugely important one but as with most things in British politics of late, it was overshadowed by Brexit. This was billed as the final Budget before Brexit and most of the focus fell ...

The allAgents awards have been announced again and Peter Anthony Liverpool are pleased to share that we have won Gold Lettings Branch of the year and Silver Overall Branch of the year in L3!

As our Liverpool branch has only been open for 4 months, ...

If you pay even a remote level of attention to the news these days, you will know that the phrase No Deal Brexit is being used increasingly. We are still no closer to knowing what Brexit will mean to people when it occurs in 2019 ...

It doesn’t seem two minutes ago that it was 90 degrees Fahrenheit in the shade (32 degrees Celsius for my younger readers), hosepipe bans looked likely and it was simply too hot to sleep at night, yet early indications were, that as the temperatures soared, ...