Liverpool Property News

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, ...

The Liverpool housing market is a fascinating beast and has been particularly interesting since the Credit Crunch of 2008/9 with the subsequent property market crash. There is currently some talk of a ‘property bubble’ nationally as Brexit seems to be the ‘go-to’ excuse for every ...

If you consider the factors that convince many people to become landlords, you will find that Liverpool is hugely attractive. This is a city with a lot of development work taking place and there is a sizable student population in the city. When it comes ...

As we leave the memorably hot summer behind us, some interesting statistics have come to light on the Liverpool Property Market which will be thought provoking for both homeowners and buy to let landlords alike.

Over the last 12 months 7,496 households have changed hands ...

There is no escaping the fact that over the last couple of decades, the rise in the number buy to let properties in Liverpool has been nothing short of extraordinary.  Many in the “left leaning” press have spoken of a broken nation, the fact ...

I was recently reading a report by Rightmove that a North South Divide has started to appear in the UK property market – so I wanted to see if Liverpool was falling in line with those thoughts.  In the North, there are 7.12% less properties on the market ...

The number of residential property transactions in Liverpool will be 5.7 per cent lower in 2018, compared to 2017.

 

According to my research, the seasonally adjusted statistics for our local authority area suggest with the number of properties already sold in 2018, and the number of properties currently under offer ...

Whether you are a Liverpool landlord looking to liquidate your buy to let investment or a homeowner looking to sell your home, finding a buyer and selling your property can take an annoyingly long time. It is a step-by-step process that can take months and ...

Living in our own homes or owning buy to let property in Liverpool and the surrounding areas, it’s often easy to ignore the regional and national picture when it comes to property. As a homeowner or landlord in Liverpool, consideration must be given to these ...

Over the last twenty years, there has been a shift in the way the Liverpool (and the UK’s) property market works. In the 1960’s, 70’s, 80’s and 90’s, a large majority of twenty somethings saved up their 5% deposit, went without life’s luxuries of going ...

The current average value of a property in Liverpool currently stands at £167,500 and the base rates at 0.5%. In many of my articles, I talk about what is happening to property values over the short term (i.e. the last 12 months or the last ...

It is important for landlords, not just Liverpool landlords, across the country to know who your most likely tenant is, or which tenant is likely to be the best option for you. In Liverpool, the prominent level of demand for student accommodation and the number ...

My analysis has shown that up to the end of the last quarter, Liverpool first time buyers purchased 2,294 Liverpool properties.  With wages rising at 2.8%, unemployment at a low rate of 4.2% (down from 4.6% from a year earlier and the joint lowest ...

Should you, as a landlord for buy to let or for personal occupation, buy a brand-new home?

 

Well, let’s start by looking at the numbers …

 

Over the last 10 years, 7,366 new homes have been built in the Liverpool area

 

That is a lot of bricks ...

I am of the opinion that buy to let investment in Liverpool, in the long-term, will bring substantial returns for landlords, irrespective of latest regulation and tax changes.

Taking a very conservative (with a small ‘c’) view, I believe landlords will see a projected net ...

And if it does... who will be the winners and losers?

Those Liverpool people wanting property values to drop would be those 30 or 40 something’s, sitting on a sizeable amount of equity and hoping to trade up (because the percentage drop of your ...