Manchester Property News

All property owners, whether you are looking to sell your home soon or not, should be interested in improving the value of your home. You don’t have to consider your home as an asset or an investment to want to increase its value. In fact, ...

It is no surprise that many people are looking for the best way to invest their money. We all want to be confident about our future and with pension reforms in the UK seeing people having to work for more years before they receive the ...

It can seem as though everyone has an interest in the UK property market. It is only natural for people who are keen to buy or sell property to stay aware of how the market is performing, but house prices and demand are main talking ...

While the UK property market is fast-moving at times, you often need to wait a while to learn what impact a prominent change has had. However, the level of interest in the property market is such that people are desperate to see what is likely ...

New data from UK Finance shows that landlord investment in London has dropped by 50% since last year, meaning Manchester is rapidly becoming the most attractive place for the UK’s buy-to-let landlord.

The tax changes of higher stamp duty for buyers of second homes is ...

City house price growth is currently at 5.3% down from 8.7% of April 2016. Out of only eleven cities that have a faster growth rate this year than last, Manchester has the fastest with a growth rate of 8.4%, increasing by 2.1% from last year. ...

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I was speaking to a landlord the other day who had called into our office for advice as he had let his property out through gumtree and now his tenant wasn't paying the rent.

This got me thinking about the state of arrears in the ...

Recent statistics published by the Office of National Statistics show that there are 267,704 private rented households in the Country that are occupied by people aged 65 and older, meaning 4.39% of OAP’s are living in private rented property.

It got me thinking two things. ...

If I were a buy to let landlord in Stockport today, I might feel a little bruised by the assault made on my wallet after the last 12 months by HM Treasury’s tax changes on buy to let. With 13,852 households in private rented properties ...

As we start the new year we have decided to enhance the marketing of some of our sales and rental properties. We now offer a HD video tour, shot in a movie style which in our opinion will help attract buyers and renters to a ...

Well, it doesn’t seem like two minutes ago that it was Christmas – and now it’s all over! One cold December morning, after arranging the office’s Christmas cards I thought I would nip out for a quick festive coffee and mince pie at my favourite ...

Figures just released by the Bank of England, show that for the first half of 2016, £128.73bn was lent by UK banks to buy UK property - impressive when you consider only £106.7bn was lent in the first half of 2015. Even more interesting, was ...

Pictures can be deceiving when looking for potential properties for buy to let. An example is this one on Craig Road in Gorton. From the photos, it looks a bit of a shocker, however there isn’t much wrong with it that a new bathroom, painting, ...

Back in the Spring, there was a surge in South Manchester landlords buying buy to let property in Levenshulme and Burnage as they tried to beat George Osborne’s new stamp duty changes which kicked in on the 1st April 2016.  To give you an idea ...

• Tenant Fees set to banned within 12 to 18 months
• Rents due to rise as those fees passed to Landlords
• Landlords won’t be worse off – and neither will tenants or agents

With our new Chancellor of the Exchequer revealing a ban on tenant fees ...

I was having a most interesting chat the other day with a Stockport landlord when we were looking at a property. We got talking about the Stockport Property Market and this landlord brought up the subject of a report he had read from the Royal ...

Well the clocks have now gone back and depressingly it’s getting dark before 5pm in Manchester. The daily morning chore of de-icing the car has started. Winter can be a tough time for everyone – but none more so than for many landlords.

These colder ...

It is always nice to come in to work and open your emails to good news! This was certainly the case the other day when I received an email from the review site Allagents.co.uk to say we had been awarded best letting agent in M19 for ...

This two-bedroom mid terraced property which is located in a popular area of Levenshulme is offering excellent value for a rental property. With an asking price of £109,950 it is below the stamp duty threshold so for a second property you are not being hit ...