Manchester Property News

As the trees turn from green to hues of red and brown, the Stockport property market has a confident feel to it. With the underlying fundamentals of a continued lack of properties being built, a shortage of properties (both in terms of quantity and quality) ...

This two bedroom two bathroom apartment is on the market at £199,500 and is located in a hugely desirable area of West Didsbury. It is currently rented out at £1000pcm and is therefore of offering a gross yield of 6%.

https://peteranthony.co.uk/property/Montmano-Drive--Manchester-10003474

The rental market in that area ...

A few weeks ago I was asked a fascinating question by one of my landlords who has children of his own – “Are Stockport Landlords meeting the challenges of tenanted families bringing up their children in Stockport?”  It is certainly an interesting question to be ...

You might ask, what has the plight of the Stockport savers to do with the Stockport Property Market … everything in fact.  Read the newspapers, and every financial wizard is stating that with the decision of the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee in early ...

Three months after the Brexit referendum and there certainly has been no property market apocalypse as some had predicted. As ever, us Brits are very good at keeping calm and carrying on. Fortunately, the referendum itself was simply a pointer to change, not a change ...

I had an interesting chat with a Manchester landlord who owns a few properties in and around the city. He popped his head in to my office as his wife was shopping in the area (and let’s be honest talking about the Manchester Property Market ...

I had an interesting question the other day from a homeowner in Davenport who asked me the difference between asking prices and values and why it mattered. When it comes to selling property, there must be agreement between the purchaser (buyer) and seller (vendor) for ...

New Prime Minister, Theresa May, has taken no time at all to comment on housing in the UK. Speaking in Birmingham, she said it was important to give people more opportunity: “It is why housing matters so much, and why we need to do far ...

If you can think back to April 1st for a minute.. this date was definitely no joke for some landlords, as they rushed their buy-to-let property purchases throughout late March to beat the extra 3% stamp duty George Osborne imposed on investment properties after the ...

I was helping my mum move house the other day as she had sold her house and was moving into a smaller rent retirement apartment as it was easier for her as she now didn’t have to worry about stairs. I remembered reading a survey ...

I was talking to an investor from London that had popped into my office over the weekend. He is looking to purchase a property to rent out in Levenshulme but he wasn’t sure if he should buy a two-bedroom terrace or a three-bedroom terrace. The ...

I got chatting to one of my landlords the other day over coffee and we got talking about the difference in prices between the SK2 and SK3 postcodes within Stockport. My landlord owns a reasonable number of properties within Stockport but the majority are within ...

Well its over 24 hours now since the electorate made their decision that the UK we will be leaving the EU. The FTSE and the pound dropped then recovered a bit as the day went on. The USA, Canada and Germany said they still want ...

It’s 5.50am as I start to type this article and David Dimbleby has just announced the UK will be leaving the EU as the final votes are counted. As most of the polls suggested a Remain Vote, it came as a surprise to most people, ...

Barley House on Marriot Street in Stockport is a superb one bedroom fourth floor apartment in a recently converted old office block. The property is modern through out and therefore requires no work to be able to let it out quickly.

In the current market you ...

In this post credit crunch world of sub terrain low interest and annuity rates the growth of buy to let since 2009 has been phenomenal.  So much so, there has been an evolution in purchase of property in the UK from that of just buying ...

I was having an interesting chat with a gentleman the other day at our office on Bramhall Lane about the local property market, as he was concerned his daughter would never be able to buy her own property, a place in Stockport that she herself ...

With the change in tax rules on second properties this years April Fools Day was no joke for some landlords, as they rushed their buy to let property purchases throughout late March to beat the extra 3% stamp duty George Osborne had imposed on buy to let ...

An Englishman’s home is his castle but when it comes to the UK the ‘Brit’s are still a nation of homeowners. It is interesting to note that up until the mid to late 1960’s more people rented their home (albeit mostly local council) than owned ...

I was at lunch the other day with a solicitor friend of mine and we got talking as usual about the current property market in Davenport and how it was doing and I thought I would share it with you.

Firstly you’ll all be aware ...