Manchester Property News

David Boyd, Managing Director, PAD4U Estate and Letting Agents Mancheste r writes:

There has been a wealth of news regarding UK property prices this week, so lets take a look and see what we can learn.  First up Nationwide reported prices up 0.3% in February, making ...

PAD4U are pleased to join the Levenshulme Tagpassit on scheme.

Tagpassiton is a local community scheme that is linked by a card. It involves many of Levenshulme’s local traders including PAD4U. One card allows you to get special discounts across Food & Drink, Leisure & Activities,Shopping, ...

David Boyd, Managing Director, PAD4U Estate and Letting Agents Mancheste r writes:

I recently caught up with a colleague of mine James Kirkman, who has been working on helping UK property investors invest in the German property market.  Usually I steer well clear of investing in property abroad, ...

David Boyd, Managing Director, PAD4U Estate and Letting Agents Mancheste r writes:

Today a number of changes have now gone live to the secure landlords area of the PAD4U website, that will allow PAD4U landlords to view recent rents received and property balances which are updated ...

Catherine, Fresh Partnership, Mortgage Brokers for PAD4U, writes:

Over the last few weeks I have noticed an increase demand for re-mortgage products, both from residential and investor clients.  This is possibly due to the amount of press speculation that swap rates have increased.  Also, I ...

David Boyd, Managing Director, PAD4U Estate and Letting Agents Mancheste r looks into the crystal ball:

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Predicting the property market, like the weather, can be an embarrassing task.  For all the news stories of property prices over the last year, nothing much happened (prices ended slightly higher over the ...

Basma Ahmad has called into our office and been presented with her Vouchers this week. We are very pleased to announce that her drawing has been sent to the printers and the ‘welcome to your new home’ cards will be implemented next year.[gallery] Basma’s drawing will ...

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PAD4U are where pleased to be involved with this year’s Levenshulme Christmas Light Switch on. The event took place on Tuesday 30th November at the Village Green, local children were invited to meet Farther Christmas and receive a free present. A local school choir spread Christmas ...

PAD4U's opening times for the  festive period are as follows:

Just a reminder which I am sure every Landlord is prepared for is the VAT increase to 20% with effect from 4th Januray 2011.

All work carried out and completed *before* this date will be invoiced at the previous rate of 17.5%.

Our systems will ...

A  great big thank you to everyone who entered our completion throughout November. We have been overwhelmed by pictures! We have found it very difficult to choose a winner, but ultimately we decided on Basma Ahmad (Age 9). Well done to everyone who entered, a few of the ...

If you didn't know already the Levenshulme Festival is in full swing.  Please visit http://www.levenshulmefestival.co.uk to find out about upcoming events there isn't much time left!  Last night PAD4U were invited to the Levenshulme Traders evening @M19 Bar, which was a great event with local ...

David Boyd, Managing Director, PAD4U Estate and Letting Agents Mancheste r writes:

I have listened to many landlords who have experienced difficulties (and lost money) after not assessing and managing the various risks associated with being a landlord.  I hope this article will help new landlords ...

David Boyd, Managing Director, PAD4U Estate and Letting Agents Mancheste r writes:

The Government plans to cut Housing Benefit have been receiving their fair share of attention by the media recently.  Whilst I applaud any scrutiny of Housing Benefit, I find it difficult to watch or ...

We have been approached by a client who requires a quick sale of their property and this will be sold, in my opinion, at a discounted price to the market.

The property is situated in Levenshulme M19 post code and is a two bed garden ...

Matt Binns, Negotiator, PAD4U Estate and Letting Agents Mancheste r writes:

Over 800,000 jobs were lost during the recession, and with another 490,000 public sector job losses announced as part of the Government Spending Review many tenants could come under increasing financial pressure over the coming ...

Where's the real value in your property? New investors into the market regularly ask this question The true value in your property... Most people think that "bricks and mortar" is the real investment when buying property but that isn't exactly the case. You see if you look at the ...

Alaine Bradbury, Estates Manager for PAD4U writes:

Research has recently been published by the National Landlords Association (NLA) showing that nearly half of recent possessions by landlords are due to tenants not paying their rent.

We have found that over the last 12 months many ...

David Boyd, Managing Director, PAD4U Letting Agents Manchester writes:

Paragon have performed well during the recessions and this is bourne out by the fact they expect full-year profit to be at the upper end of analysts forecasts (40.5million-65million).

Perhaps more importantly Paragon's book has performed very well ...