Manchester Property News
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Winter Gardening Tips for January and February
You may not think there is a lot you can do in your garden this winter but there are a number of steps you can take to be active in your garden this January and February. If you are looking to create the best platform ... -
Video Tours
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 ...Read More -
M19 Property Market Sees An Unpredicted Autumn Boost of 6.3%
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 ... -
Stockport First Time Buyers Are Paying 7% More Than 12 Months Ago
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 ... -
Christmas Opening Times
We would like to wish everybody a Very Happy Christmas & New Year.
During this period our office will be closed at certain times. Please see below our opening hours
23rd Dec - 9.30am - 4:00pm
Xmas eve – Closed
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Christmas in Manchester - 10 great things to see and do
There is no shortage of events to enjoy and thongs to see in Manchester and this is very much the case at Christmas time. If you are looking to make the most of Christmas in Manchester, here are 10 great things to see and do.... -
Gorton property with potential 7.2% yield!
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, ... -
Simple home staging tips for maximum impact
To sell your home effectively, it is vital that you make the effort to present your home in the best manner. This is referred to as staging your home and here are some simple staging tips that will create a maximum impact.When you are ...
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Average rent paid by Levenshulme and Burnage tenants rise to £768 per month
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 ... -
Stockport Landlords and Tenants : What does the Tenant Fee Banning order mean for you?
- 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 ...
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Private renting set to grow by 5,900 properties by 2025!
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 ... -
Top Tips – Protecting Your South Manchester & Stockport Property Over Winter
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 ...
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Best Letting Agent in M19
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 ... -
Great Buy to Let property with 7.1% potential yield!
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 ... -
Stockport Property Market in 2017 and Beyond
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) ...
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How has Brexit affected the property industry so far?
While we await the full outcome of what Brexit means to life in Great Britain, there has been an impact in a number of areas. There have been incidents which have caused people to question or re-examine society but there have been changes in the ... -
Great Investment Property 6% Yield
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 ... -
Only 29.24% of Stockport Rented Property have Children living in them.
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 ... -
Stockport savers batten down the hatches with low interest rates set to continue into the 2020's
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 ... -
September 2016 - South Manchester Property Market
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 ...
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