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Did you know 2,738 Sittingbourne homeowners are considering selling their Sittingbourne home between now and the summer of 2023? Reports in the press suggest 1 in 5 homeowners are considering moving home in the next 18 months. This will change the dynamics of selling your home in Sittingbourne, meaning there are certain matters that you,Continue reading “The 7 Things Sittingbourne Home Sellers Should (and Shouldn’t) Do in 2022”

Traditionally, if you had not sold your Faversham home by the first week in November, you would normally have to wait for the house sellers to return in the famous Boxing Day rush on the portals (Rightmove, Zoopla etc) to get potential buyers interested. Yet matters have been different this year as the various lockdownsContinue reading “What Will Happen to Faversham House Prices in 2022?”

Everyone should be doing their bit to help reduce the UK’s carbon footprint on the globe – yet the question is, is that burden being put too much on the shoulders of Swale landlords with potential bills of £7,600+ in the next four years? The background – the UK has obligated itself to a legallyContinue reading “Should Swale Landlords be worried about these new rental regulations?”

House prices tend to rise with inflation, so with the UK annual inflation hitting 4.2% last week, that’s good news, isn’t it? Yes and no – let me explain what it means for Sittingbourne homeowners. The year-on-year cost of living rose by 4.2% in October, its highest rate in almost a decade. The jump inContinue reading “Sittingbourne House Prices – The Effect of Rising Inflation”

The Government’s scheduled publication of their White Paper for the Renter’s Reform Bill, which incorporates proposals to forbid Section 21 evictions and introduce ‘Lifetime Deposits’, has been suspended until 2022. The additional time is required to give a chance to create a level playing field to reforms for both landlords and tenants in the privateContinue reading “With Faversham Tenants Deposits Totalling £1,571,975, How Will ‘Lifetime Deposits’ Change the Faversham Rental Market?”

In recent articles on the Sittingbourne property market, I have been talking a lot about house prices over the last 12 months and 5 years in Sittingbourne.   When it comes to newspapers talking about the property market, the headline most people look at is what is happening to house prices. However, as 2 inContinue reading “Is the Sittingbourne Property Market Running Out of Steam?”

How far would you go to help your child get on in the world? Many Faversham parents move area to ensure their child gets into the best primary school or fund their university costs. Many of you reading this have even helped your children with the deposit for their first home from savings. However, IContinue reading “Would You Re-Mortgage Your Faversham Home to Help Your Child onto the Property Ladder?”

With grocery, energy and other household prices/costs rising and hitting everyone’s back pocket, inflation (rising prices) may feel like an unimportant issue when it comes to the cost of keeping a roof over your head. Yet nothing could be further from the truth for many Sittingbourne homeowners and Sittingbourne landlords. Because inflation over the long-termContinue reading “Sittingbourne Homeowners to Face Post-Lockdown Mortgage Rate Rise of £858 a Year”

The ‘Buy-To-Let’ Mortgage is celebrating its Silver Anniversary (25 years) this autumn. Isn’t it fascinating that a decision between a group of letting agents and bankers all that time ago to offer ‘Buy-To-Let’ (BTL) mortgages has changed the face of the Faversham (and national) property market? But has it been a good thing? Or hasContinue reading “Has Buy-to-Let Changed the Faversham Property Market?”

The stamp duty tax holiday is over, furlough finished at the end of September, unemployment is due to rise and inflation is rife … is this the end of the post lockdown Sittingbourne property boom? Surely, we are heading for house price correction? Forecasting what will happen in the Sittingbourne property market this Autumn mayContinue reading “Are Sittingbourne House Prices Set to Fall This Autumn?”