Lenders have stepped up the battle to cut mortgage rates for potential home buyers, with one company recently unveiling a five-year deal with a rate of under 2% - a record low in the mortgage market. HSBC will be launching the five-year fixed-rate mortgage with a rate...
Today is New Home Owners’ Day – the perfect day to celebrate your new home. Take the time to take a step back from the inevitable stresses of unpacking, reporting your change of address and thinking about money, and enjoy your new home. Perhaps invite some friends...
Naylors were delighted to see that Market Harborough has been named as one of the happiest places to live in Britain by The Times newspaper (April 20th 2015). Living in Market towns The newspaper, in its Bricks & Mortar supplement, highlighted the top 15 market...
It was driving back from a viewing on Saturday morning along Northampton Road that made me realise how fortunate we are to live and work in Market Harborough. I had just met a young couple who had not visited the area before; one of them works in Peterborough, and the...
The spring and summer are without doubt the best time of year to be marketing residential and rural properties. Everything is starting to look at its best with the grass growing and leaves returning to the trees. It is also the time that the most determined buyers...
Once again the Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee has opted to hold interest rates at 0.5%. This has been the case since March 2009 or to put it another way the interested rate have remained at this level for the last 32 months. There has been further...
It has been well documented in this column over the last few months that the market is extremely difficult and that buyers are fewer in number and are determined to drive a hard bargain. As the market conditions are likely to stay this way over the next few winter...
Anyone who regularly follows this article will have pieced together the fact that the autumn has been disappointing from the sales prospective. There are many reasons for this which have previously been explained albeit from the difficulty of acquiring lending,...
Perhaps the new year is a time for some predictions as to how the residential property markets are going to perform during 2010. The residential sales markets I believe are going to continue to experience low volumes of sales and listings. We are in fact already...
We will all have changed our clocks last weekend and are now getting use to the nights drawing in. There is also the change in the weather and the sense that winter is now on it ways. We have even started to experience the first frosts. How does this changing of...