Driving a Hard Bargain
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...
Rental Properties Take Off
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,...
New Year Property Resolution
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...
Winter in front of us all
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...
Is now a good time to buy?
As we all continue to speculate about the state of the economy, the oldest dilemma continues. You have found the right property - is now a good time to buy? This is a question that all homeowner wanting to move on to, or move up, the housing ladder have had to ask...
How can I make my property stand out?
There have been between 700 and 1000 properties on the market for sale at any one moment through the Market Harborough estate agents over the last few years. With this sort of completion what can you do the make your property standout? The importance of making your...
Energy assessments – are they worth the fuss?
Anyone marketing or renting a property in the last few months should have been visited by a DEA, not a drug enforcement agent, but a Domestic Energy Assessor. What it all about and is it worth it you might well have thought. The starting point to this issue is the...