• 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 [...]

The distance travelled to work in a given area is an indicator of the area’s transportation links. It can also show if an area has job opportunities locally. In M20, 71.6% of the local workforce travel less than 10km to get to work. This is 9.3% higher than the average [...]

The changes in stamp duty and the Brexit vote have made the last 12 months an interesting one. There have been a total of 1,148 sales and we can see that volumes have increased by 19.8% since August 2015. This is stronger than the North West region and the national [...]

Over the last year, every property that was sold in M20 has fallen into one of seven price bands. The adjacent bar chart illustrates this interesting pattern which shows that the £100k-£200k price band had the largest number of sales (359), followed by the £200k-£300k price band (287).  

In M20 the majority of households are classified as "wealthy" (38.5% of all households). The next biggest wealth band is "more comfortable" (36.1% of all households).  

You would be forgiven for thinking that Nobel Prize winner Bob Dylan was talking about the UK property market when he sang, “the times, they are a changin'”. As agents in M20, we have seen it all in the property market. But one overarching fact is [...]