If you haven’t already heard, first time buyers will NOT pay stamp duty up to £300,000 with immediate affect. We are still waiting on clarification if this applies to people who have already exchanged. This could save some first time buyers up to £5,000, which will certainly help people moving [...]
Starting on November 30th – the big switch on day – Didsbury’s favourite independents will stay open till 7.30 with festive nibbles and treats! Keep your Didsbury Christmas Card with you and receive stamps for shopping local. Three stamps in a week and you can enter into a weekly prize draw. Tasty Treats: For [...]
Yep - its fast approaching and we can't hold off much longer! Christmas starts here! Join us for the big lights switch-on! You know the place – outside the library, in the heart of the village. As per tradition, Santa arrives in Didsbury in style – no boring old sleigh for [...]
There are 4 million children who live in poverty across the UK, and for these families buying Christmas presents is a luxury they can’t afford. That’s why Key 103 has joined up with Cash for Kids and launched Mission Christmas. We are delighted to announce that Julian Wadden are taking [...]
Home sizes are a vital gauge of the character of housing stock in a locality. The chart here might surprise you a bit as lots of people think that everyone lives in the same kind of home as them but there are large minorities of people living different types of [...]
An analysis of monthly changes in house prices should always be taken with a pinch of salt, particularly when looking at a very local area. To try to strip out some of the nuances, we've displayed flats and houses separately but you'll see the usual amount of volatility.
The quarterly sales chart for the local area provides a detailed overview on how the market has performed in the last couple of years. Here we show the total number of property transactions every quarter. This is a useful way to look at how market liquidity has changed since the [...]
On the face of it, buying a home is considered to be a complicated and worrying process, but it does not need to be. We can guide you through the process and can offer expert mortgage advice specific to your circumstances. Buying a home takes a number of weeks, as there [...]
If you venture online, pick up a paper, or watch the news, any mention of the property market in the UK comes with a measure of doom and gloom these days. However, interest rates are still very low and are not likely to rocket up, so it’s not a remotely [...]
Commuting patterns are a significant barometer of the profile of people in a property market. For example in areas where most people travel to work by car, there tend to be more even property price distributions across the local market. On the other hand when people mostly travel by train [...]