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 [...]

Over the last twelve months we've seen pretty strong performance in the local market. We wanted to see how different property types have performed, so we indexed the values at the start of the period. Property data updates quite slowly, so we've estimated the last 3 months.

This chart nicely reveals how sales levels have played out over the last seven months in our area. We're looking at a relatively tight area over relatively short periods of time, so you don't get the nice smooth patterns you'd see using annualised analyses or at higher levels of geography. [...]

Has someone who has just sold their home ever told you about the ‘golden rules’ you should abide by to get a quick sale? Perhaps you have heard comments like, ‘catch the property season’, ‘spend money to make money’ and ‘price high and accept low’. Unfortunately, achieving the optimum sale [...]

Life cycle profile is a useful indicator of the complexion of residents in a locality. Some areas, like inner cities and built-up areas, have lots of young single people who live in flat shares or alone. Most of the suburban parts of the country are filled up with families. Some [...]

We've used a donut chart (excuse the American spelling) to illustrate the mix of properties that have sold in the last 12 months. Given the profile of the housing stock in the area, there's nothing too surprising here, but it's interesting to see how the different types of properties are [...]