It is the time of year when we can reflect on how the last four quarters have performed. The adjacent chart splits the total number of sales for all property types into quarters. Not surprisingly, last quarter of 2015 was the strongest quarter with 276 sales (35.8%) in M20. The [...]

The percentage of people employed in various industry sectors is often a good indicator of the distinct character of an area. In M20, the largest number of jobs were in Health, taking up 17.1% of jobs. Education had the second largest number of jobs with 15.7% of jobs.  

The last 18 months have seen a seismic shift in the underlying dynamics of the UK economy. While the long term effects of Brexit on property prices remain to be seen, price levels in M20 remain robust, as the adjoining chart shows. Prices for flats have increased 11.5% since January [...]

A property’s desirability is often a popular subject when we are talking to homeowners and local investors. Sure, you will find that Kirsty and Phil are right, and it is all about “location, location, location”, but the savvy property hunter has something else on their minds these days, and that [...]

• 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 tenant fees in his [...]

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 the rise of local [...]