An analysis of commuting preferences in Didsbury shows that the majority of people use a car to get to work (56.9%). This is followed by bus (21.7%), and then on foot (7.7%). It will be interesting to monitor how this pattern changes over time given the trend in Didsbury and [...]
It’s 5.50am as I start to type this article and David Dimbleby has just announced the UK will be leaving the EU as the final votes are counted. As most of the polls suggested a Remain Vote, it came as a surprise to most people, including the City. The Pound [...]
In the last 12 months, flats have accounted for 40.7% of all transactions making this the most common type of property on the market in M20 (936 in total). Over the same period semis accounted for 32.9%, terraces accounted for 21.7% and detached properties provided 4.2% of transactions.
A standard measure of a full working week is about 48 hours. That is what the EU uses in it’s ‘Working Time Directive’ to ensure employees are not being over-stretched. In Didsbury, 86.2% of full- or part-time workers work those hours or fewer. That means 13.8% work more than that, [...]
A quarterly analysis of the last four years achieved sales prices from the Land Registry show some interesting patterns in Didsbury. Achieved sales prices of flats have increased by 0.3% per quarter since 2012. This compares with 2.2% for terraces, 0.8% for semis and -0.8% for detached properties. In total, [...]
At the time of writing, a £10 bet on the good people of the UK voting to leave the EU would yield a profit of £22.50, whereas the same bet on staying-in would return just £3.30. For those of you who don’t regularly have a flutter, that means the likelihood [...]
Didsbury homeowners and buy-to-let landlords in M20 should be pleased to know that prices have risen recently. Our latest analysis of the Didsbury property market shows that month-on-month, M20 prices for flats have increased by 2.7%, whilst the year-on-year figures showed that prices for flats in M20 have increased by [...]
The number of sales in a given area is a powerful measure of the buoyancy of local housing markets. There were a total of 938 transactions in M20 in the last calendar year. This is an increase of 46.8% over the year. In comparison, there was an increase of 35.2% [...]
In M20, the largest proportion of residents (36.8%) are of ‘Professional occupations’ (Prof.). This is 20.4% higher than the average in the North West. Next most common in M20, with 16.2% of all residents, are ‘Associate professional and technical occupations’ (Technical). This is 4.7% higher than the average in the [...]
Sales as a percentage of total housing stock available is a useful measure of an area’s turnover. Of the total private stock in M20, 4.5% of properties changed hands in the last calendar year. This is 0.7% more than in the North West, where the turnover was 3.8%, and 0.4% [...]
