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 [...]

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, [...]