In Britain, there are 27,071,500 households, of which 17,044,450 are owned, which are worth a total of £3,925,865,212,950 (£3.92 trillion). Over the last 5 years, an average of 86,096 properties sell each month, meaning just over a million UK households move home per year. Therefore,......
Over the last six months, the High Wycombe Property Market has been flourishing. As soon as an estate agents ‘For Sale’ flag went up, neighbours would be checking out Rightmove to see the internal pictures and compare the asking price to their own home (go......
What does this mean for High Wycombe property owners? With most High Wycombe families home schooling their children in lockdown and the forthcoming Stamp Duty Holiday deadline on the 31st March 2021, less High Wycombe properties have been coming onto the High Wycombe property market since the......
Most people pay Stamp Duty Tax when they buy a property, house, apartment or other land and buildings over a particular price in the UK. The Chancellor, Rishi Sunak (quickly followed suit by the Welsh and Scottish Governments), announced last July that Stamp Duty was partially......
When William the Conqueror invaded our fair shores in 1066, like all good kings, he needed to buy loyalty and raise cash to build his castles and armies. He did this by feudal law system and granted all the faithful nobles and aristocrats with land.......
Christmas Eve brought the news that Boris Johnson had conclusively agreed on a Brexit deal for the UK with the European Union. This gave optimism that the economic turmoil of leaving the EU would be radically reduced, yet what will this ‘trade deal’ do to the......
12 months ago, the unemployment rate in High Wycombe stood at 1.5% of the working population, yet with Coronavirus hitting the UK, what impact will this rise in unemployment have on the High Wycombe property market? As I have discussed a number of times in......
Roll the clock back to April 2020, and major financial economists and property market commenters were sounding the alarm. The very best-case scenario was a 5% drop in property values by the end of the year, and most were in the 10% to 15% range.......
… and the three reasons why it will not be the catastrophic scenario some are predicting In the last few months, the High Wycombe (and UK) property market has resisted and flouted every economist’s prediction. With the economy a shadow of its former self, unemployment......
If the proposals were adopted in full, some High Wycombe landlords would pay £13,000 less Capital Gains Tax than they would currently The government borrowed £394bn this financial year (April ‘20 to April ‘21). This figure does not include the cost of November lockdowns and......