High Wycombe homebuyers and High Wycombe landlords purchasing residential property have saved £752,520 since the Chancellor reduced Stamp Duty on 8th July 2020, yet many more High Wycombe homebuyers could miss out. My analysis of properties sold in High Wycombe from the Land Registry between the...
Boris Johnson has attracted both praise and horror in equal measure with a new plan for 95% mortgages to help beleaguered first time buyers to get on the property ladder, but would that expose UK taxpayers to too much risk? In this article I discuss...
High Wycombe 2nd & 3rd Time Buyers Finding it Tougher (and Slower) to Move up the High Wycombe Property Ladder Post lockdown, the need for High Wycombe families who want bigger homes has meant High Wycombe homebuyers must now pay considerably more to trade up to...
Why Are Some Banks Reining In Over-Enthusiastic High Wycombe Homebuyers and Buy to Let Investors? The High Wycombe property market is an enigma and chock-full of contradictions. Notwithstanding an economic recession and forecasts of property values dropping, nobody seems to have informed the High Wycombe homeowners selling...
The buy-to-let market in High Wycombe is about to enter a challenging 12 to 24 months. Yet by looking back at the last recession and what is happening now, there are vital lessons all High Wycombe landlords can learn to protect themselves, and in fact...
The High Wycombe Property Market With only around 1 in 7 High Wycombe house sellers actually selling their home in the last month, High Wycombe sellers and buyers will need to continue to be pragmatic if the surprisingly strong current levels of activity in the High...
Roll the clock back 20 years and any self-respecting late 20/early 30 something would never say on their first date that they lived with their mum and dad. It was seen as a sign of immaturity being tied to your mother’s apron strings as a...
Forcing the private rental sector to change CoVid-19 Standing in the middle of a prominent high street pub at 9.01 pm on Saturday 21st March I was struck with the realisation that my life and the lives of my friends and family were about to change. As...
The 4,223 ‘Trapped Landlords’ of High Wycombe Going into lockdown in March, the Government proclaimed a ban on tenant evictions, pledging that no tenant in a private rented home, who had lost their wages due to Covid-19 would be kicked out of their private rented home...
On the 8th of July 2020, the Chancellor announced the first £500,000 of any property bought was exempt from stamp duty until 31st March 2021. This also included buy to let landlords (although they would still need to pay the additional 3% stamp duty level...