Our February Market Comment It’s well known that confidence is key to a healthy property market. Or it used to be at least. The pandemic didn’t dent it – quite the opposite in fact, with the average house price having risen over 11% in the past year (Source: Nationwide). Could issues such as rapidly rising energy prices, an unstable government, uncertainty in the Ukraine, and

A year ago, we predicted that 2021 would not be able to sustain the 7.3% house price growth experienced in 2020. Even the most bullish economists predicted no more than a 4.5% increase for 2021, yet, according to the Nationwide, 2021 closed with a 10.8% increase in the average UK property price.  Who’d have thought, during a severe pandemic, and as the effects of

Thursday 16/12/2021 The Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee has today announced a rise in the bank base rate from 0.1% to 0.25%. This was surprising considering that they held off doing so last month when conditions we not dissimilar. Nevertheless, with inflation soaring over 5% (the target is 2%), the bank was bound eventually to do something in response to rising prices and

We are always happy to go the extra mile for our clients and love when they drop us a note to say we are doing a good job. Thank you again Andrea! It was a pleasure to work on your behalf and sucessfully sell your property 🙂