Thu 07 Jan 2021
Fairer, more secure and an end to a life-sentence of misery for 4.5m leaseholders. Some of the biggest reforms to English property law for forty years have been revealed by the government as it vows to end complex leaseholds costs.…
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Fri 01 Jan 2021
Annual house price growth accelerated further in December, reaching a six year high of 7.3%, up from 6.5% in the previous month, according to the latest Nationwide house price index.…
Thu 17 Dec 2020
The government has confirmed that it “does not plan” to extend the temporary relief offered to property buyers via the stamp duty holiday. Estate agents, surveyors and solicitors were among those hoping that the chancellor Rishi Sunak would extend the deadline beyond 31 March to help stimulate the housing market next year.…
Tue 17 Nov 2020
There are a wide range of influences that can prompt people to buy or sell in the run up to Christmas. With market momentum showing no signs of slowing down, we've pulled together the key reasons to explain what's behind property market activity at this time of the year.…
Fri 06 Nov 2020
The trend of buyers apparently fleeing the city to get more for their money in the country has hit the buffers - at least if vendors want to go to a National Park.…
Wed 14 Oct 2020
The data, which looks at the average asking price for two-bedroom flats and three-bedroom houses across the regions, shows that asking prices in Yorkshire and The Humber have risen by more than any other region since the market re-opened.…
Fri 09 Oct 2020
Shaw & Co Estate Agents, ran a campaign this summer to raise money to help the NHS charities, during the COVID pandemic. The campaign ran from 1st June till the 31st August 2020, on all new sales instructions which came through our NHS “help the hero’s” advertising.…
Wed 30 Sep 2020
The latest market analysis from Rightmove has revealed that there are nearly 40% more sales currently going through the buying and selling process compared to this time last year, leading to congestion of sales in progress. Arguably spurred on by lockdown, the trend of up-sizing to a larger home has continued at pace over the past month, leading to record asking prices in the second-stepper sector, made up of three- or four-bedroom homes.…