As 1 in 6 Stockport homes are selling within a fortnight of coming to market One of the most astounding things that has happened in the last 12 months was something that did not happen. Even after the country saw the deepest recession since the Great Freeze of 1709, with GDP dropping 28% in one [...]

So is it a good idea to rent in between moving home, to be chain-free? Moving home is said to be the third most stressful thing you can do, so if you can do anything to reduce that stress, so much the better? When buying your next Stockport home, being chain-free can certainly reduce your stress [...]

The Chancellor Rishi Sunak announced two initiatives to keep the Stockport property market firing on all cylinders into 2021. Firstly, the £500,000 zero-rate Stamp Duty band has been extended to the 30th June 2021. After then it will phase down to £250,000 for an additional three months, returning to the pre-pandemic levels on the 1stOctober [...]

Has there ever been a better time for Stockport home sellers? The Stockport property market, for people looking to sell, is at its sturdiest for at least the last five years with home buyers jumping onto the Stockport property ladder with abandon. Stockport house prices are anticipated to rise throughout 2021 after the Stamp Duty [...]

The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rishi Sunak, has stated the Stamp Duty Holiday for Stockport properties up to £500,000 will be extended from 31st March 2021 to the 30th June 2021; and to ensure we don’t have a cliff edge, from 1stJuly 2021, the Stamp Duty Holiday will apply only on properties up to £250,000 until the [...]

In Britain, there are 27,071,500 households, of which 17,044,450 are owned and 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, the average British homeowner moves every 16 years 5 months. [...]

With most Stockport families home schooling their children in lockdown and the forthcoming Stamp Duty Holiday deadline on the 31st March 2021, less Stockport properties have been coming onto the Stockport property market since the new year. This has prompted a 12% drop in the supply of Stockport homes for sale compared to October 2020. For the [...]

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. In return, the nobles and aristocrats would give the King [...]

Looking back at the Stockport property market for 2020, it certainly can be seen as a frenetic game of two halves, albeit with a very long half time in the spring. Between the General Election in mid-December and Christmas, many Stockport agents saw an unusually higher uplift in activity in the property market just as [...]