The Semi-Detached House – the icon of middle-class aspiration, the pinnacle of liberalism yet at the same time compromised individuality, the ‘semi’ as it is colloquially termed is, for many Stockport homeowners, the highpoint of modern domestic bliss. Britain’s gift to architecture is the humble ‘Semi-Detached House’. This type of property has been exported around [...]

I know of many Stockport buy-to-let landlords who fell into property investing by accident. Many didn’t want to sell their family home when the Stockport housing market crashed in the Credit Crunch of 2009/10, yet still needed to move (often for work). They thought they would keep their Stockport family home in case they ever [...]

…and the three reasons why it will not be the catastrophic scenario some are predicting In the last few months, the Stockport (and UK) property market has resisted and flouted every economist’s prediction. With the economy a shadow of its former self, unemployment set to hit 11.9%, the Government on track to borrow nearly half a [...]