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WHAT’S THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A FLAT AND AN APARTMENT IN THE HEATONS?

The word ‘Apartment’ derives from the French word ‘Appartement', which comes from the Italian form of the word, ‘Appartamento’. The core of that Italian word ‘appartare’ means ‘to separate’, as in ‘separate a building’. The word comes from Roman times when housing costs were so expensive within the city walls [...]

By |2022-08-30T12:38:43+01:00August 30th, 2022|All Things The Heatons|

THE SHIFTING HEATONS PROPERTY MARKET

The Heatons property market is on the cusp of a tipping point. It’s a tipping point that will influence Heatons’ house prices, the number of properties available to buy, demand for those Heatons properties and the lives of every homeowner and the property-owning buy-to-let landlords in the Heatons. This shift [...]

By |2022-06-17T16:55:09+01:00June 17th, 2022|All Things The Heatons, Property Market News|

THE HEATONS HOMEOWNERSHIP ROCKETS BY 829 HOMES IN THE LAST 5 YEARS

The Heatons housing market over the last five years has behaved oddly.  The Heatons house prices are 32.9% higher than in 2017, even though during those five years, the British economy had the uncertainty of Brexit and the massive fall in GDP during the pandemic. Yet, a less observed trend [...]

By |2022-05-19T16:45:37+01:00May 19th, 2022|All Things The Heatons, Property Market News|

1 IN 59 HOMES ARE SITTING EMPTY IN THE HEATONS AREA

2,233 homes in the Stockport Council area are empty, which represents 1 in 59 homes. 1,879 of those have been empty for more than six months and are worth £511million. Why are those properties standing empty and deteriorating and why could that become an issue for the whole of Heatons? [...]

By |2022-03-11T08:27:28+00:00March 11th, 2022|All Things The Heatons|

HEATONS PEOPLE’S ADDICTION TO THEIR SPARE BEDROOMS?

The Housing Minister, Chris Pincher, has suggested older homeowners are “rattling around” in their homes as they are too big for them. He implied they are selfish and should sell up and move to a retirement home when he spoke to a committee in the House of Lords. He stated [...]

By |2022-01-19T11:02:42+00:00January 19th, 2022|All Things The Heatons, Property Market News|

HEATONS HOUSE PRICES – THE EFFECT OF RISING INFLATION

House prices tend to rise with inflation, so with the UK annual inflation hitting 4.2% last week, that’s good news, isn’t it? Yes and no – let me explain what it means for Heatons homeowners. The year-on-year cost of living rose by 4.2% in October, its highest rate in almost [...]

By |2021-12-10T11:14:22+00:00December 10th, 2021|All Things The Heatons|

THIS IS WHY THE HEATONS PROPERTY MARKET HASN’T RUN OUT OF STEAM

In recent articles on the Heatons property market, I have been talking a lot about house prices over the last 12 months and 5 years in the Heatons. When it comes to newspapers talking about the property market, the headline most people look at is what is happening to house [...]

By |2021-12-10T10:16:46+00:00December 7th, 2021|All Things The Heatons|

HEATONS HOMEOWNERS TO FACE POST-LOCKDOWN MORTGAGE RATE RISE OF £831 A YEAR

With grocery, energy and other household prices/costs rising and hitting everyone’s back pocket, inflation (rising prices) may feel like an unimportant issue when it comes to the cost of keeping a roof over your head. Yet nothing could be further from the truth for many Heatons homeowners and Heatons landlords. [...]

By |2021-11-12T12:36:24+00:00November 12th, 2021|All Things The Heatons, Property Market News|

CAN THE HEATONS HOUSE PRICES REALLY KEEP GOING UP?

The stamp duty tax holiday is over, furlough finished at the end of September, unemployment is due to rise and inflation is rife … is this the end of the post lockdown The Heatons property boom? Surely, we are heading for house price correction? Forecasting what will happen in The [...]

By |2021-11-16T17:46:24+00:00November 1st, 2021|All Things The Heatons, Property Market News|

Wages Rising by 8.3% pa – How Will This Affect the Heatons Property Market?

As they struggle to meet demand, Argos have had to increase the wages of their HGV drivers from £11.41 an hour to £15 an hour - a rise of 31.2% meaning their pay goes from £27k to £35k. Care home providers are offering signing-on bonuses of many thousands of pounds [...]

By |2021-10-06T09:57:10+01:00October 5th, 2021|All Things The Heatons, Property Market News|
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