Over the last six months, The Heatons Property Market has been flourishing. As soon as an estate agents “For Sale” flag went up, neighbours would be checking out Rightmove to see the internal pictures and compare the asking price to their own home (go on ... admit you do that [...]
Most people pay Stamp Duty Tax when they buy a property, house, apartment or other land and buildings over a particular price in the UK. The Chancellor, Rishi Sunak, (quickly followed suit by the Welsh and Scottish Governments) announced last July that Stamp Duty was partially being suspended on all English [...]
Christmas Eve brought the news that Boris Johnson had conclusively agreed on a Brexit deal for the UK with the European Union. This gave optimism that the economic turmoil of leaving the EU would be radically reduced, yet what will this ‘trade deal’ do to the value of your Heatons home [...]
Click here to view this property recently marketed by Gascoigne Halman on Foxhill Court, Heaton Mersey. The property is immaculately presented, perfect for investors who want to get a tenant in straight away with a minimal void period. Features about this property are:- Ideal Location, close to the M60 motorway Immaculately [...]
I know we are biased but we think The Heatons has just got a little bit more special with the arrival of Lauren Battersby. Lauren joins us a Trainee Lettings Negotiator at our busy Heaton Moor Office. Having previously worked at our Stockport Exchange office, Lauren has now joined the [...]
I wanted to share with you a property that has recently graced the market in The Heatons, which has caught my eye as a potential great buy to let. You could even go as far as to say; I've fallen in love with it! pun intended. The property is positioned [...]
Roll the clock back to April 2020, and major financial economists and property market commenters were sounding the alarm. The very best-case scenario was a 5% drop in property values by the end of the year, and most were in the 10% to 15% range. They forewarned the Covid-19 stimulated [...]
If the proposals were adopted in full, some Heatons landlords would pay £11,000 less Capital Gains Tax than they would currently The government borrowed £394bn this financial year (April ‘20 to April ’21). This figure does not include the cost of the November lockdown and support measures, which means the [...]
With the banks reducing the number of low deposit mortgages (i.e. deposit of 10% and below) since Covid-19 hit in the spring, this has meant that the number of The Heatons first-time buyers has been decreasing quickly, meaning many of those would-be The Heatons buyers wanting to make the first step on [...]
Boris Johnson has attracted both praise and horror in equal measure with a new plan for 95% mortgages to help beleaguered first time buyers to get on the property ladder, but would that expose UK taxpayers to too much risk? In this article I discuss the implications of what that [...]
