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Southampton Property Market … the Rollercoaster of the last Decade
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- 26 February 2020
Ah the 2010’s, the tens, the teens - I am not sure what we are supposed to call the decade that has just gone. No matter what it was called, the last decade was a tough one, so does it really matter that we never really got around to giving it a name? Some might say, whatever one calls it, coming to an end is the most fundamental job any teen (and I refer to all humans) could possibly do!
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Conveyancing Explained
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- 26 February 2020
The home buying process is a long and arduous task at the best of times and perhaps the most complex part is the legal aspect. All the various searches, looking for Chancel Liability or areas of flood risk to discussions on flying freeholds and other complicated legal jargon are enough to give you sleepless nights. Luckily there is an area of the legal profession which specifically deals with these aspects for you: Conveyancing. In this article we will cover some of the main duties that a conveyancer will carry out for you and explain some of the terminology for you.
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Will There Be a ‘Boris Bounce' For the Southampton Property Market?
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- 26 February 2020
The Halifax announced in early January that there was a Boris Bounce in the national property market as they stated national property values soared 1.7% in December 2019 - the biggest rise since the 1.9% month on month rise in February 2007 (a few months before the Global Financial Crisis aka the Credit Crunch). Get the flags out - all hail Boris as the Conservatives gain their landslide general election triumph - the Boris Bounce is here … or is it?
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Springtime selling - 9 tips to get you moving
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- 6 February 2020
After a winter of short, dark days sitting on the sofa working their way through the bottomless tub of Christmas ‘Celebrations’, home-hunters are hungry for a change. Spring is on the horizon, the most salient time of year for house sales. With this in mind the team at Belvoir have put together a selection of nine tips to get you moving this springtime.
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The £3.4 billion mortgage debt of Southampton homeowners
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- 10 January 2020
Irrespective of the shenanigans and political goings on in Westminster recently, the housing market (for the time being anyway) shows a striking resilience, fostered by the on-going wide-ranging monetary policy of the Bank of England. With interest rates and unemployment low, UKc is heading into 2020 in reasonable condition. Additionally, despite the UK’s new homes industry improving its year on year new build figures (building 173,660 new homes this year to date - notably 8% more new homes than at the same time last year), there has been an unequal increase in demand for housing, especially in the most thriving areas of the Country.
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Create first impressions that last
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- 6 January 2020
Seven seconds. That’s all the time you have in which to make a good first impression. During that brief timeframe, we create an indelible impression of ourselves.
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The money to buy a new iPhone11 represents just over a seventh of a Southampton first-time buyers mortgage deposit
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- 27 December 2019
Southampton landlords please, please, please take heed!
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- 16 December 2019
We had a potentially life-threatening situation in one of our managed properties last week. The tenant, his wife and two young children were woken in the middle of the night by the co2 alarm going off
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