To calculate what I consider is a fair and proper House Price Index for Hounslow,
I initially needed to decide on a starting place for the index. I have chosen 2008….
For the last 10 years, every private rental property must have an Energy-Performance-Certificate (EPC) rating. The property is given an energy rating, very similar to those on washing machines and fridges with the rainbow coloured graph, of between A to G (A being the most efficient and G the worst). New legislation comes in to force next spring (2018)
In the credit crunch of 2008/9 the rate of home moving plunged to its lowest level ever. In […]
As I mentioned in a previous article, the average house price in Hounslow is 10.9 times the average annual Hounslow salary. This is higher than the last peak of 2008, when the ratio was 8.92. A number of City commentators anticipated that in the ambiguity that trailed the Brexit vote, UK (and hence Hounslow) property prices might drop like a stone…
I recently read a report by the Yorkshire Building Society that 54% of the country has seen wages (salaries) rise faster than property prices in the last 10 years. The report said that in the Midlands and North, salaries had outperformed property prices since 2007, whilst in other parts of the UK, especially in the South, the opposite has happened and property prices have outperformed salaries quite noticeably.
As regular readers of my blog know, I always like to find out what has actually happened locally in Hounslow.
Moving to a bigger home is something Hounslow people with growing young families aspire to. Many people […]
The mind-set and tactics you employ to buy your first Hounslow buy to let property needs to be different to the tactics and methodology of buying a home for yourself to live in.
I was having a lazy Saturday morning, Kids were watching Good dinosaur on TV and I was reading […]