The 1st July 1948 heralded a new dawn in how property was built, as the Town & Country Planning Act 1947 came into force, meaning no property could be built without the say so of the local authority. Now, Boris Johnson has announced a substantial change to that, by in effect, ending planning permission.
Read MoreThe Chancellor announced on Wednesday 8th July in his mini Budget some interesting news for Dartford homeowners and Dartford landlords. Rishi Sunak is going to give ‘The Green Homes Grant’ of up to £5,000 to cover two-thirds of the costs of environmentally friendly upgrades to your Dartford property, with the homeowner covering the other third.
Read MoreThere is no doubt that Coronavirus will affect the Dartford Property Market, but just how?
The ensuing economic challenges are going to impact the Dartford (and UK) property market, yet no one knows the real answer. The newspapers eulogise different opinions, but that's all they are – opinions and everybody's got a different opinion. The truth of the matter is we don’t know and won’t know for another few months at least, if not more?
Read MoreThe British are infatuated with owning their own property and politicians know that. Margaret Thatcher used it as a vote winner in 1979 when she allowed council house tenants to buy their own home. Coming to the present day, Boris Johnson’s Conservative government have anxieties that the Brits have not been buying nearly enough homes lately and, as with all countries in the world, the British property market was put ‘on ice’ for several months to help contain the Coronavirus, exacerbating the problem.
Read MoreOne of my Dartford landlords contacted me last week from Crayford, after he had spoken to a landlord friend of his from Temple Hill. He told me they were deliberating the Dartford property market and neither of them could make their mind up if it was time to either sell or buy property following Covid-19. His friend said he would wait to see what would happen to property prices following Covid-19, yet my landlord wanted to pick my brain in order to help him decide what to do.
Read MoreWhat have we learned in the first month?
From talking to most of the Dartford estate and letting agents and our own findings, it might surprise many of you that new enquiries from homebuyers, tenants, landlords and home sellers have been at record levels since lockdown was lifted from the property market in mid-May.
Read MoreIn 2019, the private rented sector accounted for just over four and a half million households or 19.9% of UK households, no change from the year before. Interesting, when compared to the proportion of private rented households in the 1980’s and 1990’s, when the proportion of private rented households was stable at around 9.5% to 10.8%.
Read MoreIsn’t it funny that nobody boasts they are a buy to let landlord anymore? Roll the clock back to the early millennium and you couldn’t go to the local golf club or shop at a Waitrose without someone dropping buy to let into the conversation as easily and as often as the weather.
Read MoreShould you wait to buy your first home in Dartford or buy now? What sort of mortgages are available? What sort of deposit is required? These are questions all Dartford buyers are asking at the moment, yet this week I would like to focus on Dartford first-time buyers and what it means directly and indirectly to Dartford homeowners looking to move up the Dartford property ladder and Dartford buy to let landlords.
Read MoreDespite Government regulations that have been in place since the 26 March 2020, when in-person viewings were made illegal, Dartford buy to let landlords have during that time been chomping at the bit to build their property empire by looking at buying additional properties for their Dartford buy to let portfolio.
Read MoreThe time for a change for all of us is now, so I am delighted to announce I am no longer part of Keller Williams and I am now going solo and running as Garylintorn.com Estate Agents.
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