Blogs
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Buying a Lincoln Home is Still £72 a Year Cheaper Than Renting
With mortgage rates tripling over the last 12 months, one could be forgiven for thinking buying a Lincoln home as a first-time buyer would out of the question. Yet, what if I told you, it is £72 a year cheaper to buy a Lincoln home as a first-time buyer than…
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Unveiling the Secrets of Lincoln's Housing Market: Insights from the 2021 Census
The property market is one of the most important economic indicators, as it can significantly impact the prosperity of both the local and national economy. Recently, new data from the Census 2021 has become available that sheds light on seldom discussed areas of property, such as the types of properties…
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Is it Now or Never for the Lincoln Property Market?
👂Audio Version – www.walters-move.me/Audio 🎬Video Version – www.walters-move.me/Vlog428 Traditionally, the first four months of the year are usually an estate agents’ busiest time for house sales. However, if the last three years have taught us anything, nothing is ‘normal’ and ‘usual’ anymore. The Lincoln property market is finding that with the…
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New tax rules for buy-to-let landlords from 2026
We at Walters Lincoln want to make you aware of some significant changes that are coming into effect from April 2026. The UK Government is introducing Making Tax Digital (MTD) for Income Tax, which will affect how landlords report their income tax to HMRC. The original plan was for Landlords…
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Cautious Optimism in the Lincoln Property Market
As the British and Lincoln property market navigates the ongoing economic turmoil, many Lincoln homeowners and landlords may feel uncertain about the future. However, up-to-date data suggests that the 2023 property crash predicted by the many newspapers and the usual clickbait doom-mongers in the lead-up to Christmas on social media,…
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Is your Lincoln home bigger than 925 sq ft?
Lincoln homeowners – do you know how big your Lincoln home is? What is the square footage of your Lincoln home? Don’t worry, most of us don’t – yet it could be fundamental as Lincoln home buyers search for new homes. Us Brits are obsessed with our homes, yet most…
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50% of Lincoln house sellers in 2022 had only been in their old home on average 3 years and 14 weeks
The share of Brits moving each year has been declining since the late 1980s (when at one stage, people moved every eight years), yet since the pandemic’s beginning, something has appeared to upset that trend. Newspaper stories and social media posts painted a picture of homeowners moving from the city centres…
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Is Buy-to-Let in Lincoln Still Worth the Risk?
Over the last five years, life has become a little trickier for Lincoln landlords, with changes to their taxation status, mortgage interest relief and an additional 3% stamp duty for a buy-to-let property and has made lots of Lincoln landlords ask themselves: ‘Is buy-to-let in Lincoln still worth the risk?’ Regarding…
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Lincoln Property Market Update: February 2023
With the Bank of England raising interest rates and inflation high, what is happening in the Lincoln property market? Are properties selling in Lincoln? And if so, what is selling? What will happen to the value of your Lincoln home? Read the article to find out what is happening to…
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LINCOLN BABY BOOMERS AND THEIR 684 SPARE “SPARE” BEDROOMS
An additional 2,050 spare bedrooms have been locked out of the Lincoln housing market since 2011 as Britain’s ageing population means the country’s stock of homes is being used more unproductively. The number of spare bedrooms in Lincoln between 2011 and 2021 increased from 39,577 to 41,627. The number of Lincoln households…
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Is Mrs Thatcher’s Dream of Home Ownership Still Possible?
In her first conference speech as the Tory’s new leader in 1975, the grocer’s daughter from Grantham, Margaret Thatcher, asserted her conviction in a ‘property-owning democracy’. Although Thatcher didn’t conceive the saying – (that credit belonged to Conservative MP Noel Skelton in 1923), it encapsulated what she thought Britain should…
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Lincoln Property Market Holding Up Despite Doom and Gloom in the Newspapers
The Lincoln housing market over the last three months is now becoming more ‘normal’ after the last couple of years of insane demand when the lockdowns started a race for space! Even with the blackening economic doom-mongers forecasting a harsh slowdown in the British property market, the number of people…