Blogs
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How Often to you move?
Moving home is the ultimate double-edged sword. Of course, you get to enjoy new neighbourhood, perhaps a bigger home, and all the excitement that comes with making your Lincoln home your own. Yet to get that point, there is the weeks and weeks of changing utility suppliers, weeks of packing…
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Lincoln Home Moves Hit Record High in June
as 184.7% more people sell in June compared to the Lincoln area 10-year average June 2021 was the busiest month ever for UK estate agents, home removal companies and conveyancers since monthly records began, as HMRC logged 213,120 residential transactions in June, a jump of more than 216% nationally on the…
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Why Savvy Lincoln Buy-to-Let Landlords Don’t Use 10-Year Mortgages.
And the reason you shouldn’t either I know of many Lincoln buy-to-let landlords who fell into property investing by accident. Many didn’t want to sell their family home when the Lincoln housing market crashed in the Credit Crunch of 2009/10, yet still needed to move (often for work). They…
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Staff relaxing on company time!
Walter was caught out shirking his Check Out responsibilities yesterday in Coleby by sunbathing in the garden instead! #walterbear #northwoodlincoln #lincoln #lettings #rentals
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£323,520 – ‘Wood’ You Pay That For A Lincoln Terraced House?
The value of an average Lincoln terraced house has increased in value by £13,185 in the last 12 months, an increase in value of 8.64%. Yet the costs of building a Lincoln home have shot up even more in the last 12 months, meaning the price of Lincoln new…
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Is Lincoln Heading Towards a House Price Crash?
Lincoln house prices rose by 1.4% last month, according to the Land Registry. This means the annual rate of house price growth in Lincoln has increased to 7.1%. Looking at the national figures, many people were concerned the UK property market was overheating as spring saw annual growth of 9.9%, the highest…
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Arrears
Lincoln Buy-to-Let Landlords Owed £1,615,303 in Unpaid Rent. Rogues or Saviours? There is no getting away from the fact that the rise in the number of buy-to-let properties in Lincoln has been nothing short of astonishing over the last twenty years. As a result, many in the press have said…
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Your Great-Great Lincoln Grandfather Would Have Only Paid £269 8s 9½d for his Lincoln Home in 1871
Would it surprise you even more when I said the ratio of house prices to wages are still lower today when compared to 1871? Yes, you read that correctly, as a proportion of average wages British house prices are 17.6% proportionally cheaper today than they were in 1871. I…
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Will the Lincoln Property Market Continue to Boom?
All the signs are that the Lincoln housing market is sat on good foundations, yet one key hazard could still scupper the market. ‘UK Property Prices Rising at Record Levels’ is the headline of many newspapers. In the last few weeks, the Halifax reported they had grown by 6.5% in…
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Will the Lincoln Property Market Continue to Boom?
As 1 in 6 Lincoln homes are selling within a fortnight of coming to market. One of the most astounding things that has happened in the last 12 months was something that did not happen. Even after the country saw the deepest recession since the Great Freeze of 1709 with…
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Lincoln Property Market: Is it Time to Stamp Out Stamp Duty?
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 property…
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2,313 Lincoln Homeowners to be ‘Unchained’ From Toxic Leasehold Agreements in Biggest Shake-up of Property Law in Decades
When William the Conqueror invaded our fair shores in 1066, like all good kings, he needed to buy loyalty and raise cash to build his castles and armies. He did this by feudal law system and granted all the faithful nobles and aristocrats with land. In return, the nobles and…