👂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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
The autumn of 2022 saw economic and political instability with the resignation of Boris Johnson as Prime Minister and the ill-fated Liz Truss 44-day premiership. Now as we go into 2023, the economic and political turmoil has subdued, offering a greater feeling of stability in money markets. So, on the…
More Lincoln homes are now coming up for sale. This is excellent news for Lincoln homebuyers and landlords because as properties are no longer flying off the shelf as they did last year, the number of properties available to buy is beginning to return to long-term averages. This means there…
Some of you reading this will be old enough to remember the 1970s – the bell-bottom trousers, the huge collars, frayed jeans, disco glitter balls, maxi dresses, midi skirts but above everything else – HYPER-INFLATION. With inflation currently standing at 11.1%, many of us envy the last few years…
The issue of new housebuilding in the UK stirs strong emotions. Many believe their local areas are turning into construction zones, with too many homes being built, disrupting the character of towns and villages. But is this perception grounded in reality? The Labour government, which came into power in the…
This question was posed by one of my nephews, when they dropped over for a family quiz over the Christmas break (doesn’t that seem an age away now?). I didn’t know the answer off the top of my head, yet I promised I would find out. So, over the Christmas…
As an experienced estate agent based in Lincoln, I like to monitor the UK and Lincoln property market trends. Therefore, I will start by analysing the 2024 property market (both nationally and locally) and then give my predictions for 2025. In 2024, the UK property market recorded 1,230,136 homes sold…